A website where official restaurant food safety rankings are easily accessible...

As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's sweet release -- might become a reality. Or at least, discussed in length at this Thursday's all-day symposium hosted by the city Department of Public Health....

Actually, this is some good news: Wired News just reported about the San Francisco Department of Public Health's finding that speed use among SF gays and SF-native Stephanie Tanner has decreased over the past three years. (Is there some alternative, slimming drug out there that no one's told us about? We kid.) Although the department claims that this new baggie-free lifestyle is due "to successful public health campaigns," drug use outside of crystal meth......

Gavin Newsom was all raspy voice and bulletproof hair at last night at Cesar Chavez Elementary in the Mission. Despite somebody's command to "Go back to Nob Hill!" Gavin asserted "I'm not going away." He's used that phrase a couple times now. Is that your campaign slogan, homie? We hope not, because you're not exactly the underdog. It's almost April and you still don't have an opponent. ...

Haight Ashbury Free Clinics' ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Integrated Care Center...

Nothing gets our treasure hunting heart pounding as fast as a crowded taco truck tucked away on a parking lot. Unfortunately the delicious meal we wolf down sometimes makes our stomach heave just as fast. Fear not, we've located the healthiest taco truck south of the Department of Public Health. ...

BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about everyone's favorite cut of man-meat. Seeking men of all sizes, shapes and colors to model their penis for an upcoming art photography book project. This creative project seeks to show what men really look like down there--how we're so very different,......

The SF Dept. of Public Health has launched, in conjunction with an organization called Internet Sexuality Information Services, a new website called InSPOT("Internet Services for Partners or Tricks"). InSPOT's offering an e-card service that you can use to send anonymous emails to your on-line hookups to let them know you've been infected with a sexually transmitted disease. (okay, all together -- aaaaaaagh!!!!)...