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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Famed Crème Brûlée Cart Guy Curtis Kimball Has Died From a Heart Condition One of SF’s famed street food pioneers Curtis Kimball, first known as the Crème Brûlée Cart Guy and later as the Pancake Party Guy, died last week from an aortic aneurysm.
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.
SF News Fillmore Food Legend and Nia Soul Cafe Owner Pia Harris Has Died, Services This Weekend The Fillmore restaurant Nia Soul Cafe just opened last month after owner Pia Harris’s 15-year quest to make her catering business a brick-and-mortar restaurant. But Harris died from pancreatic disease complications just weeks after its grand opening.
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.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Born Metal Sculptor Richard Serra, Known As the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Has Died at 85 Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed Tuesday in New York from pneumonia.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Assistant Coach Dejan Milojević Dies of Sudden Heart Attack, Wednesday Night’s Game Postponed Golden State assistant coach Dejan Milojević is credited with developing Nikola Jokic and was considered a key component to the Warriors’ 2022 title run, but he died Wednesday morning after a sudden heart attack Tuesday night.
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.
SF News Oakland Hells Angels Founder Sonny Barger Has Died A figure in Hunter S. Thompson books who elevated the Hell’s Angels to a national movement, Oakland Hells Angels chapter founder Sonny Barger has passed away at 83.
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 At Least Three Bay Area Women Among Those Shot In Las Vegas, Two Fatally The first reports on some of the identities of the victims in Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas began trickling in late Monday, and we now have confirmation that 50-year-old Stacee Etcheber, a
Arts & Entertainment Local Music Legend Stephanie 'DJ Stef' Ornelas Passed Away Sunday At Age 55 My brother @williemaze came to my gig today 🤗 pic.twitter.com/WdbB3iOJsO— Stephanie O (@djstef415) September 17, 2017 Bay Area DJ and music legend Stephanie Ornelas, a.k.a. DJ Stef, passed away
SF News Pacifica School Loses Beloved Music Teacher To Freak Accident In School Parking Lot A beloved band director and music teacher tragically lost his life in Pacifica Wednesday morning to a freak accident involving his van. As ABC 7 reports, teacher Jerry Downs may have been trying
Arts & Entertainment Pioneering Trans Performer And Onetime Marilyn Monroe Impersonator Aleshia Brevard Dies At 79 One of the first trans women in the US to receive sexual reassignment surgery, and a performer known for small roles in film and television as well as her spot-on Marilyn Monroe impression
Arts & Entertainment Actor John Heard Found Dead In Palo Alto Hotel John Heard, the film, television and stage actor, was found dead on Friday in Palo Alto, California. He was 72. The actor had "minor back surgery" on Wednesday at Stanford Medical Center, according
SF News Afeni Shakur Davis, Mother Of Rapper Tupac Shakur, Dies In Marin County Afeni Shakur Davis, a political activist perhaps best known to the public as the mother of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, died Monday night following reports that she suffered a cardiac arrest in her
SF News Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO And Husband To Sheryl Sandberg, Dies Suddenly Dave Goldberg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the CEO of the popular website SurveyMonkey, died suddenly Friday. The cause of his death has not been reported. He was 47 years old. Goldberg had
SF News 'Father Of The Birth Control Pill,' Dr. Carl Djerassi, Dies At 91 Dr. Carl Djerassi, the so-called 'father of the pill,' died at his home in San Francisco on Friday from "complications due to cancer," according to a statement from his family on his
SF News Singer & Actress Lena Horne Dies at 92 Actor and singer Lena Horne died Sunday in New York. She was "was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on
SF News Man Delivers Own Obit, Then Hangs Self Dark news here, folks. A sick Placerville man, according to Associated Press, "delivered his own obituary to a newspaper then hanged himself from a nearby bridge." The body of Allan Leo Peters II,
SF News Senator Ted Kennedy, the "Liberal Lion," Dead at 77 Senator Edward Kennedy, noted blue blood brother, passed away at home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts late last night. He was 77. His family said, "We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family
SF News Update: Dolores Aguilar Obit Real After some debate on the authenticity of Dolores Aguilar's obit in the Vallejo Times-Herald, which if you recall was shockingly brutal, we got to the bottom of it all. Turns out Aguilar's obit
misc R.I.P., <del>Bitch</del> Dolores Aguilar Warms the heart, doesn't it? Above obit found in the Times-Herald Napa/Sonoma. Oh, and be sure to read the guestbook here. (Thanks Jameth!) UPDATE I: Cruel obit page pulled late Sunday afternoon.
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
