Stacy London chose a very interesting interior design style for her latest project. “The inspiration started off being an opium den because, you know, why not?” she tells PEOPLE of the aesthetic she ...

The bar in question, Green Lady, will open this summer as a speakeasy-style live music lounge underneath restaurant Rice & Gold. In recent press releases surrounding the opening, the bar was described ...

Hotel 50 Bowery, a new boutique hotel in New York City’s Chinatown, is paying homage to Chinese culture with some interesting decor decisions — like an opium den-themed lounge. “Through the mixing of ...

Among the French, expats from the old country brought back opium habits they learned while in southeast Asia, then set up opium dens in France. Here: An opium addict lights his pipe with an ...

These warehouses once housed an opium den and illegal distillery run by gangsters in the early 20th century. In the 1980s and 1990s, the site became a much-loved disco. Its latest reincarnation: a ...

When Joseph Jarrow’s melodrama, “The Queen of Chinatown,” played at Heuck’s Over-the-Rhine theater, reviewers praised its authenticity. The Cincinnati Post [27 January 1900] claimed the play offered a ...

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This article first appeared on the Foundation for Economic Education site. In Victorian literature, the drug of choice was opium, imbibed through water pipes. Its use was a signal that something had ...