Sentences with phrase «as speakeasy»

What began as a speakeasy in Midtown during Prohibition has become one of the most historically significant dining destinations in the country.

During prohibition, illegal bars in the country flourished and became known as speakeasies, a term coined from bar owners having to admonish loud, drunken customers when they became too rowdy by asking them to «speak easy, boys.»

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Mary Stevens is a digital video producer for CNBC where she shoots, edits and produces original content across CNBC platforms, including series such as «Speakeasy with John Harwood» and «Live and Learn.»

The «Speakeasy» programme in use in many organizations such as Sure Start also promote «family planning» according to the philosophy of Brook and fpa (formerly known as the Family Planning Association).

The building, which houses the speakeasy - style bar Manifesto (also owned by Maybee), opened originally in 1915 as a hotel.

E.A.T. Marketplace is hosting a variety of harvest events including «Gather at the Table,» a Local Craft Harvest Beer Pairing and Dinner (October 5); «God of the Vine: Dionysus,» a speakeasy Pop - Up Bar with entertainment and delectable snacks; as well as «Yoga & Wine... is Divine!»

Go for a drink at the prohibition - themed speakeasy Knee High Stocking Company, or get transported to early - 20th - century Paris at Can Can, a hot Seattle nightspot, where you'll sip on fancy cocktails as you take in a cabaret show.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a London's specialist speakeasy bars invites you into an underground world of illicit drinking.

He has contributed to a wide variety of print and online outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter, The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog, Boxoffice Magazine, IFC, Movies.com, Variety, The Playlist, Cinematical, MTV Movies blog, and Celebuzz.com, where he served as Senior Film Editor.

At first, the setting is prohibition - era Chicago (right as the Great Depression was beginning to sink in), where Joe and Jerry play as part of a small jazz band in a speakeasy run out of a funeral parlor by criminal kingpin Spats Colombo (George Raft).

The story centers on two small - town yokels from upstate New York, tricked into opening a barbershop in the big city that a gangster could use as a front for his speakeasy.

A war vet (Anthony Mackie), who was arrested at a speakeasy shows up as well.

As the two women navigate between the sparkling underworld of speakeasies by night and their work at the station by day, Rose is drawn fully into Odalie's high - stakes world.

Recent years have seen a speakeasy revival (even prior to the Baz Luhrmann remake of The Great Gatsby) with open - secret bars like Please Don't Tell and Employees Only in New York, and prohibition cocktail favorites such as The Bee's Knees, French 75, The Aviation, and The Singapore Sling.

He also divuulges details about the speakeasy history of New York City as well as the history of some of New York's notable buildings and theaters.

A password that changes monthly will get you into the clandestine restaurant Speakeasy del Dry Martini — described as a «discreet eatery» — that is connected to the bar.

With the design concept created by Hirsch Bedner Associates, the design of the property is inspired by 1920's Prohibition era, infusing elements from the underground speakeasies and tunnels, the Fiesta de las Flores parade, the budding Hollywood movie industry, as well as historic Chinatown.

Thanks to countless pop culture references and notorious 20th - century organized crime figures such as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti, the concept of organized crime calls to mind images of bygone eras when speakeasies, Mob - run casinos and infamous M...

21st Amendment at La Louisiane is a speakeasy - style bar overlooking Iberville Street; photographs and décor pay tribute to the building's history as a watering hole for local mobsters.

It's noted: «There have been 19 more games added [to the ToJam 2007 website] such as... * Two by Two * Noodle * Emergency Response Team * Super Defender Robo * Speakeasy * Monkey Banana Blitz * Yarrgh!

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

The mansion Show House, built in 1930, includes elements of the past, such as a basement speakeasy, as well as the work of contemporary artists and designers including Eileen Serwer.

Incorporated January 10, 1851, the city has been home to Major League Baseball spring training, illegal gambling, speakeasies and gangsters such as Al Capone, horse racing...

Coal & Cedar is a prohibition - era - style speakeasy that stocks 65 different sorts of whiskey, but they served me up a lovely vodka, lime and soda, as well as delish jalapenos stuffed with gorgonzola and an anti-pasto plate.