LOCAL Houston | The City Guide OCTOBER 2015 | Page 10

ON
OUR
RADAR
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
Billy Reid
Morgan Weber and
Bill Baldwin
By Aaron Flores | Photography by Abraham Rowe

When you spend your time eating, breathing and sleeping all things
local, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. After all, that’s just one
half of the equation think globally, act locally. Recently two avowedly
Houston-centric businessmen retreated to an exclusive celebration of all
things local to mingle with like-minded folk from all over the South. BILL
BALDWIN, broker/owner of Boulevard Realty, and MORGAN WEBER, of Revival
Market and Coltivare acclaim, took to Florence, Alabama, last month to Shindig
No. 7, an annual festival of the “Modern South” that is the brainchild of
BILLY REID, the CFDA award-winning designer whose Houston boutique is
located on Westheimer near Upper Kirby. Shindig is quickly gaining a
reputation as the place to hobnob with urbanites who are leading the

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localist movements in their respective cities. Weber represented the growing locavore food scene in Houston as one of the featured chefs at the
Wilson Park Festival, while Baldwin used his time there as a chance to
reflect on the meaning of staying local in an increasingly globalized, corporatized world. As the owner of a real estate firm that has resolved to
stay independent. “The old saying remains true, real estate is local,”
Baldwin says, “but I think most people in my industry and many others
have adopted the mindset that localism is at best just a lofty ideal, if not
a totally outdated notion.” The common essence of Shindig is clear –
localist luxury means the things we love are artfully conceived, soulfully
sourced, painstakingly crafted and unabashedly low-key.