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Lifestyle

Inspiration for elevated living: the best in food, drinks, home, travel, health, entertainment & more.

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Lifestyle
The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
By Cool Material
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter
Lifestyle
It’s Time to Upgrade Your Gas Station Lighter

These 5 lighters turn a disposable necessity into a piece of EDC you’ll actually want to carry.

By Beau Hayhoe
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Lifestyle
Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

A guide to the galleries, murals, sculptures, and musical performances worth seeking out between beach days.

By Cool Material
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington
Lifestyle
This 114-Mile Bike Route Is One of the Best Ways to See Washington

A three-day ride along former railways takes you through the Cascades and all the way into Seattle.

By Brandon Withrow
Transportation
Tesla-Powered Porsche 912

David Bernardo of Zelectric Motors and Michael Bream of EV West are just two guys who love vintage VWs and Porsches from the '50s and '60s. The two men started to build electric VW Beetles that interested them but not many else. And then Tesla took off, and the rest…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Velox Electric Off-Road Skateboards

Though we chalk up electric skateboards as another way to quickly and painfully kill ourselves, they certainly add another level of fun to outdoor trail sports. Velox makes two models that can take pretty much anything you throw at them thanks to heavy-duty and independently articulating shocks, all-terrain wheels, and…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Andy Warhol BMW M1 Art Car

There's no denying that BMW makes gorgeous machines in their own right. The BMW Art Car Project started in 1975 transformed them into rolling works of art when founder and French racecar driver Hervé Poulain tapped artists to create works right on the cars. Plenty of famous artists have worked…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
French’s Mustard Teamed up with Coolhaus to Make Mustard Ice Cream

The whole hoopla surrounding every day being "National Some-Kind-Of-Food Day" is all a bit ridiculous, but that's the world we live in these days. This Saturday is National Mustard Day which is even more ridiculous because mustard isn't even a food, but whatever, bring on the shenanigans. Popular ice cream…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
Land Rover BackPacker

The future of land transportation is wide open. EVs, autonomous vehicles, remote-controlled vehicles, you name it. This unique travel-friendly four-wheeler is known as the Land Rover BackPacker, a concept created by German transportation designer Edwin Senger that "is inspired by the necessity of reduction in today's consumerist world." It's minimalist…

By Amos Kwon
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