Nickolaus Hines

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Technology + Gear by Nickolaus Hines May 30, 2025 Kina Pickett knows what it takes to live a life that blends adventure and design.

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In June 2020, Iowa passed the pandemic-era cocktail to go law to help bars and restaurants survive during a time when indoor dining was widely prohibited. Thirty-eight other states followed. Today, all but eight of those states still allow on-premise establishments to sell cocktails to go in some form. In New York, the pandemic-era policy was , and California, Illinois, and New Jersey have temporary allowances. More than half of U.S. states now have permanent laws allowing alcohol to go.

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Santa Fe New Mexico Epic Stays by Nickolaus Hines May 12, 2025 There are a few things I consider essential to a good road trip: snacks, a solid playlist, the right companions, and a loose itinerary with space for spontaneity. Most importantly, I want a place to stay at the end of a long drive where I can park my car and not step back into it until the next leg of the journey. On a road trip to New Mexico, I found just that at Piñon Court by La Fonda in Santa Fe. The property sits between two...

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California Napa Sonoma Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Wine Epic Stays by Nickolaus Hines May 1, 2025 More than 80 percent of all the wine made in the United States comes from California. The state alone is the fourth-largest wine producer in the world after Italy, France, and Spain. And while the vineyards and wineries in the northern half of the state are the most famous, producers in Napa and the surrounding areas only make a fraction of the high-quality wines found up and down the...

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Phoenix Denver New York City San Francisco Los Angeles Cannabis by Nickolaus Hines Apr 18, 2025 In early April, I traveled to Phoenix for a cannabis-focused weekend with the multi-state cannabis brand Trulieve. I’m no stranger to cannabis weekends as someone who lives in Denver and has written about cannabis off and on for nearly a decade. Still, going to Phoenix for cannabis was a new one for me. Arizona legalized adult use in 2020, and cannabis has become a part of mainstream culture in...