The muscle of “Absinthe” is bowing out ... chair-stack artist Maxim Popazov is the final remaining original performer in the hit Spiegelworld show at Caesars Palace. The timing is remarkably ...
"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...
The wormwood plant from which absinthe is made is not native to Switzerland, but probably arrived with the Romans.
Depicted in works of Impressionist painters, blamed for acts of brazen insanity, and now resurging in bars across the continent, absinthe is one of the most mysterious beverages to hit bar shelves.