SF News Arsonist Strikes 'Mrs. Doubtfire' House The stately home featured in the 1993 Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire was struck by an arsonist last night according to the San Francisco Police Department. A veritable Pacific Heights tourist attraction since
SF News Among SF's Top Searches Of 2014 Were Robin Williams, The Giants, And How To Macrame Google has released their 2014 Year in Search, the 14th annual such list detailing the top searches of the year. Both nationwide and here in San Francisco, topics like Ebola, the World Cup,
SF News Robin Williams Tunnel Legislation Introduced, Could Be Done Deal Soon What started with Julie Wainwright's change.org petition to name the rainbow-accented tunnel north of the Golden Gate Bridge for the late Robin Williams is moving to its final stages of becoming a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Margaret Cho Busks On Haight Street and Castro [Updated] By Rebecca Bowe On Monday afternoon, comedian and San Francisco native Margaret Cho showed up at the corner of Haight and Ashbury with a guitar and started busking. She set up a guitar
SF News Coroner: Robin Williams Was Clean And Sober When He Died Over two months after actor and comedian Robin Williams died in his Tiburon home, the Marin County coroner has closed the investigation into his death. Chief among the findings: other than a small
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 Was It Ethical To Tell Koko The Gorilla That Robin Williams Died? As you might recall, after Robin Williams died in August of this year, the Woodside, California-based Gorilla Foundation announced that Koko, their famous gorilla, was in mourning, having met the actor several years
SF News Plan To Rename The Waldo Tunnel After Robin Williams Moves To State Assembly California State Assemblymember Marc Levine, who represents Marin, has taken up the cause of renaming the Waldo Tunnel in honor of the late Robin Williams. As Live 105 reports, with Williams' family's blessing,
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
SF News Robin Williams' Ashes Were Scattered In The Bay, Tabloids Report Two tabloids are reporting that Robin Williams was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the San Francisco Bay the day after he died. That's the same day Marin County authorities held a
SF News Move To Rename Waldo Tunnel After Robin Williams Gains Political And Petitioner Support Within a week of learning about Robin Williams death, more than six thousand people have signed a Change.org petition calling for a tunnel between Sausalito and Mill Valley to be re-named the
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Jokes About Tiburon, Bears In San Francisco In Un-Aired 2009 Interview CBS 5's entertainment reporter Liam Mayclem just penned a tribute of his own to the late Robin Williams, recalling his first encounter with the funny man when Williams stepped into his shot during
SF News Robin Williams Had 'Early Stages Of Parkinson's,' Wife Says Robin Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, has released a statement to the media saying the actor had silently suffered from early stages of Parkinson's Disease and was sober at the time of his death.
SF News Marin County Sheriff Defensive Amid Criticism That Robin Williams' Suicide Was Overly Described Many people, including some SFist readers, reacted strongly to the level of detail that was given in the press conference Tuesday with regard to Robin Williams' cause of death, saying that the Marin
SF News Robin Williams' 25-Year-Old Daughter Driven Off Twitter And Instagram Due To Abuse [Updated] If this widely-publicized story about what happened to Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, isn't enough to make Twitter change its weak harassment policy, we're not sure what will. After tweeting a link to
Arts & Entertainment Koko The Gorilla Mourns Robin Williams As you can imagine, we've gotten a number of press releases today that could be interpreted as attempts to capitalize on the tragic death of Robin Williams. However, one we received this afternoon
Arts & Entertainment Watch Robin Williams Rallying The Crowd At A Giants Post-Season Game In 2010 As many Giants fans know, Robin Williams was a fixture at many games, especially in the post-season of the past few years. On October 7, 2010, as the Giants were about to play
SF News 'Mrs. Doubtfire' House In Pac Heights Becomes Robin Williams Memorial Robin Williams' fans have left flowers, candles, photos, and notes remembering the late actor outside the Pac Heights house where much of his 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire was shot. By early evening last
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
SF News Locals Mourn Robin Williams, Including Ben Fong-Torres, Mayor Ed Lee, And 49ers [Updated] The news that actor Robin Williams was found dead today has shocked and saddened the world, but it hit especially close to home in the Bay Area, where he spent his teenage years
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
Arts & Entertainment Regarding That Time Mrs. Doubtfire Tried To Buy A Sex Toy On Wednesday during a question and answer session on Reddit, noted San Francisco comedian and bear icon Robin Williams revealed a Mrs. Doubtfire story involving the titular Scottish woman, a San Francisco sex
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Tickets Go On Sale at 1 PM Today; 2 Shows Only! Jumpy Academy Award-winning comedian Robin Williams will make two rare (?) appearance at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley next week, and tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. today. What he
SF News Robin Williams Drops Off 'Motherlode' of Designer Bear Fashions at Thrift Town Over at GayCities, Matt Slusarenko puts out a Lavender Alert about a "motherlode" of size-large and XL designer clothes that just appeared at the Mission Thrift Town, courtesy of a closet cleaning at
SF News Robin Williams Files for Divorce (Sing it, Tammy. Just...sing it.) Marsha Garces Williams and Oscar-winning actor and ADHD comedian Robin Williams have filed for divorce. Sigh. The local celebrity couple were tied together for over long 19
