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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

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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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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Nobody casually watches Dexter. If you watch Dexter, you love Dexter. Most fans of the show are the adult male equivalents of pimply-faced teenyboppers slapping pictures of Taylor Lautner's abs up on their wall. Even if you aren't a Dexter memorabilia collecting freak, you might still enjoy tossing these coasters on your coffee table before your…

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The Dark Knight Rises

We don't need to tell you why you should watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. You saw The Dark Knight, you know what Christopher Nolan is capable of and you've no doubt already clicked through months of candid shots of Bane. In fact, we're fairly sure you've already clicked…

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Inkleaf Leather Co. Field Notes Cover

With over fifteen different apps on our phones (and countless more available) for reminders, appointments, notes and to-dos, not to mention e-mail, it's a wonder that we even interact with paper anymore. And yet, like clockwork, we find ourselves whipping out a pocket notebook to write something down at least…

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Heavy Equipment Calendar 2012

Next to guns, gigantic machines capable of moving the earth are pretty much the coolest things out there. Just looking at them sends us back to sandboxes filled with Tonka trucks when we were five. It's a crazy sort of awe and mystery that even the most ridiculous new cell…

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Urban Flipper Playable Pinball Machine

The only issue we ever had with pinball was the sheer size of the game.  While easy to store in an arcade or back of a run-of-the-mill pizza joint, putting Intellivision/NES/Sega Genesis/Playstation/Xbox 360 just made more sense to us for optimal storage vs entertainment ratio.  So, it would be easy…

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