Mike Hoinski
@hoinski
magazine editor | Texas Highways @texashighways.bsky.social I commission and edit the Open Road essay series:
Wild realization last night. While watching Boyhood for the first time since it was released, I confirmed the rumor that the house where they solicit Obama signs is mine. This little red brick number is no longer. But that’s our same address.
This album is 45 years old and sounds like it could have been released last week.
Happy publication day to my pal (and @texashighways.bsky.social writer-at-large) Lauren Hough. Honored to be name-checked on pg 2. And this graf on Texas Highways is just 🤩.
Best summer cocktail in Austin. Blood orange frozen Negroni at Bambino. The pizza kicks ass too.
Roughly 60 beaches dot the Texas coastline—from a remote island that has hosted five U.S. presidents, to a space station with rockets blazing, to a wildlife sanctuary that makes you feel like you’re on "Survivor." Here, seven writers present their cases for the best beach in Texas.
The June issue goes live tmrw & it's a banger. We've got: THE GREAT BEACH-OFF, w/ 7 writers on their favorite Texas beach. CRUDE AWAKENING, NYT bestseller Paul Greenberg's immersion into oil rig fishing. RETURN TO THE RIVER, Senior Writer Ian Dille's report on the Hill Country floods 1 yr later.