A look back at the neighborhood jazz scene of half a century ago.

With a collection that's outgrown its space, the Beat Museum is looking to purchase a new building in North Beach, and potentially add a Beat Cafe and Hotel.

The troupe, which did 13 shows a week during the 1960s, became a major influence on comedians ranging from John Belushi to Tina Fey.

For nearly 60 years, the Purple Onion was a place for up-and-coming talent as diverse as Phyllis Diller, the Smothers Brothers and Maya Angelou.

The current strip club was once a proving ground, run by the iconoclastic Enrico Banducci, for up-and-coming talents such as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce and Peter Paul and Mary.

Read the backstory behind an unusual mural and its mysterious moves throughout the decades.

Decades before drag shows became ubiquitous, celebrities from Howard Hughes to Frank Sinatra watched female impersonators perform at this North Beach club.

It's no wonder Broadway is known for its abundance of strip clubs: topless entertainment got its start there in the mid-'60s.

Grab your flapper dress and Gatsby-era suit: Tickets for The Speakeasy, an immersive Prohibition-era theater experience, go on sale next month.

"The Barbary Coast," co-written and directed by Gibson, will tell the tale of the city's wild and nefarious beginnings.

"Chance," set in SF, has been picked up for two seasons by Hulu. It'll kick off its shoot with a major fight scene in Washington Square Park on Friday.

You've heard about the CIA's Cold War-era LSD-fueled experiments, but did you know that one of the more depraved ongoing operations took place inside a Telegraph Hill house at 225 Chestnut St.?

From historical struggles to current-day patrons of the Chinatown YMCA, Rene Yung's new work takes on the Chinese-American immigrant experience.