Police arrested the dancer Carol Doda in a San Francisco bar in 1965 and charged her with lewd conduct and indecent exposure. Imagine the scene: a giant white grand piano emerging from the ceiling of ...

Stephanie “Tanqueray” Johnson’s life was nothing short of a movie — a whirlwind of grit, glamour, and survival. She escaped a strict religious home and a life of poverty to light up the stages of ...