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Oh good. Valentine's Day is just around the corner. And if the thought of next Thursday's approaching fillet mignon-for-two-free evening doesn't make you want to slice open an artery followed by nap-time in the bathtub, then how about not making Nob Hill Gazette's annual Lucky 13th Annual Eligible's List? (Yes, yes, you and your hipster S.O. are too cool to celebrate a Hallmark holiday, clearly, but what a privileged thing to decide not to do. Wow, that was bitter. Anyway.)

Made famous to us plebeians not by the names littering the social registry and its many sad suck-ups (an aside: ahem, our rent is due soon, bitches), but by the much-missed former SF Weekly's "Dog Bites" columnist Laurel Wellman, Nob Hill Gazette just landed another beloved local writer, former Chronicle society scribe Catherine Bigelow.

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Hey -- we're not doing our usual light-hearted romp through the Swells society column this weekend, because we've got sad news. The doyenne of Swells, Catherine Bigelow, announced in this week's column that she's been asked to take the Chron's "voluntary buyout package," so this is it for your mathematically-inclined socialite review.

Number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 67.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 100. (It's all pictures and captions this week, with no dishy Catherine Bigelow text, we're sorry to report.)

over on the Chronicle's Culture Blog. RIP, us!

SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf form so many, but not all, of the links featured here will require Adobe Acrobat.)

Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala!

Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk about. Well, it's not always true! Drew Altizer sends along some pictures he took at the GlobalGreen USA fundraiser benefit ("Gorgeous and Green: An Ecofabulous Party"), whose board has enough celebrities that they were willing to fly a couple of them up for the night to dazzle us in this here little small town.

Total number of people pictured in the Chron's Symphony Opening Night article: 23.

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells: 51 (plus two pictures of groups).

With the advent of this Internet thingamabob, newspapers are finding themselves in quite a world of Darwinian hurt. In short, adapt or die. Lately, the Chron has been adapting by having some of their most favored writers do blogs on the SFGate side. Not a bad idea really as we're sure the idea of paying $30 a year to read Jon Carroll's cat columns is not going to bring in the cash money. How they've been getting the writers to do it is a good question as we have a feeling not many of them were that psyched on the idea. We're thinking either by gun point or with long-lost incriminating photos.

Well, all right, we didn't get in the New York Times by name. But their slurpy Sunday Styles article about our glamorous gad-about-town mayor and his Scientologist/actress girlfriend did mention that "[b]logs in . . . San Francisco have fueled online chatter about the couple." (emphasis added). We're going to assume that's us! We'll take it! Rest of the article's all blah blah blah, is he in the pocket of Scientology, what about the North Beach building issue, Sofia Milos describing Gavin as "perfect" (what says perfect like a sagging murder solve rate?) , and one gem: an item noting that at a party last weekend, Gavin "took over the bongos for 45 minutes." Nothing says "so totally not annoying after 2-3 minutes" like bongo drums! Check out Catherine Bigelow's pictures of the party in Swells -- or just enjoy the mayor's previous bongo excursion, above. Gavin on the drums by 1115

the ballet and the 20th under Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson. According to Sylvia Rubin, the Chron’s fashion editor, the announcement of the Masked Ball "has sent everyone around town scurrying for something to cover their faces.” And we certainly agree as everyone we know has spent the past couple of weeks scrambling to find eye and stick masks. For those still unsure as which kind of mask to get, Jordanna Phigpen, the owner San Francisco’s Mask Italia, says "personally, I don't care for the masks on sticks, they're awkward to carry around all night…but they are more flirtatious, and frankly, they don't mess up your hair.'' A-men! Rubin also points out that the in dress this season will be the bare-shouldered look.