The former 'Breaking Bad' co-leads are now liquor brand co-founders, bringing a little bit of Oaxaca to your bar cart with Dos Hombres mezcal.
Aaron Paul is in the middle of a story when the familiar chorus of breaking glass rings out from behind the bar. We're at Little Dom's in Los Feliz, and he's telling me about filming the Westworld finale when it happens. Not two minutes later, the waitress who took our drink order is back at the end of the table, sheepishly ducking into the conversation, "I'm so sorry, but when the bartender was making your Negroni, he dropped the bottle of Dos Hombres." Aaron laughs, as she adds, "And it was our last one." That's an awkward thing to say to the co-founder of mezcal brand Dos Hombres who is here, with me, to discuss Dos Hombres over a few rounds of cocktails made with Dos Hombres, but the actor rolls with it. He shifts his order to an old fashioned, which he insists is also great with the smoky spirit. Getting that characteristic shine is just the beginning. Keep the wisdom, lose the wrinkles. The great American schools debate has featured a lot of justifiable concern around the pitfalls of virtual school: learning loss, stalled behavioral development, childcare strains, and the many other cascading effects of losing these institutions that we have made core gears in our social machine. Sometimes, these debates have veered into speculation about whether teachers are really doing everything they can for students. But we rarely hear from teachers themselves. So we asked six educators from K-12 schools across the country what it has been like teaching this year, particularly since the rise of the Omicron variant in December. These durable, insulating options will get you through the colder months with ease. The style is as timeless—and timely—as ever.  John Darnielle writes songs that help people make it through hard times because they're about people making it through hard times. As the frontman for prolific indie rock stalwarts the Mountain Goats—there's no official total for the number of songs they've put out but it's well north of 600—he tells stories of lives lived on the margins. His hundreds of songs are populated with brooding teens and bloodied pro wrestlers, bitter divorcees and desperate people far from home. It's a rogues gallery struck through with loss and heartbreak but ultimately held together by hope. It mirrors his own life in ways both deeply complicated and very simple: everybody hurts, sometimes. Darnielle writes more than songs, however. He's been writing stories since he was a child (he's 54 now) and his debut novel, Wolf in White Van, about a role playing game run by a recluse, was nominated for the National Book Award in 2014. His followup, Universal Harvester, a midwestern gothic about a video store clerk, was a New York Times Bestseller. And this week, Devil House, his latest, hits shelves. |
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