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The thought may have crossed your mind once some balmy spring day in early March, pre-heat, as the flowers start to bloom but the mosquitoes haven't yet returned. Or perhaps you realized it some fall evening as you relaxed on a patio having drinks while people in the northern half of the country listened to their radiators clank like a death knell. "Houston's not so bad, in fact, despite the [_____], it's worth it." Okay,...

If you think the pages of National Geographic were filled with stories of unusual tribes engaging in unfamiliar customs in foreign lands, well, the current issue won't prove you wrong: This month, the august journal explores the curious customs of the River Oaks crowd. Between the outrageous parties, the multimillion-dollar divorces, the Versailles replicas and the murders, Houstonians have long known how entertaining the local jet set can be, but River Oaks seems to have...