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 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 Giants Honor Robin Williams With Billy Crystal, Williams' Children Throwing Out First Pitch At the opening of what turned out to be a triumphant, shutout Game 5 of the World Series for the Giants on Sunday, a tribute montage played on the Jumbotron honoring the late
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Arturo Galster, S.F. Drag Performer Known For A Spot-On Patsy Cline [Updated] San Francisco lost a legendary figure in the arts and drag community this week with the passing of Arturo Galster. Tributes to the performer — known for his impeccable Patsy Cline and appearance in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Garner ca. 1964 For your little afternoon break, please appreciate James Garner acting his ass off in this brief scene from The Americanization of Emily (1964), also starring Julie Andrews. He delivers a monologue about war
SF News Pioneering Gay Activist Jose Sarria Dies At Age 90 Jose Julio Sarria, who in 1961 became the first openly gay person to run for political office in the U.S. running unsuccessfully for the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco died at
Arts & Entertainment Rest In Peace, Corie Woods SFist was saddened to hear that Corie Woods, the author of this week's SFist Memoirs article paying tribute to the late Warren Hellman and his Hardly Strictly Bluegrass legacy, passed away suddenly on
SF News Another Child Star, Gary Coleman, Dies Before His Time We don't know the full details just yet, but we'd heard that former child star Gary Coleman was hospitalized in Utah after falling in his home, and he has now died at the
SF News August Coppola, Brother of Francis, Creator of Tactile Dome, Dies at 75 August Coppola, who served as dean of the College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State and who created the famed Tactile Dome at the Exploratorium, died last week at his home in
misc The Late Jim Carroll, Nico and a Pile of Cocaine in SF, ca. 1978 Rounding out the Summer of Death (TM), and in addition to yesterday's loss of Patrick Swayze, we shouldn't neglect to mention the death of punk musician, poet and Basketball Diaries scribe Jim Carroll
SF News The Full Video of the Michael Jackson Memorial Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC giveth, and we couldn't resist. So here it is, all 3 hours of it for your scanning pleasure, in
SF News Our Last Roundup of MJ Memorial Coverage Great man, brilliant musician, bizarre icon, lover of children -- whatever you think of him, he has passed on to next plane of life. And much like they would for the death of
SF News Now We Think We Get What's Going On With Neverland The details were fuzzier before, and it seemed like the place was being prepped for some kind of exposure. Now it is becoming clear that the co-owners of Neverland, a real estate firm
SF News Michael Jackson Funeral Set for Tuesday Sadly, for all concerned -- including the deceased -- Michael Jackson's public memorial is going to take place at the Staples Center, Tuesday, July 7th at 10 a.m. and tickets will cost
SF News Roundup of Michael Jackson Coverage A UPS man cries. A Chron staff writer goes to Rasputin, interviews folks. Toxicology results, predictably, not coming for weeks. MJ's individual Walk of Fame star at Graumann's Chinese is inaccessible today because
SF News George Carlin, Dead at 71 Inspiration to many left-leaning political activists, writers, and observational humorists, comedian/social satirist/pottymouth George Carlin died of heart failure today at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 71. Above
SF News RIP: Father of LSD, Albert Hofmann Speaking of Santa Cruz, the inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, died on Tuesday at his Switzerland home. He was a ripe 102. The Swiss chemist happened upon lysergic acid diethylamide-25 way back in
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 10 This kind of image makes us fall in like-like with San Francisco all over again. Someone just ripped out an article about the passing of Robert Goulet, and taped it up to a
