The body of an unidentified man was found near Mills College early this morning, close to the intersection of Sunnymere and Van Mourik avenues. With a gunshot to the head, he was pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests, it seems, have been made. (CBS 5)......

Thank goodness the Department of Homeland Security's on top of all the threats to American freedom -- the New York Times today profiles Nalini Ghuman (at right), a British musicologist and assistant professor at Mills College who hasn't been able to get back to Oakland to teach her classes and work on her book about composer Edward Elgar, because Immigration and Customs refuses to let her back in the country. Ghuman is a British citizen......

At CounterPULSE (1310 Mission at 9th), Replaying Lost Landscapes: Film fragments of San Francisco. Local archivist, Rick Prelinger, culls from silent and early sound films, exuberant early-1960s city views, diverse home movies and industrial films, and includes rarely-seen views of San Francisco. (8pm) At Mills College in Oakland, the art reception for The Macarthur Boulevard Portrait Project. Three fine art photographers, Heike Liss, Johnna Arnold, and Bob Hsiang, were set loose with digital cameras......

Renowned tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy is speaking at Mills College (5000 MacArthur Blvd.) in Oakland tonight at 7 pm in the Concert Hall. Besides inspiring the skin art and cover art of countless punk and rockabilly bands, Hardy is a painter and printmaker and has a line of clothing favored by celebrities like Larry King. Green Apple Books presents friend of SFist, Harmon Leon's book release event for "The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits......

Crap to do on a Wednesday night for those of you who can call in sick to work tomorrow... The Mills College Music Department and The Center for Contemporary Music present Ring My Bell, 8:00pm to 10:00pm at Mills College in Oakland. Arrive at six to check out a preview of student's senior shows, and drop in on guest lecturer Michael Smith speaking at the campus Art Museum at 7:30. Before We Sell Out......

SFist is so thankful to be living in the greatest freakin' city in the world! One of the things that makes San Francisco great is our fantastic public libraries, from which we can quickly and easily reserve whichever books we'd like. We're also thankful for our great local independent bookstores, where we can buy, sell, and trade or books and other media. SFist Rita just got The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club (just out in paper)......