"But ask a bartender if absinthe is back and they'll tell you it never went away." From Oscar Wilde to Vincent Van Gogh, absinthe was the "spirit of choice" for many of "history's most bohemian ...

idea changing liquid alchemy’, while Vincent van Gogh immortalised it on canvas. Invented in Switzerland in the late 1700s, absinthe quickly became the French drink of choice, with consumption ...

On 23 December, 1888, the day that Vincent van Gogh mutilated his ear and presented the severed portion to a sex worker, he was tended to by an unlikely soulmate: the postman Joseph Roulin.

The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh has sparked controversy among physicists. Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the ...

"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 ...