Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dia De Los Muertos In The Mission Dia de los Muertos (or the preferable Romeroesque English translation, "Day of the Dead") had its annual procession in the Mission on Friday. Scores of people showed up dressed in white face to
SF News To Ward Off Evil Spirits, Man Slathers Vegetable Oil On Headstones Spirits haunting the Chapel of the Chimes Memorial Park in Hayward got a little Wessonality last week after a man covered an estimated 150 headstones with vegetable oil. Deepak Sandhar Singh of Hayward
SF News Body Found at Geary and Gough According to reports, traffic on Geary at Gough and Franklin moves sluggish this morning after a dead body near St. Mary's Cathedral. SF Appeal notes: "Police responded to the area at 7:40,
SF News Noted Filmmaker George Kuchar Dies An inspiration for artists like John Waters, among others, local filmmaker George Kuchar died on September 6 following a battle with cancer. The San Francisco Art Institute released the following statement today: "It
SF News Cyclist Hurt In Collision With Truck Dies Nancy Ho, the 25-year-old helmetless cyclist who was crashed into a truck at Fremont and Mission on Tuesday morning, succumbed to her injuries and died. If you recall, "Nancy Ho, of San Francisco,
SF News Photos: Dead Whale Washes Ashore at Bean Hollow State Beach Troy Holden of Caliber snapped these shots of a dead pregnant whale that washed ashore two weeks ago near Bean Hollow Beach in Pesacadero. Holden told SFist that, after arriving at the beach,
SF News Patrick Swayze, Dead According to Associated Press, "a publicist for Patrick Swayze says the Dirty Dancing actor has died." He succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Named the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991 by People
SF News SF Wax Museum Gets New Michael Jackson Figure In honor of Michael Jackson's 51st birthday, and in remembrance of his untimely murder, the San Francisco Wax Museum will get a new Jacko wax statue to go along with the one they
SF News Giants Partner Sue Burns Dies According to Henry Schulman at SFGate, San Francisco Giants senior general partner Sue Burns, the team's largest shareholder, died "overnight at 58 after learning she had cancer a little more than a week
SF News Karl Malden, Dead at 97 Karl Malden, star of stage, screen and TV commercials, died yesterday. He was 97. Born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 - July 1, 2009, this crusty-but-benign thespian could play second fiddle like
SF News Billy Mays Found Dead Billy Mays, 50, famously loud and bearded informmercial spokesman, died this morning. (Egads! First Ed, Farrah, Jackson, now this. Too much to bear, folks.) According to reports, Mays finished wrapping up an Oxiclean
SF News Roundup of Michael Jackson Coverage A UPS man cries. A Chron staff writer goes to Rasputin, interviews folks. Toxicology results, predictably, not coming for weeks. MJ's individual Walk of Fame star at Graumann's Chinese is inaccessible today because
SF News Michael Jackson, Dead at 50 According to TMZ, "Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse
SF News Farrah Fawcett, Dead at 62 RIP, Farrah. While she's best remembered for her seminal work in Charlie's Angels and bestowing the world with a signature hairstyle, we'll remember Fawcett best as Francine Hughes, an abused wife in the
SF News Porn Star Marilyn Chambers, Dead Following on the heels of gay porn star Jack Wrangler's death, (in)famous porn star Marilyn Chambers died Sunday. She was 56. According to reports, her 17-year-old daughter found her body at her
SF News 16-Year-Old Confesses to Killing Former KGO Reporter In yet another close call with pederasty (thanks, Joel!), KGO sees tragedy befall another radio hosts. If you recall, news reporter George Weber was found dead in his NYC apartment with a stab
SF News Deep Throat, Dead Baby boomer icon of mystery Deep Throat, AKA W. Mark Felt, died yesterday in Santa Rosa after suffering congestive heart failure. He was 95. elt was once second-in-command at the FBI. He snitched
SF News Pedestrian Struck, Killed Near Japantown Although the car's driver has a green light and there was no indication of speeding, according to police reports, an unidentified elderly man was killed by a car after trying to cross Geary
SF News Body Found in San Francisco Academy of Art/Crunch Fitness Elevator Over the Weekend A body was stuck in the Crunch Fitness/Academy of Art elevator on New Montgomerey over the weekend. Word is that the unidentified male or female died while trapped in the elevator. We
misc John McCain is Dead At least he is in this elaborate, spooktacular, very San Francisco Halloween display, found outside a Glen Park home. Curious, yes? But we think they should have added pantyhose to Palin's legs --
SF News Former Raider and NFL Union Head Gene Upshaw Dies Oakland Raiders Hall of Fame guard and union leader Gene Upshaw died last night at his Lake Tahoe home. He was 63. Having been diagnosed last Satuday with pancreatic cancer, the death comes
misc R.I.P., Estelle Getty No, no, thank you for being a friend, Sophia Petrillo. Sniff, sob. Getty died at her home on Hollywood Boulevard in LA. She was 84. (Yeah, yeah, there's no SF relation here, but
SF News Dead Body rolls up at Stinson Beach A body so badly decomposed that the coroner's office has yet to determine its sex, age, race, or how it bit it, washed up on the "northern edge of the beach beginning around
SF News George Carlin, Dead at 71 Inspiration to many left-leaning political activists, writers, and observational humorists, comedian/social satirist/pottymouth George Carlin died of heart failure today at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 71. Above
SF News RIP: Father of LSD, Albert Hofmann Speaking of Santa Cruz, the inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, died on Tuesday at his Switzerland home. He was a ripe 102. The Swiss chemist happened upon lysergic acid diethylamide-25 way back in
