prohibition
Happy Repeal Day: Party like it's 1933
If you’re meeting friends at your favorite watering hole tonight, take a minute to raise a glass to President Franklin Roosevelt. It was on this date — Dec. 5, 1933...
House acts so pot peddlers have something to bank on
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of medical marijuana. The 236-186 vote...
Inside a German mega brothel
There are floors and floors of women; some wear nothing, others very little. Men in groups can be seen wandering the corridors of mega brothels, some of which offer unlimited...
Prohibition-era Chumley's is more 'brothel' than speakeasy, says neighbor
A Greenwich Village resident who is suing to block the re-opening of a Prohibition Era pub bizarrely compared the literary landmark — a favorite haunt of authors F. Scott Fitzgerald...
How NYC's gay bars thrived because of the mob
Who’d have guessed that, as far back as the 1930s, it was the mob who would give homosexuals a place to mingle, hook up and eventually coalesce as a movement...
Andrew F. Smith: My food New York
You can thank the Erie Canal for the cronut, the Reuben sandwich and pretty much every other NYC culinary innovation. The canal opened in 1821 and brought grain, which made...
Pot prohibitionists' pathetic points
On Monday, less than a week after Colorado’s state-licensed marijuana shops began serving recreational consumers, the anti-pot group Project SAM thanked three public figures who “have galvanized our movement.” One...
Crowds gather as 'pot prohibition' ends in Colorado
DENVER — Crowds were serenaded by live music as they waited for the nation's first legal recreational pot shops to open. They ate doughnuts and funnel cakes as a glass-blower...
Prohibition was the perfect excuse for NYers to run wild
Each autumn during Prohibition, it was not uncommon for the streets of Greenwich Village and Little Italy to run purple. This was due not to falling leaves or some Barney...