WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teens and scientists will connect for the eighth annual National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week® (NDAFW) held Jan. 22-28, 2018. This week-long observance gives young people the facts about how alcohol and drugs can affect them, both in the short-term and over their lifetime.
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — A San Francisco judge has ruled Uber must turn over data on how many times customers have complained about an impaired driver.
The ride-sharing company didn’t want to.
Home to the world’s biggest drinkers, governments in the Baltic region thought they’d curb boozing and raise more revenue by hiking alcohol taxes. The only problem was that they didn’t coordinate.
If you're one of the enlightened few who believe all booze should be free, great news: A righteous victory has just been won in the skies.
Two Carlisle graduates convinced judges on the hit show "Shark Tank" to fund their invention, the "Guzzle Buddy," Sunday night.
The Iowans, Randy Rothfus and Jennifer Brick-Sullivan, both Carlisle High School graduates, invented a glass that attaches to the top of wine and beer bottles.
Amazon is throwing open the doors to its first cashier-less grocery store, dubbed Amazon Go, in Seattle on Monday, January 22.
Drizly, the Boston-based creator of an online marketplace for alcohol, has added a trio of executives with experience at brand-name companies like Apple, Procter & Gamble, and Vistaprint.
The startup named Joe Grabmeier as its chief financial officer, a role he most recently held at Adelphic Inc., a Waltham-based digital marketing startup that Time Inc. bought a year ago.
Women are permitted to purchase liquor. On 10 January 2018, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media issued Excise Notification No. 02/2018 under the Excise Ordinance, No. 8 of 1912 (as amended). The new Notification amends Excise Notification No. 666 of 31 December 1979, and removes the ban on the sale of liquor to women ‘within the premises of a tavern’.
The tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon—cold, fogbound and windswept specks in the North Atlantic midway between New York City and Greenland—lie far closer to polar bears and icebergs than the speakeasies and clubs where Americans tippled during Prohibition. But thanks to quirks of geography, history and law, the French archipelago served up much of the booze that Prohibition was supposed to keep Americans from drinking.
Isadore Einstein, known as “Izzy” to his friends, was no one’s idea of a G-man. Short, fat with numerous chins and thinning hair, he was so rotund that the great crime writer, Herbert Asbury, described his belly as moving “majestically ahead like the breast of an overfed pouter pigeon.