A Rick's Cafe's server looks at the poster announcing the 70th anniversary tribute to the 1942 movie "Casablanca" , in Casablanca, Morocco, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. A former U.S. diplomat spent two ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Seven decades after the premiere of the film classic "Casablanca," the Moroccan port city remains firmly associated in many people's minds with the movie, even though Rick's Cafe ...

You may remember Rick’s Café Americain as the gin joint in the movie Casablanca. For years Rick’s existed only on film. When Kathy Kriger, an American entrepreneur living in Casablanca, decided to ...

Ignore the outside, I said. I didn’t come to Rick’s for signage. I soon found out I couldn’t see the inside without a reservation, which I didn’t have. Dejected, I asked the host if I could make one ...

Here’s good news for those cinephiles who over the years have searched the streets of Casablanca in vain for the legendary Rick’s Cafe: a real Rick’s Cafe is scheduled to open on Feb. 29, to coincide ...

“I was amazed in my four years here that no one ever thought of establishing a Rick’s Cafe,” former diplomat Kathy Kriger says of the bar made famous in Casablanca. Kriger opened her restaurant and ...

When Kathy Kriger left the U.S. diplomatic service after 9/11, the liberal in her was alarmed at the global war on terrorism and wanted to make a symbolic stand for tolerance by investing in a Muslim ...

Seven decades after the premiere of the film classic “Casablanca,” the Moroccan port city remains firmly associated in many people’s minds with the movie, even though Rick’s Cafe Americain, where much ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Seven decades after the premiere of the film classic “Casablanca,” the Moroccan port city remains firmly associated in many people's minds with the movie, even though Rick's Cafe ...