Spiegelworld’s “Absinthe” marked 15 years as one of the Las Vegas Strip’s most daring and distinctive shows earlier this week ...

There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and ...

People are always intrigued by what they can't have. Celebrated in the 2001 movie "Moulin Rouge," Absinthe is banned in the United States and some European countries, though consumption of and ...

Imagine if suddenly you could walk into your local Walgreens, plunk down a couple of twenties, and walk out with a gram of pink Peruvian flake. That, or something very much like it, happened last year ...

The potent emerald-green blend of wormwood, green anise and fennel, known as "the Green Fairy," was once celebrated by French ...

Absinthe, which inspiration-seeking artists once drunk in excess, is not a psychedelic beverage after all, say international researchers. Instead, they say, the drink's reputation is down to nothing ...

Does absinthe contain any drugs? Will you start hallucinating green fairies after a couple of sips? The myths and misinformation surrounding this potent herbal concoction are many. But which ones hold ...

Our correspondent reports on the return of a forbidden nectar. Oscar Wilde once remarked, "A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of ...