The Beat Museum

from the streets of north beach and beyond?all the sleaze, drugs, trailblazing strippers, and punks acting out, timothy leary performing at a broadway nightclub, sheer rock-and-roll madness at the mabuhay?all in a night's work in hanna's world.ever since we went public with michael palumbo’s initial sketch of what a new beat museum building at 580 green street might look like, the feature that seems to inspire the greatest curiosity is the suggestion of a beat hotel. sure, it might seem like an odd idea, however, it isn’t without precedent: the original […]last week, i slithered back into the beat museum in san francisco, arriving by sheer chance. turns out the museum is currently angling to raise a cool few million so it can buy a new facility up the street. within minutes, director jerry cimino and i found ourselves venting?er, contemplating?the current generations of tech in […]