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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
Misc
Alfaro Dal Farra Kawasaki KXF450 3D Core

This dirt bike makes the most of 3D printing tech and manages to pull off a cyborg-esque look with its transparent pieces. Former motocross pro Alvaro Dal Farra took a stock 2019 Kawasaki KX 450 F and used HP multi-jet fusion technology 3D printing by Skorpion Engineering to create the…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Curtiss Motorcycles Hades

The Hades electric motorcycle kind of defies description with echoes of steampunk, executive den, silver bullet, and rotary phone dial all mashed into one seriously cool moto. The Hades was designed by J.T. Nesbitt of Confederate Motorcycles fame, and this might be his most glorious creation. Even though it's described…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
‘The Shining’ LEGO Trailer by kreimkouk

This hilarious, albeit still creepy stop motion LEGO trailer for a nearly 40-year old film feels fresh and rightly timed before the "Doctor Sleep" sequel hits this November. Brilliantly and meticulously created by YouTuber kreimkouk, who has done his fair share of LEGO trailers, LEGO The Shining has 2,130 stop…

By Amos Kwon
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Food
The World’s Most Expensive and Rarest Japanese Whisky Collection

There are a lot of whiskies that have piqued our interest over the years while writing all of the whisky bucket lists, but right now, we're infatuated with the whisky coming out of Japan. A few years ago, Bonhams had a collection of almost 400 rare Japanese Whiskies to be…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Transportation
1965 Shelby / De Tomaso P70 Can-Am Sports Racer

This singular P70 Sports Racer is the result of a collaboration fraught with tension between Carroll Shelby (of Shelby Mustang fame) and Alejandro de Tomaso (of Pantera fame). The two automotive heads worked together to create the P70 prototype for the United States Road Racing Championship, a series which Shelby…

By Amos Kwon
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