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

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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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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

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You can learn a lot about a man by the tools he keeps. If you want to learn about guys in general however, running into open garages and rifling through toolboxes is probably a poor way to run a case study. To see where we're at as a society and to learn…

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You remember the last time you were in a Science Fair and you built that crazy Rube Goldberg machine that had all kinds of cool aspects and mechanisms but ultimately did nothing? Gary Schott is kind of like that—except way more polished and with a purpose. The metalsmith creates everything…

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It's amazing we all didn't die from nausea (possible?) growing up watching videos shot on our dad's or our friend's gigantic camera. Seriously, those videos were like watching The Blair Witch Project only instead of the disappearance of some campers we watched our Grandmother eating birthday cake. Seeing as how technology…

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We're just going to put this out there: If J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg sat down and decided to direct and produce episodes of The Golden Girls we would watch them. When one of these guys decides to take on a project, even if it's only a remake, ridiculous things…

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