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I recently stayed at Blind Tiger, a quaint historic boutique hotel in Portland, Maine. The hotel has fascinating connections to the Prohibition era and lots of classic charm. I stayed [...]

Today the Wine and Spirits Guild includes 44 independent retailers spanning the country, ranging from single-store operations to large regional chains. Membership is by invitation only. Many guild members go [...]

Two flights at Haiti's Port-au-Prince airport were struck by gunfire Monday amid escalating gang violence in Haiti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WRITTEN BY GABRIELLE NICOLE PHARMS THE BOOTLEGGER COCKTAIL, MUSAAFER Visiting Houston, Texas, soon? Good. You must hit the fine Indian food restaurant, Musaafer. The food is fantastic, and The Bootlegger [...]

The Editors 21st Amendment Gets New Owners…. Indiana-based liquor store chain 21st Amendment is undergoing a change of ownership following the death of founder and former Market Watch Retailer of [...]

By Tori Peglar Back in the day, bootleggers stashed liquor in tunnels they built underneath the heart of Greybull’s downtown, or so the legend goes. Today, you can visit the [...]

I started work on Cheers, Mr. Churchill! Winston in Scotland on the day the UK went into its first Covid-19 lockdown. These restrictions presented challenges to every aspect of life [...]

WORDS LAURA WATERS Geelong’s Art Deco Eastern Beach Baths; Toast to the prohibition era at The 18th Amendment Bar. FROM THE YARRA RIVER, THE GREY SPEARS of Melbourne’s skyline shrink [...]

JACOB GRIER (Illustration: Joanna Andreasson) IN JULY 2014, five New York City police officers approached Eric Garner on a Staten Island sidewalk and accused him of illegally selling “loosies”—individual cigarettes [...]

By the time the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect in January 1920, prohibiting the manufacture, transport or sale of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States, 33 [...]

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, WHO took office in the final year of Prohibition, issued some 1,300 pardons for alcohol-related offenses during his first three terms. As a 1939 report from the Justice [...]

—JonnyMcCormick Booming cocktail sales, a shortage of mature rye whiskey, and the user-friendliness of online auctions have combined to generate significant interest in rye as a collectible. Niche rye barrel [...]

WRITTEN BY PHOEBE CALVER The distillery’s co-founders Colin Spoelman and David Haskell Standing outside of the Kings County Distillery, you could almost be mistaken for thinking you’d taken a step [...]

CHRIS MIDDLETON The motivation to remove alcohol from society often rests on four social pillars: firstly, to redirect household expenditure; secondly, to reduce crimes of drunkenness, assaults and domestic abuse; [...]

While the preachers and writers of the Church spread a sexuality that can only be sinful when it is not conceived as procreative, when they argue and propagate messages or theories that systematically relate it to death, there are in the Marian literature, beyond the official condemnation, some texts that present subterfuges or escape tactics of the weak, sinner lovers, to a tremendous destiny. These are the ones that will be presented in this study of two great texts of 13th century Marian lyric, Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora by Gonzalo de Berceo and Las Cantigas de Santa María by Alfonso El Sabio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This week marks the 88th anniversary of the end of one of the biggest failed experiments in U.S. history. It was called Prohibition. Prohibition was a time in history when [...]

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi--Current president of Egypt Boyan Slat--Dutch inventor and environmentalist Carrie Nation--Anti-alcohol activist known for breaking up taverns with a hatchet (lived 1846-1911) Hilma af Klint--Swedish abstract artist (lived [...]

Byline: Jennifer M. Latzke Rolling hills of grapevines. Instagram-worthy venues for celebrations. Winery tasting rooms filled with patrons. It's not Napa Valley in California -- it's Kansas. Kansas was once [...]

Byline: Jennifer M. Latzke Rolling hills of grapevines. Instagram-worthy venues for celebrations. Winery tasting rooms filled with patrons. It's not Napa Valley in California - it's Kansas. Kansas was once [...]

Byline: Jennifer M. Latzke Rolling hills of grapevines. Instagram-worthy venues for celebrations. Winery tasting rooms filled with patrons. It's not Napa Valley in California - it's Kansas. Kansas was once [...]

Byline: Jennifer M. Latzke Rolling hills of grapevines. Instagram-worthy venues for celebrations. Winery tasting rooms filled with patrons. It's not Napa Valley in California - it's Kansas. Kansas was once [...]

Byline: Jennifer M. Latzke Rolling hills of grapevines. Instagram-worthy venues for celebrations. Winery tasting rooms filled with patrons. It's not Napa Valley in California - it's Kansas. Kansas was once [...]

F'view 84 (1-11pm only) F'sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273 8.00am Beautiful Serengeti 8.35 Prohibition 9.40 Born in the Wild: Dolphin 10.40 9/11: the Firemen's Story 11.50 New. Hacking Your [...]

The bartender places an elixir of lemon juice, tobacco syrup, vanilla and San Pelligrino Chinotto atop a coaster that reads '0%' in a bold orange hue. A film of condensation [...]

CHARLES DE BRUIN'S phone has barely stopped ringing since 9pm on July 12th, after Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, announced an immediate ban on the sale of alcohol. The prohibition [...]

By: Hellen Ndlovu Director of Regulatory & Public Policy at SAB The banning of alcohol sales during lockdown was initially intended to help protect communities, but reality has set in [...]

F'view 91 (1-11pm only) F'sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273 8.00am Chivalry and Betrayal: the Hundred Years War 9.15 Jazz (S) 10.35 George W Bush 1.00pm Chivalry and Betrayal: the [...]

5.00pm Four in a Bed The final visit of the week is to Pollards Inn in Willaston on the Wirral Peninsula. (S) (HD) 5.30 Come Dine with Me Child talent [...]

Byline: AnimationXpress Team Iron Circus Comics Publisher Spike Trotman, cartoonist Tracy Butler, and director Fable Siegel are partnering for a multimedia crowdfunding campaign to adapt ButlerÇÖs webcomic Lackadaisy into an [...]

On Valentine's Day 1920, less than a month after Prohibition began, a raid to enforce the Volstead Act ignited a firestorm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. State constables raided three houses [...]

Piper-Heidsieck reported its return as the sole Champagne to be served during the 92nd Oscars awards season. According to a release, this marks the sixth year of a long-term partnership [...]

Katie Warren/Business Insider January 16, 2020 is the (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/prohibition-began-100-years-ago-and-its-legacy-remains/2020/01/14/adcd034e-36e3-11ea-a1ff-c48c1d59a4a1_story.html) 100th anniversary of the start of Prohibition, when alcohol was banned across the US for 13 years. During Prohibition, (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-25-coolest-speakeasies-in-america-2015-9?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=newstex&utm_term=original&utm_campaign=partner) hidden [...]

Byline: Our Bureau, Mumbai Bandra's cocktail bar The Little Easy (TLE) has now added Negroni to its cocktail menu. It contains martini, and like beer, will be available on tap. [...]

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Byline: CityBusiness staff reports A bipartisan group of 46 state and territory Attorneys General are asking Facebook, Craigslist and eBay to crack down on alcohol sales on their platforms that [...]

Byline: Adina Genn At any moment it seemed that a zoot-suited Steve Buscemi might burst through a secret entrance leading into the brick-clad VIP room. Here, visitors make a time-leap [...]

Byline: Andy Morton Anheuser-Busch InBev is to launch its first non-alcoholic beers in India. The company confirmed to just-drinks that Budweiser Prohibition Brew and Hoegaarden 0.0 will roll out to [...]

Byline: Eric Levitz New Jersey governor Phil Murphy's marijuana legalization bill is a model of progressive reform. The legislation wouldn't just end prohibition of a (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-study-suggests-risks-marijuana-use-have-been-overestimated/) substance less dangerous than [...]

A vacant Gaslamp Quarter building with a colorful history as a one-time house of ill repute and Prohibition era speakeasy may get resurrected as a boutique hotel Built in 1911 [...]

Not many people have had a kind word for Prohibition on its hundredth anniversary, but let us pause to note that its proponents and opponents alike displayed a constitutional scrupulosity [...]

It's National Beer Day! April 7 marks the day that beer was allowed to be legally manufactured and sold following a long, dry Prohibition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(2) REMUS REPEAL RESERVE SERIES V Remus Repeal Reserve is an annual series from George Remus Bourbon (MGP), commemorating the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Series Vis a blend of [...]

Dec. 5 marks the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. Here's how the legacy of 'The Noble Experiment' has made for a better and stronger beverage alcohol industry. Few [...]

Remus Repeal Reserve is an annual series from George Remus Bourbon (MGP), commemorating the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Series V is a blend of five straight bourbons, ranging from [...]