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
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Community Mourns Death Of Cookie Dough A beloved drag queen has died, and all too soon. Cookie Dough, a.k.a. Eddie Bell, succumbed to complications from meningitis at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco Thursday night. She was 52.
SF News Video: Mario Cuomo Speaking At The Democratic Convention In SF In 1984 In memory of Democratic leader, and New York's last liberal governor, Mario Cuomo, who passed away yesterday at age 82, here's a clip from Cuomo's inspiring keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
SF News Surviving Brown Twin Marian Has Died Marian Brown, a San Francisco grande dame best known as the surviving half of the iconic sister act The Brown Twins, has died. The news broke on Twitter and and was confirmed by
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Memorial In S.F. Draws Dozens Of Stars; Billy Crystal 'In Tears' On Saturday, Billy Crystal hosted a star-studded private memorial celebration of the late Robin Williams that drew dozens of his former costars, directors, and famous comedian friends, and included emotional tributes by his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers and Louis C.K. Have Sex RIP, Joan. You were the most biting of all biting comedians, and as the New York Times put it in their just-published obit, you "evolved from a sassy, self-deprecating performer early in [your]
SF News Robin Williams Committed Suicide By Hanging, Left No Note [Updated] A sad detail in the cause of Robin Williams' reported suicide has been confirmed today. Both TMZ and CBS are reporting, via the Marin County fire scanner audio, that the actor was found
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Dead At Age 63, Possibly By Suicide Robin Williams, the Oscar-winning actor and stand-up comedian who's lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, was found dead in his Tiburon, California home on Monday, as the Marin Sheriff's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Community Mourns Loss Of Chris L'Hommedieu The local chef community lost one of its own at far too young an age this week. Chris L'Hommedieu, a chef's chef and often-cited mentor, died at the age of 44 of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Loved Bartender Erik Dean Killed In Motorcyle Accident A beloved bartender, recently employed at Absinthe, but with a long history in the S.F. bar and restaurant scene, died last week in a motorcycle accident. His life will be celebrated at
SF News Video: Maya Angelou Memorialized In Public Service In San Francisco In her will, Dr. Maya Angelou had requested that her public memorial service be held at a church, and in a city, that she loved: Glide Memorial in San Francisco. The service happened
SF News How Maya Angelou Became San Francisco's First African-American Female Streetcar Conductor In 1944, at the age of 16, Maya Angelou walked into Muni's personnel department to ask for an application to become a streetcar conductor. She had moved to San Francisco from St. Louis
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Frankie Knuckles' 'The Whistle Song' The house music and DJ communities lost a legend yesterday. Producer and DJ Frankie Knuckles passed away at the age of 59, and there's been a lot of mourning him on Facebook and
Arts & Entertainment Popular Circuit DJ Peter Rauhofer Dies Peter Rauhofer, a name known to many who have attended big club parties, listened to a remix of a pop song, or gone to a gay circuit event in the last decade and
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Lady T, A Lower Haight Legend Lady T, center, with Cockfight go-go boys. Photo: Georg Lester S.F. is a town full of characters, and today we bring you the sad news that one of them has passed away.
SF News PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford Dies at 92 Jeanne Manford, who in 1973 decided to march beside her gay son in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March (later known as the New York Gay Pride parade) and went on to found
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Phyllis Diller Roasts Joan Collins We just heard the news about Phyllis Diller's passing at age 95, and we're heartbroken. She was a pioneering female comedian who inspired pretty much every other funny woman who's taken the stage
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Anthem Singer Scott McKenzie Dies at 73 It's the song that drew thousands of hippie kids to a chilly San Francisco summer 45 years ago, when an unpopular war was raging in Vietnam and our city by the Bay was
Arts & Entertainment Tony Sly, No Use For A Name Frontman, Dead At Age 41 Tony Sly, singer and principal songwriter for noted San Jose, California hardcore punk outfit No Use for a Name has passed away at age 41. His cause of death has not yet been
