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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 Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

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Corter Leather Guitar Picks

Cards on the table, we haven't picked up a guitar in ages. We were never very good at it to begin with, so it serves a much better purpose hanging on the wall as art than it ever would in our hands. But that's ok because we have friends and acquaintances…

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Muji Indoor Football

Thanksgiving usually marks the last time most guys play any organized sport outdoors. We use the term "organized" loosely because it is usually a drunken game of football with the family that features lots of dropped passes, a hefty helping of poorly run trick plays, and an uncle puking in…

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Camera Wrist Strap

For a while we were convinced there was one company making all the wrist straps that are included with most point-and-shoot digital cameras. Just one little uninspired-to-get-creative-because-there's-no-competition company out there churning these things out by the case full. The YKK Zipper company of camera straps. Instead of being stuck with that same boring…

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Crypteks USB

Despite looking like a prop from a cinematic adaptation of some Dan Brown novel, the Crypteks USB is actually a very real way of keeping your most important info safe. Instead of keeping digital tax files, private corporate documents and loads and loads of porn on some USB drive that could…

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Infinity Playing Cards

There's something magical about a boat full of aces over eights. Something extraordinary about a hand full of sequentially numbered red or black cards. Whether your game is hold em or stud or draw, or if you're just making aces appear and disappear at will, cards can be magical. When…

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