San Francisco always has had a cast of zany characters. For this week’s installment of SFCentric History, I will take a look at one of those characters in particular–Daisy Simpson, a woman who left a seedy past behind to become one of the few female Federal Prohibition agents, only to return to the other side of the law soon thereafter.

  ‘Tis a real life, old school, 1920s dance hall complete with taxi dancers. Don’t know how to dance the dance or not be a wallflower? Luckily for you, there will be dance lessons on hand including how to use a dance card. You know, for those of us who

  ‘Tis a real life, old school, 1920s dance hall complete with taxi dancers. Don’t know how to dance the dance or not be a wallflower? Luckily for you, there will be dance lessons on hand including how to use a dance card. You know, for those of us who

I don’t usually head out to Jersey on a Saturday night, but this looks really, really cool.  The community-run, depression-era grand Loew’s Movie Palace in Jersey City is showing two films from the 1920s today: the Marx Brothers’ first film The Cocoanuts (1929) at 4pm, and Safety Last with live