March 16, 2009 Welcome to the St. James Infirmary, a nightclub world inhabited by gamblers, prizefighters and femme fatales. The music is hot, the drinks are cold, and the stakes are high. And when a ...

Ending more than a year of silence on who's in charge, St. James Infirmary announced July 13 that it is going forward without an executive director as the nonprofit that serves sex workers shifts to a ...

Born from a need to protect sex workers’ rights, St. James Infirmary opened as a health care clinic for current and former sex workers. Founded from a government collaboration with two nonprofits, the ...

French double bassist Benjamin Duboc belongs to the elite of the European free improvisation scene. He is a musician with a unique command of the bull fiddle, employing a wide array of inventive and ...

"Wake up, Mama, don't you sleep so hard." When Blind Willie McTell sings that, I don't know if the woman he addresses is alive or dead. Maybe he doesn't know. He repeats the line: "Wake up, Mama, ...

There's been few icons of sexual liberation quite like Margo St. James. The founder of the sex worker activist group COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973, the Hooker's Ball (1974-1978) and ...

The first thing you do when you hear the late great Allen Toussant’s take "St. James Infirmary" is at the first imprint of sound consider the amount of times this anonymous standard has been recorded, ...

The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development has ordered St. James Infirmary to investigate a claim by a trans woman that she is a victim of sexual retaliation by some of the ...