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 ...

I arrived in Casablanca a couple of weeks ago, toward the end of a month-long trip through West and North Africa, fulfilling a dream of visiting a city whose name had evoked images of romance and ...

She opened her own Rick’s Cafe, in 2004, in a converted old house in Casablanca’s Ancienne Medina, or old city, and ran the establishment for 14 years. And when she arrived in Morocco, the ...

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 ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Some things get better as time goes by. Rick’s Café may be one of them. Chris Kelley of Bath, England, stopped there one recent day for lunch on his way to a kite-surfing ...

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 ...

Seventy years ago today, the first wave of filmgoers wept as the plane to Lisbon buzzed over Rick’s Café. If the unassuming New York City premiere of Casablanca was any indication, few suspected the ...

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 ...

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 ...