Armed with a bottle of Egyptian brandy and a bowl of steaming chickpeas, Hatem Fouad keeps watch each night over a historic slice of Cairo that is in danger of dying: the bars that once flourished amid the sweeping boulevards and graceful roundabouts of the city's European-style downtown.
Li Xiaopeng has dominated the parallel bars — and the competition — winning the sixth gold medal in gymnastics for the Chinese men in the Beijing Olympics.
China's He Kexin has won a tiebreaker over all-around champion Nastia Liukin of the United States for the uneven bars gold medal Monday at the Beijing Olympics.
The state Supreme Court is deciding whether an agreement among bar owners to abandon weekend drink specials was a legal effort to discourage binge drinking or a possible antitrust violation.
The Quality Inn & Suites Winnipeg Hotel is now providing a revolutionary new featuring of Rock Band 2 in their hotel lounge – the Winn City Pub.
Author Tom Robbins is releasing a book on beer, B is for Beer, in April 2009. He also wrote the foreword for Natural Skagit, a book of photography and historic tales of Skagit County, from the Skagit Land Trust. Robbins lives in Skagit County.
New York City, Christmas Eve, 1973...Global warming hadn't become an A-list cause. Ozone layer sounded like something you inhaled at a party.
(Newser) – For those who are sick of shelling out to send Facebook friends cupcake icons and virtual champagne bottles for occasions, the startup Give Real has the answer.
Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Bob Bennett today urged DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council Chairman Vincent Gray to reverse the emergency legislation passed last week that will allow Washington bars and restaurants to sell alcohol until 5a.m. during inauguration week.
Late-night drinkers are to be given tea and biscuits as part of a taxpayer-funded scheme to cut rowdy behaviour at closing time.
Obama's presidential victory has resulted in the kind of groundbreaking change that means you being able to whistle down the bar for shooters at four in the morning, ordering from a bartender who alternates between loathing you for your drunken Napoleon-in-the-field routine an …
The plight of Ms. Guérin is being replicated all over France, as traditional cafes and bars suffer and even close, hit by changing attitudes, habits and now a poor economic climate.
"At the beginning of the night I separate them into the 'Yes baby, you're the one' category right through to 'Absolutely no way.' Of course, these categories shift as the evening progresses.
police pulled him over early Thursday in midtown Manhattan for driving a car without license plates. He was hauled off to jail after a search of the vehicle turned up a handgun, authorities said.
GustOrganic, an all-organic restaurant in New York is now also home to the world's first all-organic bar. Using entirely organic spirits—beers, cocktails, wine, and liquor, GustOrganic is the first bar to be certified organic by the USDA.
Some bars and taverns escaped the smoking ban in Pennsylvania. As the state Department of Health granted more than 1,700 exceptions to the statewide ban that took effect Sept. 11, and more than 350 establishments in Allegheny County are among them.
If you happen to stopover in Kuala Lumpur, hit the town and party at one of these coolest and funkiest bars.
Comprehensive site with street maps for every bar in NYC
It's the sort of news that will make a smoker's eyes light up. A company has created a fruit-flavoured herbal drink that claims to deliver the same fix as cigarettes. Called Liquid Smoking, it promises an instant high followed by a 'euphoric calming feeling'.
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- If a chance to help choose the next president of the United States isn't enough to get some voters to the polls, maybe a free beer is.
Wonders of oil and capitalism ... "Religion has become more of a personal choice and Islam less of a common bond than national identity ...
IT IS SHAPING UP to be a bare-knuckled bar brawl between two of Seattle's most popular Tex-Mex restaurants. In one corner is Pesos Kitchen and Lounge. The decade-old Queen Anne establishment features wrought metal decor, russet-colored walls and nuevo-Mexican cuisine.
Backpackers Behaving Badly. 7 riotous days inside China's wildest youth hostel. A short (true) story by backpacker-photojournalist Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People.
There seems to be a lot more dirt under all that Alaskan ice than I ever thought.
BILD reporters have uncovered Beijing's secret sex industry, hidden in the back rooms of the Olympic host city's hair salons and karaoke bars.
Commercial venues are very aware of the effects that the environment – in this case, music – can have on in-store traffic flow, sales volumes, product choices, and consumer time spent in the immediate vicinity.
A recent article in the South China Morning Post alleged that the Chinese government had ordered Beijing bars to ban blacks and other "undesirables" from entering during next month's Olympic Games. The article stated, quote:
in agreement with previous research on music, food and drink, high sound levels may have caused higher arousal, which led the subjects to drink faster and to order more drinks