Tag: Prohibition

Step foot in Japan, and it won’t take long to conceive of just how powerful its drinking culture is. Venues catering to those wishing to get sloshed abound: izakaya (Japanese pubs); top-shelf classic cocktail dispensaries; ten-seater snack bars; British and Irish pubs; standing ...

On the corner of Jessie Street, The Harlequin is slick and stylized on the inside: hanging glass chandeliers and elaborate white-petal, art-installation-esque light fixtures; maximalist florid wallpaper; exposed brick with lamppost-like sconces; and those court-jester-inspired floor tiles. Even the ...

The passage of Prohibition in 1919 was no slam dunk. To some it seemed like a rural, Protestant campaign against urban, Catholic immigrants. The cartoons here are included to represent the tortuous history of good intentions gone bad that in a little less than thirteen years disgraced municipal law ...