On May 13, 1806, the Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York, answered a reader’s query as to the nature of a cocktail: “Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters—it is vulgarly called a bittered sling.”
Perhaps this will save the video rental industry yet! The very last Blockbuster store in America, located in Bend, Oregon, is coming out with a new product: Beer.
SYDNEY, N.S. — A psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts has a new app out that might help you determine if you should get behind the wheel after a few drinks or a joint.
CATASTROPHE SWEPT OVER THE SMALL city of Pripyat, in Northern Ukraine, in April of 1986. At the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a botched safety test resulted in an earth-shaking steam explosion at Reactor 4—the facility, with its bio-hazardous contents, was violently cracked open.
Alaska Airlines has eliminated preflight alcoholic beverages for first-class passengers, a standard perk on other carriers.
Millennials are about to be surpassed by Generation Z.
TORONTO – With two months to go before recreational cannabis is legalized in Canada on Oct. 17, new data from the country’s national statistics agency is stoking fears about drugged driving and raising questions about the ability of law enforcement officials to detect impairment.
The days are getting shorter, school bells are ringing, and Labor Day weekend festivities are almost upon us.
UNITED KINGDOM - Residents have been recognised for volunteering to help their neighbours look at alcohol issues in their community.
Last week, yet another visitor to Dubai was incarcerated along with her four-year old daughter for three days due to her having accepted a glass of red wine from a stewardess during her flight from the UK.