Hello Kitty is celebrating its 50th anniversary on 1 November. The Japanese pop culture icon has attracted fans of all ages across the world. It's become a symbol of Japanese 'kawaii' (cute ...

Friday marks half a century since Japanese merchandising company Sanrio created the first iteration of Kitty White, or Hello Kitty, a cheerful feline girl (not, as her creator controversially ...

Hello Kitty, arguably Japan's best loved creation, is celebrating her 50th anniversary. But all has not always been well at Sanrio, the Japanese company behind the character. The business has been ...

Tiffenii Mumphrey isn’t a big drinker. But on election night 2016, she readied a bottle of Korbel champagne to toast to America’s first female president. “I wanted to celebrate that moment ...

My home is always stocked with bottles of red wine and chilled whites since I enjoy sipping on a glass or two throughout the week. While I have my go-to pinot noirs and sauvignon blancs (my wines ...

Mr. Fishman is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Savage Feast.” Everywhere you look these days, people are turning away from alcohol. First there was Dry January. Now there’s Sober ...

Ontario grocery stores — particularly smaller, independent shops — say new bottle return requirements ... start stocking their shelves with beer, wine and coolers as of Thursday, the next ...

It turns out that some UCF students are convinced that the professor was fired from his position because he made his Hello Kitty-obsessed girlfriend his teaching assistant. But with UCF mods ...

Jay-Z's champagne brand Armand de Brignac has announced its first vintage offering, called Blanc de Noirs Vintage 2015. A 1.5L magnum bottle — a limited edition item — will retail for $3,400 ...

"In France, for example, Hello Kitty only got popular once she got eyelashes; in Italy you can get a bottle of wine with a Hello Kitty label, something that would be unthinkable in Japan." ...

As in all things, it pays off to be a strategic packer—especially when you are coming back from a trip with one, two, or more bottles of wine or spirits you purchased at your destination.