The smoke hits you first. Not the harsh smoke of a backyard barbecue, but something deeper, more primal – the earthy essence of roasted agave hearts that have been slowly smoldering in underground pits across Oaxaca. Here in Houston, 800 miles from those Mexican highlands, a revolution is quietly taking place, one small-batch mezcal at […]
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In a former auto parts warehouse on St. Emanuel Street, the bass line from an underground hip-hop show reverberates through exposed brick walls. Two blocks away, a psychedelic rock band tunes up in what used to be a coffee bean storage facility. Around the corner, a line forms outside a converted cotton sorting station where
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The neon martini glass still flickers to life each evening at 307 Travis Street, just as it has since 1953. Inside Warren’s Inn, the dim lighting catches the brass rail of the original mahogany bar, worn smooth by seven decades of elbows and stories. The jukebox, loaded with everything from Sinatra to The Stones, hums
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