Department of Motor Vehicles

Q&A: Green Lane Project Explains How Bikes Are Actually Good for Business

No matter the grade of the street, getting a separated bike lane installed anywhere in San Francisco is always an uphill battle -- literally. On Polk, local businesses have stalled an MTA proposal that hinted at the possibility of a cycle track, decrying the plan's removal of parking as an attack ... More >>

Driver: "Is It Okay If I Kill That Cyclist?"

The nice thing about being one of the few people at my office who regularly shows up to work on a bike is that whenever one of my colleagues is puzzling over which bike route to take to the Mission or needs some advice about basic bike maintenance, or wants to tell someone about an especially fun we ... More >>

SF Cyclist to Drivers: What the F#ck Is Wrong With You?

Recently, I was biking along Oak Street when this question popped into my mind: "What the fuck do you want from me, dear cranky driver?" To be honest, the question didn't exactly "pop" into my mind, rhetorical and apropos of nothing, but was pushed to the fore of my thinking by one driver in partic ... More >>

Debunking the Pink Mustaches--Lyft, Taxi Alternative, Launches in San Francisco

We've all been there -- we need a ride home from a late night of pub crawling and we don't want to throw up on Muni. So we call that lucky friend with a car to hitch a ride home. Now, our friend never quarrels with us and lets us hog the phone charger in the car. And their vehicle has a pink mustac ... More >>

Sheila Sammon Milosky, S.F. Principal Accused of DUI, Pleads Not Guilty

(Update 12:30 p.m.) Milosky did not appear in court this morning, however her attorney reportedly entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. Her attorney told reporters that Milosky still has a valid driver's license and is awaiting a hearing with the DMV.Sheila Sammon Milosky, the embattled Paul Reve ... More >>

Incensed Driver Sets DMV Employee's Car on Fire

There's no mystery as to why the DMV brings out the worst in human beings -- those never-ending lines, the surly staff, and don't forget the Bible-thumping hate mail sent to your home.Apparently, the Department of Motor Vehicles pushed one Daly City man completely over the edge Monday morning when e ... More >>

How Bay Area Corporations Resemble Their (Human) Neighbors

Live Review, 3/15/12: Too $hort Is Stoned and Sloppy at the New Parish

Too $hort March 15, 2012 The New Parish Better than: A version of Girls Gone Wild set at the Oakland Coliseum DMV. It's often been said, probably inaccurately, that the Inuit people have 100 words for snow or something, right? To illustrate the subtleties language is capable of, when a subject de ... More >>

Bouncer Communes with the Pinatas at the Latin American Club

Skating Is a Drag

Blades, Flames, and Boobs

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Revolting Youth

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Map to the Carts

CA DMV Tells Homeland Security to Shove Their Orwellian Future

Stacy's Mom vs. Yolanda at the DMV counter

Getting misty for the cranky old barkeep

Drinking with the cat's meow

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on March 16, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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

Tow-talitarianism

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