Arts & Entertainment Tony! Toni! Toné! Co-Founder and Oakland Native D'Wayne Wiggins Has Died A year-long bout with bladder cancer has taken the life of Tony! Toni! Toné!'s D'Wayne Wiggins, who had three Top 10 hits with that group, and helped launch the careers of Destiny's Child and Beyonce.
Arts & Entertainment Popular SF Artist Pete Doolittle, Known For Making Paintings Out of Discarded Windows, Has Died Pete Doolittle’s paintings of cartoon-version robots and animals have been hanging in San Francisco homes and bars for decades, but the longtime SF artist passed away Thursday morning at the age of 47.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Grateful Dead Bass Player Phil Lesh Has Died at 84 Grief will ripple through the Bay Area music community today, as the family of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh announced that he passed away peacefully early Friday morning.
SF News OJ Simpson Has Died at Age 76, His Family Announces While known for a stellar football career and a bizarre high-profile murder trial that gripped the nation, OJ Simpson was also a San Francisco native who attended Galileo High and City College. He died Wednesday of prostate cancer.
SF News U.S. Olympian, Surfer, and Famed Bay Area Swim Coach Richard Thornton Dies at 65 1980 U.S. Olympic swim team member, former U.S. national team swim coach, and four-decade coach of San Ramon Valley Aquatics Richard Thornton died while heading out to surf in Santa Cruz on Thursday, according to his family.
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria's Grand Drag Funeral at S.F.'s Grace Cathedral Not wanting to leave anything to chance, or to the event planning abilities of others, pioneering LGBT activist Jose Sarria laid out specific instructions for how his funeral would go down. His Imperial
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Widow Norton,' The Documentary Given that today is officially, by city proclamation, a day of remembrance for Jose Sarria, Empress I, the Widow Norton, we bring you this ten-minute clip of a 2006 documentary by Billy Clift
SF News Elaborate Drag Funeral Tomorrow For Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, there will be a drag funeral on Nob Hill the likes of which have perhaps never been seen before in San Francisco, or anywhere. We're talking about the "state
SF News Pioneering Gay Activist Jose Sarria Dies At Age 90 Jose Julio Sarria, who in 1961 became the first openly gay person to run for political office in the U.S. running unsuccessfully for the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco died at
SF News One Of Three Remaining 1906 Quake Survivors Dies At Age 107 As you may recall, none of the three known, still-kicking survivors of the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 was able to make it for the anniversary festivities this past April 18 because
Arts & Entertainment Matt Groening's Mother Dies, Leaves Behind Simpsons-esque Obit When Simpsons creator Matt Groening's mother, Margaret (or Marge, as her friends knew her), died last month at the age of 94, a wonderful obituary was printed in a Portland, Oregon newspaper, which
