SF News Six More Profiles Of Those 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
SF News Profiles Of Eight People Who Died In The Oakland Warehouse Fire Before crews suspended their search this morning for victims of the deadly fire at the Oakland artists' collective known as Ghost Ship over safety concerns relating to a "potentially collapsing exterior wall" in
Arts & Entertainment Ray Anderson, Avid Record Collector and Purveyor at Market Street's Grooves, Reportedly Dies at 77 The owner of 23-year-old record shop Grooves at Market and Octavia, Ray Anderson, has reportedly passed away. The news was reported by local friend Meggan Scavio via Twitter, and we await confirmation of
SF News Rose Pak Mourned, Celebrated At Big Wake And Funeral #RosePak It is a Chinatown holiday. Streets closed for Rose Pak funeral. pic.twitter.com/wtArf8ZtV2— C.W. Nevius (@cwnevius) September 24, 2016 The late Chinatown powerhouse Rose Pak, who died last weekend
SF News Chinatown Power Broker Rose Pak Dead At 68 Breaking news Sunday afternoon is that longtime Chinatown community leader and City Hall power player Rose Pak has died. The Examiner has word via Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was at Pak's home this
SF News Joani Blank, Founder Of Good Vibrations, Dies At Age 79 The founder of Good Vibrations, Joani Blank, passed away on Saturday at the age of 79. AVN reports that Blank died at her home of pancreatic cancer. Blank was considered a sex-positive feminist
SF News Steph Curry, LeBron James Share Remembrances About Muhammad Ali While the Bay Area boxing community has been mourning the loss of the Greatest of All Time boxer Muhammad Ali, basketball stars Steph Curry and LeBron James both took a moment to share
SF News Prince Died Of Accidental Fentanyl Overdose, According To Autopsy The long-awaited results of Prince's autopsy were released by Minnesota officials on Thursday, and the official cause of death is an accidental overdose of self-administered fentanyl, as the New York Times reports. Multiple
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Mill Valley Addiction Specialist Was Scheduled To Treat Prince Before His Death Though the toxicology report has yet to be completed in the untimely death of Prince two weeks ago, a new source is confirming that the singer did in fact have a serious opioid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prince Tribute Parties Planned Tonight In The Mission, Castro, And More No sooner did the news spread this morning that the great Prince was dead at age 57, but local party promoters and DJs were gathering up their Prince records and putting out the
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fans React To Sudden, Inconceivable Death Of Prince How could this happen? Details are still scarce, but the legend that was Prince Rogers Nelson is dead. Many of you are probably saying, "He was just here!" and "Why didn't I go
Arts & Entertainment Vanity, Prince Protege And 'Nasty Girl' Singer, Dies In Fremont Hospital At Age 57 News broke last night during the Grammy Awards that Vanity, a.k.a. Denise Matthews, the singer of one of several female-led groups that were created by Prince or spun off of Prince
SF News San Francisco, Donald Trump, And Twitter React To The Death Of Justice Antonin Scalia Saturday afternoon, the country ground to a halt as news broke of the death of senior Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia had flown Friday to a luxury hunting resort in the
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane's Last Remaining SF Resident News arrived late Thursday that Paul Kantner, one of the three vocalists in legendary San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane, has died at age 74 of multiple organ failure. Kantner was the
SF News San Francisco Celebrates The Life Of David Bowie As the world grieves the loss of David Bowie, San Franciscans have started what is sure to be a long process of saying goodbye to the legendary queer rocker. And much like the
SF News Carol Doda, '60s Stripping Sensation And Cultural Icon, Dead At 78 San Francisco grand dame and larger-than-life '60s cultural figure Carol Doda has died. The 78 year old was beloved and revered for her bare, entrepreneurial spirit not to mention her bare, once world-famous,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oaklanders Gather To Celebrate The Life Of Bar Owner Peter Van Kleef Back in the days before the Fox was renovated, and before Uptown was anything more than an archaic Oakland neighborhood designation that no one really used anymore, Cafe Van Kleef opened on a
Arts & Entertainment Mark Rucker, Associate Artistic Director Of A.C.T., Dies at 56 There was some tragic and unexpected news today in the local theater community. Talented and acclaimed theater director Mark Rucker, who has served as Associate Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater here in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chronicle Food Columnist GraceAnn Walden Dies A notoriously feisty monger of local restaurant gossip, GraceAnn Walden, has passed away suddenly of unknown causes. Walden was the founding columnist writing The Inside Scoop in the Chronicle, beginning in 1991, dealing
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Posts Moving Essay About Her Husband Dave Goldberg's Death To mark the end of her sheloshim, the first thirty days of Jewish mourning, acclaimed author and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has broken her silence on her husband's recent death. While on vacation
SF News Well Known Mountain Climber Dean Potter And One Other Die In BASE Jumping Accident At Yosemite A renowned climber and BASE jumper, who for years had flouted rules against BASE jumping in national parks, died Saturday along with another man in an accident involving wing suits, and a jump
SF News Sheryl Sandberg's Husband Dave Goldberg Died In Treadmill Accident The sudden death last week of SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, David Goldberg, was shrouded in a bit of mystery. But as of late yesterday news outlets were reporting
Arts & Entertainment Gary Dahl, The Man Who Invented The Iconic 1970s Fad Gift The Pet Rock, Dies Apart from mood rings and All In the Family, nothing quite evokes the mid-1970s like The Pet Rock a stroke of marketing genius from advertising copywriter Gary Dahl that went on to become
SF News Now Facebook Lets You Choose An Account Executor For When You Inevitably Die Facebook will outlive us all, or so the company suggests with a new policy that allows users to select a "legacy contact" to manage their accounts when they die. "Until now, when someone
Arts & Entertainment Rex Ray, SF-Based Artist And Designer, Dies At 58 Rex Ray, the San Francisco-based fine artist and graphic designer known for large-scale, brightly colored, 1960s-inspired, often psychedelic paintings, has succumbed today after a long battle with cancer. Ray, who'd been active on
