"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 ...

A story about the history and evolution of absinthe, from 1730 to 1915. The Green Fairy will take you on one hell of a trippy ride through time as it details not just the history of the notorious ...

We also have a couple of very big restaurant weeks in the Northwest suburbs, and March 5 is National Absinthe Day, so head to Western Springs to toast the green fairy. The Lenten season is almost ...

Why did absinthe get such a foothold in the belle époque? It’s all from the myth of the green fairy. Due to the drink’s medicinal origins and sky-high proof, there’s long been the belief that absinthe ...