--Graffiti artist Adam Brandt, who may possibly be "Spek," was arrested and "charged with 16 counts of tagging and 16 counts of malicious wanton destruction to property." [Boston Globe] --Two college students, one of them a junior at Bridgewater State College, have been missing since Valentine's Day. 22-year-old Daniel Querzoli, the Bridgewater State student, and his girlfriend, Amy Scott, a Johnson & Wales student, went out in Providence and haven't been seen since. [WBZ]......

The Globe did a "Whatever Happened To?" piece on local contestants who went on reality shows to lose weight. Unlike a bunch of visitations with ex-reality show stars, these stories have happy endings. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/24/gone_baby_gone/">Taryn Plumb visits Neil Tejwani, last seen on "The Biggest Loser." Tejwani lost 211 pounds and is looking good these days. He apparently has enough confidence to quit his day job as an engineer and go into comedy. The last time Bostonist......

Did you know that there's another Dave from Somerville on reality television this season? Well, somewhat. This Somerville Dave left Massachusetts for Los Angeles, made his fortune in sex toys at sextoy.com (find it yourself), started wearing a semi-faux-hawk, and installed a stripper pole in his home. Sextoy Dave made an appearance on Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker, in which a woman runs a business for millionaires to meet his ideal lover. (She swears it isn't an......

Bostonist can't make up our mind on how we should feel about "The Biggest Loser," NBC's reality show in which overweight people compete to lose more weight and win a bunch of money. On the one hand, there is something hopeful and, dare we say it, uplifting about a program that celebrates personal transformation wrought by hard work and competition rather than scalpels and stitches. On the other hand, reality television is, by its......