SF News Bay Area Teen with Only Two Weeks To Live Will 'Go Down Swinging' "I'm gonna go down swinging," 17-year-old Alex Matlosz-Cox says. Two years ago, reports KRON4, the San Jose teen was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressively-malignant form of bone cancer. Since then, he's had 16
SF News Sean Sasser, AIDS Activist Who Appeared On 'Real World SF,' Dies Some sad news today. Sean Sasser, the man who appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco as Pedro Zamora's boyfriend, died this month. He was only 44. San Francisco-based comicbook artist Judd
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Pablo Sandoval's Hot Pink Manicure! Pablo Sandoval shows off some seriously hot-pink nails. Why? Why not. In addition to looking fierce, he also painted his tips in honor of Cancer Awareness Day before the game against Atlanta Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Mr. Marina Competition 2013: Spray-Tanned Fundraising Arriving at Ruby Skye last night with 30 minutes to spare in the free hour of sponsored SKYY drinks, your humble SFist editor promptly ordered two vodka sodas. You know — to blend in.
SF News Facebook Removes Breast Cancer Survivor's Tattoo Photo, Now Everyone Can See It Anyway Now that we are all digital immigrants living in a corporate town called Facebook, this is what neighborly favors look like in the year 2013: A tattoo shop in Ontario wanted to recognize
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Your Mr. Marina 2013 Contestants! Last year, the Mr. Marina Competition saw fourteen of the 94123's most unabashed bro-hams waggling their dongs while drinking away any hint of homoeroticism that arises from being a contestant in a male
SF News Bone Marrow Drive For 14-Year-Old Oakland Teen This Thursday Cynthia Rodriguez (AKA "C-Rod") is, according to the Oakland Tribune, athletic and enjoys playing softball, soccer and basketball. She's also only 14-years-old. And her life could be cut short if you don't help.
SF News Rocklin Resident Wants To Ban Outdoor Smoking, Even In Your Own Backyard NIMBYs inch closer toward literalism after Rocklin resident James Baker asked the City Council to ban outdoor smoking altogether, even for residents who wish to puff relaxing, cancer-causing cigarettes on their own property.
SF News Steve Jobs Regretted Trying Alternative Medicine Before he died, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to world to know that he deeply regretted "wasting time" on alternative medicine while trying to combat his pancreatic cancer. During a recent interview with
SF News Brown Bans Tanning Beds for Kids In a move poised to stave off children looking like white trash, Governor Jerry Brown banned kids from using tanning beds. The legislation, singed over the weekend, makes California the first state to
SF News Noted Filmmaker George Kuchar Dies An inspiration for artists like John Waters, among others, local filmmaker George Kuchar died on September 6 following a battle with cancer. The San Francisco Art Institute released the following statement today: "It
Arts & Entertainment Friday Night: "Will Draw for Drugs," Sketch Party and Benefit for Indie Mart's Kelly Malone This Friday night at 111 Minna, artist Kelly Tunstall is hosting a stunning line-up of local artists for a special sketch party and fundraiser, "Will Draw for Drugs" to benefit Indie Mart and
Arts & Entertainment Get Bagged by Giants at <strike>Seals Stadium</strike> Safeway Today Bay City News reports via SF Appeal that San Francisco Giants players Aaron Rowand, Jeremy Affeldt, team president Larry Baer, and Major League Baseball Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda will be bagging
Arts & Entertainment Walk Through Giant 'Super Colon' This Saturday During the sixth-annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration on Saturday (5/15), make sure you take a stroll through the 'super colon,' a 20-foot interactive inflatable colon showing you an example of healthy
SF News St. Mary's to Get New $22 Million Cancer Center St. Mary's hospital is breaking ground this week on a new cancer center which will, among other things, include new technology that allows chemotherapy to be targeted at specific organs, and a vascular
SF News UCSF Researcher Nabs Nobel Prize For Medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, won the Nobel Prize for medicine today. Just what , exactly, did Blackburn do to win this this fancy
SF News Marijuana, Nature's Chemotherapy? Noted no-nonsense humor haters Stuff Stones Like came across some revealing pot news. It seems a recent scientific survey suggests that kind bud protects against cancer. Pretty cool, huh? And with that in
SF News Breaking: Some Hot Dogs Cause Cancer A Washington D.C. group called Cancer Project has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court today in Newark, New Jersey. On behalf of three cancer-ridden residents, the lawsuit claims that hot dog manufacturers
SF News We're All Gonna Die KQED today brings us this report about a move in the California Assembly to ban Bisphenol-A, a.k.a. BPA, a widely used chemical in plastic packaging. It's been known to be potentially
SF News Farrah Fawcett, Dead at 62 RIP, Farrah. While she's best remembered for her seminal work in Charlie's Angels and bestowing the world with a signature hairstyle, we'll remember Fawcett best as Francine Hughes, an abused wife in the
SF News Pot Smoke Causes Cancer / Marijuana Poll Bad news, folks. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment ruled yesterday that marijuana smoke causes cancer. Stemming from a "review of more than 30 scientific papers" state agency spokesperson Sam Delson said
SF News Napa Police Dispatcher Faked Her Cancer, Got Donations From Friends A crazy story just surfaced from the Napa Valley Register about Dannille Vanderpool, a police dispatcher who claimed to have both ovarian and brain cancer and subsequently scammed her way into free childcare,
SF News Cough, Cough, Says Daly: New Cigarette Ban Introduced The entertaining/controversial Chris Daly, who seems a bit quiet as of late, has a new target now: wafts of cigarette smoke. We're told that his latest push of legislation "calls for a
SF News Senator Ted Kennedy Diagnosed With Brain Tumor This just in--interrupting The View no less. Bah!--Senator Ted Kennedy (one of the leaders of the democratic party and tipsiest of the Kennedy clan) has been diagnosed with malignant brain tumor just
SF News Happy Melanoma Monday! The American Academy of Dermatology is launching a new campaign to get girls from 16 to 29 years old (and boys in the same age range who live in district 5) to stop
