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 ...

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 ...

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Image of a Chinese man smoking an opium pipe while seated in a chair outside a building in 1928. (Photo and caption info courtesy of the San Diego History Center) A few blocks inland from San Diego’s ...

Struggles over finite space are endemic to urban life, but in San Francisco the battles can be especially fierce. As a peninsular city, its geography alone limits its capacity to absorb newcomers, a ...

Just a week after its grand opening, the Hotel 50 Bowery in New York City’s Chinatown just got a serious wake-up call from local residents. The hotel, opened by the Joie de Vivre hotel group on May 16 ...

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 ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Over $100,000 worth of opium was ...