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...turns out that the old saw about people drinking their troubles away in bad times--and boosting bar business--isn't true. Liquor sales lately have moved in step with the economy, which explains why so many attendees are driven to drink here at the annual bar-industry trade show in Las Vegas. With business stagnant at nightclubs, taverns, and restaurant and hotel bars, this is an industry thirsty for a new sensation...
...fair, the bar show doesn't look like a gathering of the troubled. This may have to do more with the gallons of free liquor being dispensed at dozens of booths than with statistics, like the one from the National Restaurant Association indicating that bar revenues barely kept pace with inflation in 2002. In part, the sluggishness can be traced to a post-9/11 shift in leisure tastes. After the terrorist attacks, business dropped off at upscale restaurants and clubs. "People would still go out, but not to spend as they did before," says Michael Harrelson, editor...
Like most Japanese, I grew up around sake. The clear rice liquor--a fermented product somewhat similar to wine--infuses many important holidays and traditions here, not to mention poetry and cuisine. My father, an American who has lived in Japan for four decades, drinks it hot every night with dinner. My hometown, Kobe, produces nearly a third of the industry's yield. My mother's side of the family is even in the sake business. Still, until recently, I never cared much for the stuff. Its strong smell, fiery aftertaste and old-fashioned image seemed about as alluring...
...when eight cops stomped into the Stonewall Inn, a dive in Manhattan's Greenwich Village district that had no liquor license but served watery drinks to a mix of drag queens, street kids, gay professionals and closeted and straight mafiosi (who ran the place). Within two hours, the Village was bleeding and burning as hundreds rioted...
...Drinking is the least of it, because the clubs have liquor licenses that are very valuable to them and they wouldn’t want to risk doing anything to lose their license,” Illingworth said. “But liquor is a concern when you think of the idea of Harvard students perhaps being intoxicated, in Boston at 3 a.m. without public transportation, and in areas where we have no jurisdiction...