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Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide

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.

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Bourbon has never been bigger. And somehow, it still has secrets.

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Hosting is a laborious and often thankless task. Be a better house guest with one of these gifts that go beyond the cliché bottle of wine.

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

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Inside the 35th Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Cool Destination: The Ultimate Puerto Vallarta Guide
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This Los Angeles-Based Microbrand Makes the Best Tool Watch Under $1,000

Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide
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Cool Party: Our End of Summer Hosting Guide

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Somehow this video captures exactly how the world looks to us when we're smashed but it does so in such a beautiful fashion.  The world in slow motion, some Beastie Boys pounding in our eardrums and random glasses flying against the wall - it's like we are back in college!

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We've come close to the point of bankruptcy on more than one occasion stocking up on all the cool material that graces the pages of this website and lines the halls of Shop Cool Material. Friends and family members have accosted us for "forcing them" to buy another iPhone case,…

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There's no shortage of music getting released every Tuesday, but it's no secret that most of it is auto-tuned, over-produced, collaborative trash. We want gritty, no bullshit, no nonsense rock that we can put on a flannel, take off our pants and rock out to. Which is precisely why we're…

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As guys, we don't need overly decorated or visually appealing tools. We make our investments based on functionality cause we plan on beating the crap out of them. Most of the time. Sometimes we find gear that we want both for its purpose and for its aesthetics. The Skeleton Key easily…

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Duke Cannon is the man Santa Clause wishes he could be. The man that James Bond signals for assistance when his Aston Martin breaks down and his abs are feeling a little flabby. He'd applaud Leeroy Jenkins for being man enough to charge into battle, but punch him right in…

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