Want to party like it’s 1899? Well, now you can–sort of. After nearly a century-long ban on absinthe in the U.S., a federal agency has begrudgingly allowed two European distillers to sell the ...

To hear Hollywood tell it, just a few swigs of absinthe is enough to send you on a hallucinogenic trip. Then there's Vincent Van Gogh. He cut off his ear after drinking it. Many wild stories and myths ...

Depicted in works of Impressionist painters, blamed for acts of brazen insanity, and now resurging in bars across the continent, absinthe is one of the most mysterious beverages to hit bar shelves.