Department of Motor Vehicles

District Attorney Files Criminal Charges Against Supervisor Ed Jew

CA DMV Tells Homeland Security to Shove Their Orwellian Future

Living Embodiment of All Horrible San Francisco Stereotypes Claims Title of Most Despised Reality TV Character

Stephen Fowler, with wife Renee Stephens, will not be getting Christmas cards from the city's tourism boardThe purpose of reality television, it seems, is to encourage and revel in human beings' worst nature -- and do it at a fraction of the cost it would take to hire professional writers and actors ... More >>

Tow-talitarianism

A new car-impound program hands too much power to the police

Map to the Carts

A new car-impound program hands too much power to the police

Stacy's Mom vs. Yolanda at the DMV counter

A new car-impound program hands too much power to the police

Getting misty for the cranky old barkeep

A new car-impound program hands too much power to the police

Drinking with the cat's meow

A new car-impound program hands too much power to the police

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on March 16, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Things we were obsessing about on March 16, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 28, 2004

At Your Service

"Geisha" is a voyeur's delight

Easy Parking

The parks to hit when San Francisco weather turns nice.

Dawning Anew

Aquarius Records has changed owners, but its warm, informative approach to selling music remains intact

Diamonds Are a Mom's Best Friend

Is it ever cool to give back a gift, if the giver really really wants it?

Training Daze

In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

Night Crawler

In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

Reviews

In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

That Sinking Feeling

In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

Recordings

In the absurdist musical The Transit Rider, public transportation becomes a metaphor for life

The Lady in Question

Sara Felder's screwball comedy mixes conventions and convictions, with mixed results

S.F. Inquiry Regarding Disability Placards May Miss the (Disabled) Elephant In the Room: It's Just Too Damn Easy To Get a Disability Placard

Who wants some?Supervisor Eric Mar was on the side of the angels yesterday when he convened a hearing looking into the Municipal Transportation Authority's enforcement of potential disability placard fraud; if Mar can help bring the legal hammer down on able-bodied folks who fraudulently represent t ... More >>

Muni Union Head: Early Switch to Manual Power In Train Tunnel, Fingered for Weekend Crash, an 'Understood Practice' Among Drivers, Management

Jim HerdA pair of culprits have emerged as the potential causes for the weekend's nasty Muni crash at West Portal station: Sources within Muni have told the media that the veteran driver reported he blacked out -- which wouldn't have been a problem if the driver didn't shift his train from automatic ... More >>

DMV: Operator In Muni Train Wreck Ought to Have His Commercial and Personal Driver's Licenses Revoked

The DMV's next target...If you plowed your car into the back of a Muni train and told authorities afterward that you must have blacked out, odds are you wouldn't be motoring anywhere for quite some time. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the same goes for those who black out and pilot t ... More >>

Calling All Altruists: District 5 Cleanup on Saturday. As Always, If You Get Trashed, You Can't Pick Up Trash.

Clean up all the garbage areas in District 5 -- no, clean them all up!​If you've ever had a hankering to clean feces off the mayor's doorstep, then, boy, have we got a deal for you! In yet another test of one's altruism -- or stamina -- the Department of Public Works is tossing us a dilemma: Get t ... More >>

No, Motorists Cannot Put 'Smart Boot' On Other People's Cars

PayLockThe 'Smart Boot'​Apparently the "Smart Boot" people are one bootstep ahead of us. The devices are just like the boots you'd find, say, immobilizing Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's 1993 Jeep Wrangler. But instead of requiring an employee of the Municipal Transportation Authority to come out ... More >>

Note To the Egg Nog-Sloshed: Get Ready To Get Nailed By Holiday Sobriety Checkpoints

Not just Santa Claus is coming to town this holiday, folks. State, federal and city law via Flikr by McBLG97On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a DUI from the SFPD....​enforcement will be out in force for 17 days starting this weekend to nail your drunk ass if you get behind the ... More >>

Indian Taco Truck Now Hoping to Launch in San Francisco Early Next Month

Luis ChongCurry Up Now's S.F. debut has been pushed back slightly.​Peninsula-based Indian taco truck biz Curry Up Now had hoped to roll into San Francisco this week, but owner Akash Kapoor is now hoping to debut here during the first week of January. "We're about a week, 10 days delayed," Kapo ... More >>

Revolting Youth

A cult novel must continue its search for a worthy film adaptation.

Last Night: The Lickets, Moon Duo, The Spyrals

The Spyrals​The Lickets, Moon Duo, The SpyralsTuesday, Jan. 12, 2009Cafe du NordBetter than: a space odyssey.After last night's show, I'll be hard pressed to say nothing good ever comes out of being in line at the DMV. The Cafe du Nord lineup of the Lickets, Moon Duo, and the Spyrals came about, a ... More >>

Korean Taco Truck MoGo BBQ Readying San Francisco Debut

MoGo BBQMoGo's Korean short rib test taco.​Looks like Curry Up Now (currently strung up in DMV red tape) isn't the only mobile food truck poised to roll onto San Francisco streets in coming months. Korean-style food truck MoGo BBQ is hoping to start selling in the city just as soon as the owne ... More >>

Cars Burn at San Francisco Airport -- Arson a Possibility

www.lcpstc.org​Many a traveler has lost his or her luggage. But to lose your car -- that's different. It's also the reality facing half a dozen travelers at San Francisco International Airport, where a suspicious fire gutted six cars overnight in the long-term parking lot. A Toyota Siena ignited i ... More >>

San Bruno Fire: Bad Karma, Arrests For Four Accused Fake Victims

​A quartet of alleged miscreants have been arrested for purportedly attempting to claim San Bruno fire victim status, and cash in. Department of Motor Vehicles investigators claim Niesha Taylor, Deonte Bennett, Sonya Smith, and Lisa Justin applied for drivers licenses in the burn zone -- despite t ... More >>

Republican Election Ploy: Gays Marry Goats, Dogs, and ... Clocks?

Dating material perhaps. But you want to marry this? ​The Week In GayHave you noticed that the midterm election is around the goddamned corner? If your home is like mine you shovel 10 pounds of crap out of the mailbox and into the recycling bin every day; you have stopped answering the phone altog ... More >>

Transgender Woman Amber Yust Files Claim Agaisnt DMV Over Bible-Thumping Letter

Amber Yust says she caught hell from the DMV...​SF Weekly readers may recall a charming story about a transgender woman getting a drivers license with her new female name at the San Francisco DMV -- and also getting a most unwelcome letter, purportedly from a DMV employee, telling her she was goin ... More >>

San Francycle: Supercharge Your Body with Anatomy 101 for Bicyclists

​Ever get a weird pain in your back after riding your bike? Or feel really really hungry? Or feel your heart pounding as you mount McAllister towards Diviz? There's a lot of stuff going on underneath your skin -- a whole hodgepodge of muscles, tracts, and veins. You couldn't ride a bike witho ... More >>

Released Mental Patient Steals Taxi

You never know...​Comedian George Carlin used to assemble lists of "things you never want to see." One memorable entry: "A man in a hospital gown driving a steamroller." Something along those lines came to pass in the East Bay over the weekend. Jermaine Grosse, a 26-year-old man who hailed a taxi ... More >>

Jermaine Grosse, Mental Patient Charged With Taxi Theft: Did He Pick Up Fares?

Jermaine Grosse, impromptu cabbie​A few more details have come to light regarding Jermaine Grosse, the San Pablo man who followed up an involuntary psychiatric hold in a Martinez hospital by allegedly stealing the cab he was transported home in. Since Grosse allegedly made off with the cab on Satu ... More >>

Audit: State Should Have Fired Incompetent Prison Shrink, Paid Him $600,000 Instead

​California's prison system wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars -- while putting prisoners at risk -- by continuing to employ a psychiatrist for years after it first received misconduct allegations that eventually led to his firing, according to a California State Auditor's report issued today ... More >>

Joe Olivares Hernandez, Temple Nightclub Homicide Victim, Donates Organs to Californians

Courtesy of Hernandez FamilyOrgan Donor ​Joe Olivares Hernandez, the man beaten to death at Temple Nightclub, wanted to be a doctor to help save lives -- and he is managing to do just that a few weeks after he died. Hernandez, a 30-year-old medical student at UCSF, had told his family he wanted to ... More >>

Amber Yust, Transgender Woman Sues DMV Over Bible-Beating Letter

The DMV gave her hell, she gave it right back ​Readers might recall the story of Amber Yust, the 23-year-old transgender woman who received a harassing letter from a DMV clerk after she got her drivers license with her female name on it.Well, now Yust has officially field a lawsuit against the DMV ... More >>

Road Rage Turns into Just Plain Rage; Driver Beats Woman in Excelsior

Speeding beating = road rage ​A road rage incident quickly became just rage when a speeding driver beat a woman and her boyfriend walking through the Excelsior neighborhood earlier this week. At about 6:30 a.m., the couple was walking across the street at Persia Avenue and Madrid Street when a d ... More >>

Cute Roullete, Outlawing Battery Cages, and Vegan Waffle Parties

​ SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Introducing Cute Roulette! It's Chat Roulette but instead some guys wang-dang-doodle, you see an adorable kitten. I call bullshit! • CNN's coverage of those jerks bashing in calves heads with pickaxes is ... More >>

Saturday Night: The Black Lips Pucker Up for a Sloppy, Sweaty Kiss at Great American Music Hall

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Lips at Great American Music Hall on Saturday.​ The Black Lips Cerebral Ballzy Personal and the Pizzas June 11, 2011 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Getting peed on at one of those Black Lips shows of lore. The Saturday after the release of their new, M ... More >>

New King of Currywurst Cart: Now with Chilean Veg Dogs

Jonathan KauffmanKing of Currywurst's Chilean hot dog, $6.25.​King of Cürrywurst's Dirk Adolphs has been working on getting his food cart permitted for quite some time. SFoodie first wrote about Adolphs in November, when he started selling his sausages in curry ketchup -- a street snack as adored ... More >>

Amber Yust, Transgender Woman, Wins Settlement Over Bible-Thumping Letter

The DMV is hell​SF Weekly readers might recall that oh-so charming story of Amber Yust, the transgender woman who received an unwelcoming letter from a DMV employee who told her she was going straight to hell. Yust, who had gone into the DMV to change her sex on her driver's license, sued the DMV ... More >>

SF State's Hazardous Waste Cleanup Cost Millions More Than It Should Have

The DMV is hell​SF Weekly readers might recall that oh-so charming story of Amber Yust, the transgender woman who received an unwelcoming letter from a DMV employee who told her she was going straight to hell. Yust, who had gone into the DMV to change her sex on her driver's license, sued the DMV ... More >>

Alarmists Behind 'Homeless Haight Brigands' Myth Have a New Enemy: A Three Block Bike Lane

​Last year San Franciscans heard a repeated tale about a band of violent gutter punks who caused upstanding citizens to fear going out at night.The story was bogus. Police were unable make a single criminal case out of the supposed crime wave, despite blanketing the area for weeks.The fabulists be ... More >>

Pissed-Off Driver Rams Police Car After Being Towed by Cops

Anfer management classes would be so much cheaper​Parking in San Francisco will, at one time or another, bring out the absolute worst in us. Of course, some more than others, like this 63-year-old San Francisco man who was arrested recently after he plowed his van head-on into a police patrol car, ... More >>

Five Places Bacon Is But Shouldn't Be

There's such abundant love for bacon in this world that thousands of people have hit upon ways to share their love of the crispy pork fat with the rest of us. But some of these people go to far. Here's five bacon goods we find troubling: 5. Scratch and Sniff shirts Scratch and sniff items lose the ... More >>