NEW YORK -- Heads turned when a waiter brought a traditional absinthe fountain, filled with ice water, to a dining table here at the trendy Waverly Inn on a recent Friday night. Three stylish women in ...

Absinthe, the green spirit favored by Parisian artists and writers in the last century, is making a comeback—and the folks at À Côté Bar à Absinthe will happily introduce you to the absinthe ...

Toward the end of his short life, painter Vincent Van Gogh consumed a steady diet of intoxicants. Chief among them was absinthe, a potent, pale green, anise-tinged spirit that was all the rage at the ...

Atop a secret staircase, guarded by a lithe and lovely Siamese cat, a tiny lounge beckoned. The cat threaded itself about my ankles as we made sense of the skeleton key and entered what had once been ...