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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.

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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop
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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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What I'm buying, wearing, and using, this week.

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7 Essentials from Filson’s Warm-Weather Shop

For the beach, the lake, the trail, and wherever you like disappearing to on summer weekends.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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Biological Planes By Al Brady

For the next evolution of airplanes and fighter jets, Al Brady imagines us looking to animals for inspiration. Not just creatures today, but animals from the past as well. His pterodactyl jet will be featured in the upcoming film Is This Heaven, and here you can get a look at some…

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Real World Business Cards Of Fictional Characters

Stark Radiators. Optimus Prime Auto Transport. Hogwarts Cleaning Agency. TMNT Artistic Pizza. These are just a few of the business cards dreamed up for some of our favorite fictional entities by Invasione Creative (Italian Graphic designers Benedetto Papi and Edoardo Santamato). If these were real places, we'd patronize all of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Lifta is The World’s Simplest Desk Organizer

Lifta doesn't come with hidden compartments, storage trays, or anything that will clutter the appearance of your clean workstation. What it does offer is a very basic, but very beautiful, way to lift your monitor to the proper ergonomic height while giving you a place to put your peripherals. It's…

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Philip Seymour Hoffman in God’s Pocket (Trailer)

Everyone knows we lost a tremendous actor when Philip Seymour Hoffman died earlier this year, and the latest trailer for one of his final movies is further proof of that. God's Pocket is based on the 1963 novel by Pete Dexter where a man tries to cover-up the accidental death of his…

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This Unassuming Desk Will Change The Way You Work

Upon first glance, the Artifox Desk looks like a simple work area that happens to be pretty sharp, but spend a minute with it and you'll realize all it actually has to offer. Besides its minimal good looks, the desk has a dry-erase surface on the side for note taking…

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