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Lifestyle

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

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Lifestyle
Our Go-to Albums for Hosting
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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
Lifestyle
Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

Our favorite places to stay, eat, drink, explore, and linger in one of Mexico's most captivating beach towns.

By Cool Material
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico
Lifestyle
The 9 Most Beautiful Golf Holes in Mexico

From jungle-lined fairways to greens hanging over the Sea of Cortez, consider this our fantasy nine-hole round through Mexico.

By Cool Material
10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About 10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About
Lifestyle
10 Labor Day Sales You Probably Don’t Know About

Forget the usual suspects. We found worthwhile deals on menswear, watches, luggage, design, fragrance, books, and more.

By Cool Material
Food
Black Insomnia Is the World’s Strongest Coffee

Yesterday, we published a story on teas that pack as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. Now we need to specify that those teas pack as much caffeine as a standard cup of coffee, not a cup of Black Insomnia. Black Insomnia is the new world's strongest coffee and it's…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Cereal Motel Cereal for Adults

Walk the cereal aisle of your local grocery store and you'll see plenty cartoon mascots encouraging kids to pick up a box. Tony the Tiger. Snap, Crackle, and Pop. The Honey Smacks frog with his super hip sideways hat. It's true, many cereals are aimed at children. Cereal Motel cereal is…

By Mike Newman
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Features
6 Teas That Deliver as Much Caffeine as Coffee

You need a boost of energy, but you don’t want to drink a cup of black coffee. You could go one route and fill half your cup with hazelnut creamer in an effort to get rid of that coffee taste. Or, you could go a completely different route and grab…

By Christopher Osburn
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Entertainment
The Beginner’s Guide to Street Photography

It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been shooting photos for 10 years or 10 minutes, or whether you’re a commercial studio photographer or a wedding photographer. It doesn’t matter whether you shoot with a full-frame DSLR, an old Leica, or some weird rig whose name you can’t pronounce that you found…

By Maxwell Barna
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Entertainment
Justice League’s First Official Trailer

It seems like DC can't catch a break. Of their three recent releases, only Man of Steel got even a lukewarm reception and even then, audiences and critics had some serious problems with Zach Snyder's Superman. So here's to hoping Justice League can finally give the DC Extended Universe the treatment it…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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