New (a la Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer) or scrappy immigrant street kids and shtarkers getting ahead by any means necessary, an image helped along by the real-life exploits of Jewish (or Jew-ish) boxers like Max Baer and Jake LaMotta, and less...

PLAINS — Entrepreneurs plan to build a distillery in town and make spirits that give a nod to two forms of history. One is the farm theyre using is the former digs of none other than Prohibition-era bootlegger and mobster Dutch Schultz, who died in 1935.

In 1912, Pearl Adler, a 12-year old girl from the small village of Yanow, Russia, embarked on a long, perilous oceanic journey. For support, the young girl, whom her family called “Polly,” had nothing more with her than the high expectations of her...

Rejoice! Dutch’s Spirits is a new craft distillery that’s located on the grounds of a former bootlegging operation – so they’ve got the history, and they’ve certainly got the booze. Apparently, the mobster Dutch Schultz used to run the old haunt, and...

PLAINS, N.Y. , Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dutch's Spirits®, a New York State craft distillery is reviving the sprawling historic grounds of a former clandestine bootlegging operation financed by the iconic mobster, Dutch Schultz. Named for both the...

Orleans, where he played in the pit orchestra of Hot Chocolate, written by Andy Razaf and pianist, composer Fats Waller and stealing the show with his rendition of “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, his biggest selling record to date. Later, he worked at Connie’s...