United Nations

Three Guys Beat Man Unconscious, Drag Him to the Street

A man is in critical condition this morning after he was brutally beaten and robbed in the Tenderloin last night. According to police, the man was at the United Nations Plaza at about 7:42 p.m. when three men attacked. Witnesses told police that the first man punched the victim in the head, knocki ... More >>

Here's Your Chance to Surf a 14-Foot Wave Through the Civic Center

Have you always wanted to ride the big-ass waves at the Mavericks, but were too afraid of killing yourself out there? Now is your chance to suck it up and surf like the rest of those cool dudes. On March 22, head down to the city's UN Plaza where there will be a mega wave for all you wannabe surfe ... More >>

Heart of the City Farmers' Market Finds

What: Heart of the City Farmers' Market When: Weds., 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Fri., 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m., & Sun., 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Where: UN Plaza (above the Civic Center Bart station) Heart of the City Farmers' Market started 30 years ago with just 15 farmers present, and has since grown into a large indepen ... More >>

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Texans Can Relax, Civil War Part Deux Averted

If you thought that Texas judge was off his rocker when he warned of an pending civil war should President Obama be reelected, well you aren't alone. Apparently, the United Nations thinks the judge is kinda nuts, too. As readers might recall, last week Lubbock County Judge Tom Head went public with ... More >>

Texas Judge Hopes Obama Will Win So He'll Have an Excuse to Start Another Civil War

You think Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed tax-increase plan is stupid? Well, at least he's not going to use that money to pay for another Civil War. Down in Texas, a Lubbock County judge is asking voters for a 1.7 percent tax increase to pay for more cops who would fend off the feds in the pending civil ... More >>

"The Dictator": More Culture Clash Than Comedy Revolution

UN Plaza Farmers' Market Invites You to Birthday Party

Heart of the City Farmers' Market​Heart of the City Farmers' Market 30th Anniversary Party Where: United Nations Plaza, Market at Seventh St. When: Weds., Sept. 14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: Free The Rundown: Established in 1981 as an oasis of food in what was (and still is) an S.F. food desert, ... More >>

Kim Alter Exits Plate Shop, Oakland Gets a TacoBike, and Place Pigalle Returns

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. That was quick. Inside Scoop reports Kim Alter is already out as executive chef of Sausalito's Plate Shop. Opened in February, Atler took an executive role for the first time, after working in the kitchen ... More >>

Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

Off the Grid Expands in Civic Center, U.N. Plaza

Flagstaff Bill/Off the GridStarting May 9, Off the Grid Civic Center makes two weekly appearances.​Like oil companies and pot clubs, the food-truck biz is thriving. With a steady influx of new vendors and the growing appetite for food handed out through Plexi flaps, it was inevitable that Off ... More >>

It's Spring, and Farmers' Markets Are Busting Out All Over S.F.

View San Francisco Farmers Markets 2011 in a larger map We're blessed to live in a part of the world where we have access to fresh, ripe, unadulterated fruit, plucked at local farms and brought to our very fingertips at a bevy of farmers' markets across the city. In fact, the handful of farmers' ma ... More >>

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Southern Sandwich Food Truck Debuts in S.F. This Week

brett n./YelpSouthern Sandwich Co.'s Nathan and Brett Niebergall.​It's been a long road back to San Francisco for Southern Sandwich Co.'s Brett and Nathan Niebergall, who ran a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Castro till the economy tanked. In June, the brothers rolled out Southern Sandwic ... More >>

Twirl & Dip Picks the Perfect Time to Debut at Two Off the Grids

Luis ChongTwirl & Dip's first appearance at UN Plaza was today.​Today's scorching heat forced us to search for something refreshing at the UN Plaza Off the Grid to help us cool down. The answer came in the form of a truck serving soft-serve ice cream, root beer floats, and fruit-sicles. SFoodi ... More >>

Off the Grid UN Plaza Debuts Quietly

Luis ChongThe Thursday street-food market represents the fifth Off the Grid pod.​The fifth location of Matt Cohen's Off the Grid street-food gathering made a quiet debut yesterday at United Nations Plaza. Four food trucks (El Tonayense, IZ-IT, Le Truc, and Senor Sisig) made the trip to the ope ... More >>

Who Shows Up to Demonstrate on Day *Two* of Prop. 8 Trial? In the Rain?

Joe EskenaziFive minutes before the gavel on Tuesday, and no one's showed up to say anything about it...​There were folks huddled outside the city's federal courthouse today whose views and behavior decidedly do not fall within the bounds of "San Francisco values." With the gavel about to fall, i ... More >>

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Do Anti-Climate Change Protesters Want to Fill The Bay With Garbage?

Over the weekend, hundreds of San Franciscans flocked to Justin Herman Plaza to join protesters in 181 countries urging United Nations negotiators to push for greenhouse gas reductions. Around 100 cyclists donned snorkels and other water-themed costumes to show that a warming, rising sea would inun ... More >>

Spoofing the run-up to war, In the Loop is political satire done right

Market Watch: Real Estate Division Feeling Heat over Alemany

With great produce comes great responsibilityWe reported this week that the city's Real Estate Division, roughly 10 months after engineering a hostile takeover of the United Nations Plaza antiques market, had fallen a cool half-million short of its revenue projections from the new business. This was ... More >>

Amidst a budget crisis, the city is losing its shirt in the antiques business

The Day the Plot Stood Still

Sci-fi remake misses the point, and that's a Klaatu Barada no-no.

Tonight: Deep Fried Not Bombs

San Francisco Street Food Top Ten

Be Like Mike

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World Vegetarian Day: What Would Morrissey Do?

World Vegetarian Day: What Would Morrissey Do?

Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Chaat Amongst Yourselves

"Fast, fresh, casual" -- and innovative -- Indian food

Environmental Cycle

San Francisco is the world capital of the art of hypocritical, Earth-friendly rhetoric. Official support for bicycle commuters could lessen the cognitive dissonance.

Blade Runners

Hotel Rwanda finds hope amid the horrors of tribal genocide

Re-Gifting

Trash to Treasure

Beating the Bush

Another documentary exposes the president as a right-wing imperialist

People Like Us + Kenny G

Nothing Special

The Kid Connection

Family Fest's 411

Sir Vidia's Shadow

Superb acting and careful directing draw out a play about sex and socialism

Guesses Over Guinness

The regulars love to subvert the contest. It's yet another twist to the city's toughest pub trivia night.

Best Unusual Textiles

Satin Moon Fabrics

Rural Cleansing

Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

South to the Future

The Party After the Party: What to Do With the "Y2K Dividend"

South of the (Mexican) Border

Local Rites for Universal Rights

Night + Day

The New Nuclear Age

Livermore protest is mere theater, but lab's research raises real questions

Dial Saddam for Murder

Sargon Dadesho survived an Iraqi assassination plot. Now he's out for blood money.

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