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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pioneering Diner Proprietor Bette Kroening, Of Bette's Oceanview Diner, Dies At 71 The Bay Area's food world lost another of its most pioneering generation last week as we learn of the passing of Bette Kroening, owner and constant presence at Berkeley's Bette's Oceanview Diner. She
SF News Video: RIP Sutter Brown, Governor Jerry Brown's Famous Corgi .mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%} Sad news from Sacramento Friday, and another
Arts & Entertainment Carrie Fisher Tributes Pop Up Around San Francisco Castro street memorial to Carrie #princessleia #generalleiaorgana #castrostreet #sanfrancisco #youremyonlyhope A photo posted by rachaelschafer (@rachaelschaferdesigns) on Dec 27, 2016 at 3:15pm PST The late, great Carrie Fisher whom some of us
Arts & Entertainment Castro Bars Blare George Michael Hits, In Mourning Of A Gay Icon The passing of a gay icon like George Michael, way before his time, will continue to hit hard in the Castro and around the Bay Area for days to come a devastating blow
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 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
SF News Profiles Of Seven More Creative Souls Lost In Oakland's Ghost Ship Fire 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. Here
