United Nations

"The Dictator": More Culture Clash Than Comedy Revolution

Vegan Eggs, Ethical Meat, and a Cupcake ATM!

​Hey guys! March 20th was Meatout. I refrained from eating meat. Best holiday ever.  ​The UN's World Water Day was this week too! Second coolest holiday of the week. Since this year's theme was food security, people actually talked about how meat is a nightmare for water conservation! It's ... More >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Get Off Your (Bare) Butt

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 >>

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 >>

Golden Gate Park Golf Course Vandalized Again

A crime against golf​Yesterday we noted that the city's Golden Gate Park Golf Course had been vandalized to the tune of $75,000 by off-roading miscreants who reduced holes six, seven, and eight to a morass of mud and tire tracks. While city crews spotted the vandalism on Friday and worked over the ... 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 >>

Early Thanks

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

Web Extra — Bonus Best Of

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 >>

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

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

San Francisco Street Food Top Ten

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

Be Like Mike

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

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/26

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

World Vegetarian Day: What Would Morrissey Do?

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

World Vegetarian Day: What Would Morrissey Do?

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

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

Best Eritrean Food

New Eritrea Restaurant

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

Regime Changing

This all-American kid from Monterey is now one of the foremost experts on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Where does he go from here?

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 ...

A Touching Story

Homeless people need many things: food, clothing, shelter. But maybe what they really need is a good back rub.

South to the Future

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

South of the (Mexican) Border

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

Local Rites for Universal Rights

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

Night + Day

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

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.

Night+Day

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

The Prime Minister of Comedy

Barry Weintraub's a joker, he's a voter, he's a Web-page stoker

Slap Shots

Barry Weintraub's a joker, he's a voter, he's a Web-page stoker