Arts & Entertainment More UGH: Ghost Ship Fire Inspires Three Connected NBC Procedural Dramas Wednesday We learned last week of the crass move by Dick Wolf's production enterprise to base an episode of NBC's Chicago Fire on the barely three-month-old tragedy at Oakland's Ghost Ship warehouse. The ripped-from-the-headlines
SF News As New Oakland Police Chief Is Sworn In, Officers Are Ordered To Report All Unpermitted Parties After an order was given, rescinded, and then re-issued last week by Oakland's assistant police chief David Downing, Oakland Police officers are now being instructed to report all unpermitted events and gatherings that
Arts & Entertainment UGH: NBC's 'Chicago Fire' To Air Episode Inspired By Ghost Ship Fire File under gross things that TV executives do: Oakland's barely two-month-old tragedy, the December 2nd fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse space that took the lives of 36 people, is already getting a
SF News Oakland City Records Show Police And Firefighters Had Both Been In Ghost Ship Space; Fire Chief Goes On Leave The City of Oakland released a trove of documents Wednesday pertaining to the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, and as the Chronicle and others are reporting, they reveal what we already mostly knew:
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship Proprietor Now Arguing That Fire Started Next Door The trial-by-media for Ghost Ship proprietor Derick Almena predictably continues, now seven weeks since the deadly blaze tore through the live-work warehouse he designed and managed and took the lives of 36 people.
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Survivor Remains In Critical Condition Six Weeks Later One of just a couple of people who were hospitalized after escaping the Ghost Ship fire on December 2 in Oakland, 32-year-old Sam "Peaches" Maxwell is surviving proof of how deadly the conditions
SF News Post-Ghost Ship, Dwellers At Three SF Warehouses Ordered By City To Vacate The fallout, both legal and logistical, from the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland in early December is going to continue for years to come. But in the initial wave of complaints and inspections
SF News SF And Oakland Hold Community Forums On Warehouse And Live-Work Spaces The landlord of an arts space brought together tenants and city officials to discuss fire safety Tuesday night https://t.co/XqrPx9uiiT pic.twitter.com/KWOWrNe2qp— Mission Local (@MLNow) January 4, 2017 On
SF News 13,000 Sign Petition Asking For Fire Inspections That Lead To Artist Evictions To Stop An online petition, which as of Wednesday had garnered 10,000 signatures and is now up to 13,000, was delivered to San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection on Wednesday by 25-year-old SF
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship's Derick Almena: 'He Should Not Be Made A Scapegoat' The legal team that will be representing Derick Ion Almena, the founder of Oakland's Ghost Ship collective and the man many say is responsible for the unsafe construction, wiring, and lack of proper
SF News Ghost Ship Manager Derick Almena Will Be Represented By Attorney Tony Serra Tony Serra, 81, has defended Huey Newton, Sarah Jane Olson, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, and many more, and it looks as if his next case could be that of Ghost Ship proprietor/building
Arts & Entertainment Video: Heartbreaking Tribute To The 36 Artists Who Perished In Ghost Ship Fire As friends, family, and the community at large continue to mourn those who perished in the December 2 Ghost Ship fire, KQED Arts has released a video honoring the dead. The video consists
SF News Steph Curry Auctions Off Shoes Honoring Ghost Ship Victims, First Wears Them To Walk All Over The Knicks Joining the fundraising effort personally and commemorating those lost in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire of December 2, Warriors guard Steph Curry sported a special pair of custom shoes as his Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'Oakland United' Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Featuring Hieroglyphics, Tune-Yards, Primus, And More Fans joined hands, heard from victims' loved ones, and swayed to emotionally resonant music at the Fox Theater last night in a powerful fundraiser concert presented by Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop
SF News SF Is 'Spot-Checking' 10 Warehouses That Could Be Illegal Residences While Oakland Is Avoiding Such 'Witch Hunts' In the aftermath of the deadly Ghost Ship fire in East Oakland 12 days ago, it was assumed by many that other similar warehouses that had been converted into illegal live-work spaces or
SF News [Update] Overloaded Electrical Lines Named As Cause Of Ghost Ship Fire The East Bay Times, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Oakland fire story and its many narrative branches, has just reported the breaking news that, according to
SF News Letter From The Editor: 2016, You Are Literally Killing Us I've struggled mightily, as most of us have in the Bay Area, with how to address the close of this terrible year, and the aftermath of a suicide-inducing election, and to make some
SF News Ghost Ship Survivors Tell Stories Of Being 'Chased' By Fire, Leaving Friends Behind While we've spent much of the last week following the fire investigation and profiling the 36 dead in Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, there have been notably few first-person accounts to trickle out from
Arts & Entertainment Video: Patti Smith Dedicates Performance To Oakland Fire Victims At an event last week in New York celebrating the 20th birthday of Democracy Now!, Patti Smith sang a stirring rendition of "Peaceable Kingdom," a song that she wrote with Tony Shanahan to
SF News Journalists Try, But Fail To Track Down Ghost Ship Landlord Chor Ng Journalists working for both the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle have spent the last few days with boots on the ground in Oakland, using property records to survey the various
SF News Friends And Former Friends Paint Conflicting Pictures Of Ghost Ship Founders Derick Almena And Micah Allison In the seven days since the tragic inferno at Oakland artist enclave called Ghost Ship, some of the expected finger-pointing has been aimed at the city and its inspections apparatus, and some has
SF News Profiles Of The Final Nine Ghost Ship Fire Victims SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here was the first group of eight, the second group of six, another seven,
SF News Child Protective Services Allegedly Inside Ghost Ship Days Before Fire The story of the tragic Ghost Ship fire has become one of warnings both missed and ignored. Former friends of master tenant Derick Ion Almena say they told him that his space was
SF News Oakland Fire Victims Included These Six Artists And Creative Forces As the names of the missing officially become the names of the dead, SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. The
Arts & Entertainment Nine Events Supporting Ghost Ship Fire Victims And Their Families With the Bay Area arts scene gutted and shaken to the core by the tragic loss of life resulting from the Ghost Ship fire, numerous relief efforts have sprung up to benefit the
