Oh my. This site sounded much more enthralling before we delved further. Still, it's interesting -- ripe with community-building spirit and harmonious stuff like that. Curbed SF brought to our attention the following site: Shoot Your Neighbors. It seems that the good folks over at SYN want you to "1) download and print the words to this Sesame Street classic; 2) take photographs of the people in your neighborhood, 3) Email said shots of......

Objectifying Gavin Newsom is dead. We've shifted our stalker gaze on Quintin Mecke, and so have many of SFist's more randy readers. Where does he stand on the issues? Who cares! (Well, actually, we do care. Excuse us for getting caught up in the moment.) People are begging for more shots of him. And so are we. ...

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice......

Sure, it's now (oddly enough) cool and obligatory for people in the Bay Area to label themselves as "self-described nerds" or "self-described geeks." (And anyone outside of the 18- to 25-year-old range is inherently uncool, right?) But there's a dark side to holding such an annoying title. As reported in the Chronicle today, Marlon Pagtakhan, 29, a Burlingame nerd and "rabid text messager," -- who was arrested several years ago for stalking Seven of......

-- Trannyshack's Siouxsie and the Banshees Night: Trannyshack icon and Scissor Sisters [NSFW] star Ana Matronic returns home to help Heklina host tonight's Siouxsie tribute. Also, we heard a rumor that Ana likes to watch live Broadway musical clips on YouTube. (i.e., str8-gay hipster suicide.) Is this true? We don't believe it. But if she does, she just landed herself a new stalker. Music starts at 10 p.m. and the show begins at midnight......

Hey, remember Gavin Newsom's stalker, Han Shin? He's back in the news, appearing in court today to answer the charges that he tried to run over the roommate of a friend of his, right around the same time as Newsom got that stay-away order from him too. (We had forgotten Han Shin sent a bunch of letters to Ed Jew too! What address did Shin use, do you think?) So here's the story. Shin shows......

-- Guns-for-gift card trade today at Civic Center. [Chron] -- How will Giants' owner Peter Magowan celebrate the moment Bonds makes the hit? [Examiner] -- Rebecca Schaeffer's stalker cum murderer stabbed 11 times in prison. Ouch. [Chron, Examiner, via AP] -- SJ hit-and-run suspect still at large. [KPIX] -- Lawrence Livermore Labs plan for more uranium blasts. Yikes! [IndyBay] -- Free Wi-Fi in SF? [The Register]......

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With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as......

Here's todays recap of the daily news...

"He is like a cross between Liberace and Hello Kitty. He is out of his gourd." - Bevan Dufty describing Han Shin (aka Purple Gloves) to the Bay Area Reporter....

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... ...

So what's the latest with Purple Gloves? Well, Gavin Newsom's stalker Han Shin is now behind bars, after being arrested last night by the Union City cops. Not for the Gavin shenanigans, mind you -- but because yesterday morning, Shin had driven over to a possible ex's house in San Ramon, and when his ex wasn't there, stormed into the house, stolen several items, and then tried three times to run over one of the......

Police say that amongst the possessions of Gavin's stalker, Han Sup Shin's they found these song lyrics, scribbled down on a cocktail napkin. ...

Okay, we're a local news junkie Asian-American, and we're just going to say it -- we're a little embarrassed for our people from yesterday. Or, rather, we're going to strongly support investing more resources into Asian-American mental health advocacy and support groups. Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had......

From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from the building to the Bay Bridge. Also found were a cutout composite photograph of the mayor, Shin and Shin's father, magazines with articles about Newsom, a laminated photograph of Newsom, three purple latex gloves and a cassette tape titled "President Newsom." Now,......

Special single-issue Blotter! And please note: other SFist writers may very well take a crack at this same topic. Looking for news on Gavin's stalker? We've now rearranged this morning's blotter into our usual Breaking News format, latest updates on top. Read our original post after the jump too, we're quite proud of all the links we put in! Latest: Guess who else Han Shin was obsessed with? District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew! He's gotten......

A man in Novato is irritated by the excessive Christmas decorations of his neighbor. The house features 90,000 lights, wise men, baby Jesuses, Santa Clauses flying over the manger, and a pointy-eared Elvis impersonater named "Elfis" who sings "Blue Christmas," and the large number of people driving by and parking on the street (as well as the extremely loud generator used to power the lights) are driving him mad. This festivity, known as The Christmas......

We're not going to miss a rare opportunity to see Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky (director of the original Solaris), screening tonight at the SF Art Institute (800 Chestnut St.) for free. This influential Russian film has many elements associated with Russian literature - epic length, existential ennui, depressing locales. A brief plot synopsis: Two disenchanted intellectuals wish to explore the Zone, a mysterious region at the center of which a room, said to offer......

The big news yesterday, which hit our feed reader right before our wifi crapped out, was Google CEO Eric Schmidt driving down the 101 to Cupertino to join Apple's Board of Directors. Considering some of the trouble Apple's been in lately -- suppliers suing newspapers over reports of overworked employees in China, a less-than-stellar environmental record, stock option backdating scandals -- could this be a way for Google to outsource all the evil they're supposedly......

Jon was going to write up a blurb about the Giants taking 2 out of 3 from the D-Backs, but he was way-laid by a prawn quesidilla at Taco Bell. And yes, you might be thinking to yourself that Taco Bell doesn't serve prawn quesidillas but Jon forgot. He still isn't sure what he ate. Since the Giants' keys to victory were so easy to figure out, in his place and writing up today's Giants blurb will be the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush. See, what the Giants need to do is to win. You have to win to make it to the playoffs. And the Giants? They won. They beat the Arizona Diamondboys 8-2. They have now won two in a row. That's better than losing two in a row. ...

We're totally afraid that we're gonna jinx ourselves by spilling the beans like this, but we can't hold back any longer: this week, we're actually going to get to ask Muni's Executive Director Nathaniel P. Ford all the questions we've been (rhetorically) asking since his appointment in January of this year. That's right: Mr Ford has graciously agreed to be interviewed by SFist -- but something tells us we won't get to the question......

Left in SF is the first on the scene with the liveblog from today's citywide wifi hearings — look for a full recap here at SFist tomorrow. Anil Dash takes a long look at a recent WSJ article about Project Guttenberg, praising the tone of the piece and making some comparisons to the Google Books project. Leland "Video Game Violence" Yee gives mad props to DiFi and OG Lantos for expanding the GGNRA in......

If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this week: Those of you working in and around the downtown building for the next two weeks will see some activity on the part of a movie crew as they prep for shooting of their film on Sunday, September 18, and Sunday,......

SFist is sending out an APB to the world: are you a ravishing young woman? Do you drive a Jeep? Were you driving it around in the Sunset last month? If so, a young man named Luke really, really really wants to speak to you. Consider the dozens of missed connections that have been posted in the past few weeks by the local 30-year-old to be a series of love letters. True, he only......