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A drinker would do well to remember Repeal Day, December 5, 1933. It's when Americans got back their right to party. After 13 dark years of Prohibition, the 18th Amendment was repealed saying good-bye to bootlegging and bathtub gin by making it legal to once again imbibe. Imagine how thirsty......

The new Chapter & Verse in Downtown's Arts District is not a bar. It is created by bar dynamos David Kaplan and Alex Day of Proprietors LLC, a hospitality firm responsible for Death & Company (NYC), Bar & Kitchen and the cocktail programs for Stella Rosa and Rosa Mexicano. And......

Modern mixology's pioneer Audrey Saunders has returned to Los Angeles. And after leaving La Brea's The Tar Pit after a short two months early last year, getting married, teaching seminars at prestigious cocktail events like the Manhattan Cocktail Classic and winning the 2011 Tales of the Cocktail award for Best......

Leave it to mixmaster Matthew Biancaniello at the Hollywood Roosevelt's Library Room to take the coffee cocktail to the next level. For his new fall drink, The Earth of Oaxaca, he didn't go the easy route with Kahlua or even an actual cuppa. Nope, no ready-to-go ingredients here. Instead he......

Barman Aidan Demarest has managed some of the best cocktail bars in town, opening up downtown's whiskey bar Seven Grand and the Hollywood Roosevelt's bowling alley/lounge Spare Room, while also introducing a unique guest bartending program to the Edison and First & Hope. After years of jumping from one bar......

Thanks to the booming craft beer scene in Los Angeles and California recently dubbed the number-one beer state, chances are that lately you can't look at a beer list without feeling overwhelmed and scratching your head about 99 percent of brews you don't recognize. What is a coffee Belgian Blonde......

When you're as passionate about food as food bloggers are, dieting and counting calories just don't make sense in your world. And thanks to countless media dinners, must-try cookbooks, not to mention ambitious 30-day binging projects (ahem, burgers and ice cream), weight gain is an inevitability. So how do some......

Unlike most young newlyweds who jump on the baby track once they get married, Jimmy and Yume Han decided to open a business instead. "We knew we wanted to go into business together, but we didn't know what," Yume said. "But Jimmy basically started falling in love, all of a......

Sometimes you just want a quiet place and a well-done cocktail to celebrate the Mexicans' victory over the French in the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Thankfully the cocktail-savvy need not fret, as the following L.A. bars have alternatives for those seeking something other than a Jose Cuervo margarita and tequila-shooting......

Beer cocktails are a growing trend in the Los Angeles cocktail scene, with Library Bar bartender Matthew Biancaniello's Hopping in the Rye being one of the first to start things off. Now you can take your pick of either traditional Micheladas, beer cocktails with a kick of hard liquor or......