Arts & Entertainment Zion I Rapper Baba Zumbi Dies In Berkeley Hospital After 'Altercation' During Treatment for COVID Baba Zumbi, whose real name was Stephen Gaines, died early Friday at Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley at the age of 49, possibly from complications related to COVID-19 — though police are also investigating an altercation he was allegedly involved in with hospital staff just before he died.
SF News Real-Life 'Rosie the Riveter,' Phyllis Gould, Among First Six Women Hired at Richmond Shipyard In WWII, Dies at 99 A pioneer among independent women in the blue-collar workforce in America, one-time WWII-era welder Phyllis Gould, who went on to fight for national recognition for herself an other "Rosies," died last week at her home in Fairfax. She was 99.
SF News Donald Rumsfeld Is Dead Unapologetic war hawk Donald Rumsfeld went to his grave this week believing that the Iraq War was justified and that he was on the right side of history. We'll see about that.
SF News Infamous Tech Entrepreneur Turned Fugitive Expat John McAfee Found Dead In Spanish Jail Cell John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software who has made headlines many times in the last decade for his legal troubles and presidential runs, was found dead in a jail cell in Spain late Wednesday, hours after a court approved his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges.
SF News Onetime SF Socialite Ann Miller, Who Left the City to Become a Nun 30 Years Ago, Dies at 92 A wealthy San Francisco socialite who hobnobbed with Nancy Reagan, claimed Phyllis Diller as a friend, and collected loads of designer shoes before giving everything up to take a vow of silence and become a nun, has died. She was 92.
Arts & Entertainment Phatima Rude, Queer Punk Drag Icon of SF Scene, Dies at 55 Phatima Rude, a drag queen who helped to define the raw and genderqueer aesthetics of San Francisco's drag scene of the 1990s and early 2000s, was found dead in their Portland, Oregon home on Tuesday. They were 55.
SF News Well Known 86-Year-Old Cyclist Killed In East Bay Collision An 86-year-old man who was well known in the Lamorinda area for bicycling hundreds of miles every week and advocating for bike safety on the roads was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday less than a mile from his home.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Poet and City Lights Founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet laureate of San Francisco and one of the last surviving figures Beat Generation, has died just shy of his 102nd birthday. His son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti confirmed his passing, saying that he died at his home in North Beach on Monday evening.
SF News Pioneering SF Gay Activist Ken Jones Dies at 70 One of San Francisco's longest-serving LGBTQ activists, Ken Jones, lost his battle with bladder cancer this week. He died Wednesday at the age of 70, and his local community of friends is mourning the loss.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Known Local Surfer and Pacifica Pie Maker Dies Following Accident at Fort Point A San Francisco native who loved surfing the coast up and down the Peninsula has died following what's being described as a freak accident beneath the Golden Gate Bridge on a day of extreme waves last week.
Arts & Entertainment Remembering Bambi Lake: A Short Film and a Formal Obituary On Wednesday, San Francisco lost another legend when performer and notorious local character Bambi Lake succumbed to cancer at age 70. Here is a formal obituary, as well as a 2015 short film about her life by director Silas Howard.
Arts & Entertainment Noted San Francisco Troublemaker, Fringe Legend and Cabaret Performer Bambi Lake Is Dead at 70 "Bambi blazed trails and burned bridges for many decades but she always remained a dreamer," writes Justin Vivian Bond today, on the death of longtime friend, Bambi Lake. "It feels like the end of an era."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cecilia Chiang, SF Restaurant Legend Who Introduced America to Good Chinese Food, Dies at 100 She had hung on through her 90s as a cheerful bon vivant who liked a glass or Champagne at local food events, but at age 100 she is gone.
Arts & Entertainment Diane di Prima, Noted Female Voice in the Beat Generation Boys' Club, Dies at 86 Onetime San Francisco Poet Laureate and one of the only feminist voices to keep company with the Beat Generation, Diane di Prima, has died.
SF News SF Lesbian Pioneer Phyllis Lyon Dies at Age 95 One of the founding members of the Daughters of Bilitis and one half of the first same-sex couple to be legally married in San Francisco in 2004, Phyllis Lyon, has passed away. She was 95, and reportedly died of natural causes early Thursday.
Bay Area Sports Local Hot Dog Vendor and Baseball Park Fixture Jimmy Graff Dies at 49 He started slinging sodas at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium at the age of 10. 39 years later he was well known to local baseball fans at A's games for selling old-fashioned hot dogs out of a steamer box he carried around the stadium.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Rocker Eddie Money Dies at 70 Eddie Money, a hitmaker of the 1980s pop rock scene with songs like "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Two Tickets to Paradise," has died at the age of 70. The cause was complications from esophageal cancer.
SF News Lyle Tuttle, SF’s ‘Father of Modern Tattooing,’ Has Died at 87 Tuttle’s tattooing career spanned more than 70 years, placing his ink upon Cher, Janis Joplin, and the Allman Brothers.
SF News Famed Skateboarder and Thrasher Magazine Editor Jake Phelps Has Died at 56 Young and old skate punks alike have heavy hearts today. The legendary skateboarding activist and editor-in-chief of Thrasher ran the magazine for 26 years.
Arts & Entertainment Stephen Parr, Archivist Of The Film World's Oddest Artifacts, Dies At 63 Film mavens and filmmakers in San Francisco have long known about the marvelous, lovingly curated series known under the names "Strange Sinema," "Cinema Soiree" and others in which Oddball Films and SF Media
SF News Those Who Lost Their Lives In Wine Country Fires Include Disabled Woman, Dozens Of Retirees One week after a fast-moving wildfire tore through several neighborhoods in Santa Rosa just as multiple other fires were igniting in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Yuba and several other counties, we are getting
SF News Surfing Legend And Wetsuit Pioneer Jack O'Neill Dies At 94 You may not know that the wetsuit was invented in San Francisco, but by some accounts it was, and its creator has just died after a long life in Northern California surf community.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Author Denis Johnson Dies At 67 Acclaimed fiction writer, poet, and playwright Denis Johnson, most famous for his short story collection Jesus' Son which was turned into a 1999 film of the same name, died Wednesday at the age
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Henry Chung Of Henry's Hunan Restaurants Dies At 99 Henry Chung, namesake of Henry's Hunan chain of restaurants, died last weekend in the Richmond District at age 99. Chung's empire of restaurants helped popularize regional Chinese cuisine marked by heavy use of
Arts & Entertainment Gilbert Baker, Creator Of The Rainbow Flag, Dies at 65 As announced by his longtime friend Cleve Jones on Facebook, Gilbert Baker, the creator of the first rainbow flag to symbolize gay equality, has died. He was 65. Jones recently spoke to SFist
