We love this picture of *NSYNC's out memoirist Lance Bass at a Halloween party at the Clift Hotel - love love love love love!!! (Are we the only people mildly interested in reading his new book, "Out of Sync," to see if he names anyone else in the pop world who might be gay?). Thanks to Drew Altizer for sending it along! Drew, SFist's favorite photographer, also sent along an assortment of pictures from......

We always love it when Drew Altizer sends over his latest A-list pictures for us to peruse! Here's a memento of Drew's trip up to the North Bay last week, to San Anselmo to see Robin Wright Penn at the launch of the EcoMom Alliance, about encouraging mothers to take social action. (More pictures from the event here.) Thanks for sending the picture along, Drew! We don't suppose you found out one way or......

We're a little late to the party on this one (sorry, sorry, sorry, we've been totally swamped at our day job lately, which is why we've been kind of MIA -- curse you, Ed Jew, for getting yourself indicted during our busiest week!) -- but can you believe Marilyn Manson actually managed to marry Dita Von Teese and then left her for some child? Drew Altizer snapped these Dita von Strip-Teese photos at the......

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Jerry Seinfeld was in town the other day, presumably to promote his upcoming film Bee Movie (why on a cable car, though? Is there an SF theme? You know we'll watch anything with an SF theme!) -- and our favorite photographer Drew Altizer was there on the scene. Thanks for passing the pictures along, Drew! We're hoping these end up in US Weekly's "Celebrities, they're......

Bless you, Drew Altizer, for your always-fun pictures of the local celebs in town! We wish we were Vegasist, so you'd have some pictures of Britney Spears's flabtastic performance at the VMAs last night. (aaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!) Anyhow, so Paris Hilton was in San Francisco earlier this week, at a Macy's event, and friend of Jennifer Siebel Molly Sims was at Cartier (after the jump). Drew's got the pics! Enjoy. All pictures by Drew Altizer.......

Hey, for those of you who like the grapefruit-scented lotion and the copious free samples they hand out, the beloved bath and body store Kiehl's just opened a new store in the Westfield Mall. And Drew Altizer, our favoritest photographer of the stars, was there to see throaty British songbird Joss Stone (the other one, the one who doesn't attack her spouse) opening up the joint. Thanks, as always, for passing the pictures along,......

We were thinking wistfully just the other day about Drew Altizer's excellent society photos, now that we no longer read the Sunday Styles section to show our support for the dearly-departed Catherine Bigelow -- so how excited were we when Drew sent us this latest round of A-list pictures he's taken! Joan Rivers and Bill Pullman are in town with their stage productions at the Magic Theater: The Joan Rivers Theater Project (a work......

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. She starts today as the top-drawer publication's shiny new Deputy Editor & Society Columnist, working alongside longtime Editor Merla Zellerbach. An......

...are priests. But he probably has to pay them, too. Sad....

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 65. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 9 (including George Shultz, Dianne Feinstein's husband, and Spike Lee). Minority count: 6 (9.2%). Getty v. Traina: 2-2. Gavin holds down the fort for both points scored by Team Getty. Years between visits with Queen Elizabeth for Charlotte Maillard Shultz: 24. "She absolutely radiates like a queen," Ms. Maillard Shultz raves to Swells. Percentage of......

The always-reliable and smartly-snapping Drew Altizer stopped by the SF Film Society's red carpet awards ceremony on Saturday and passes along these views of the scene! Award recipients this year included: Robin Williams and Spike Lee (both of whom were eye-catchingly dressed and whose pictures are after the jump), and George Lucas, who's pictured above with Ron Howard and John Lasseter from Pixar. Thanks, Drew! Extra bonus: if you go through Drew's pictures on......

Drew Altizer is on fire! He passed along these adorable pictures of adorable Parker Posey, who was in town yesterday for the screenings of her two (count 'em, two) indie movie extravaganzas last night for the SFIFF -- Broken English (by Zoe Cassavetes -- yes, of that Cassavetes family) and Fay Grim (by Hal Hartley -- yes, that Hal Hartley). Isn't Parker Posey just cute as a button? Thanks for passing these along, Drew!......

Drew Altizer passes along these awesome pictures of Eric McCormack (Will from Will and Grace) singing his heart out at the American Conservatory Theater Ruby Jubilee last week, celebrating the ACT's 40th year. Alas, Drew reports that scheduled guest Annette Bening didn't make it, but a source who was there tells us that Nancy Pelosi did. Pelosi missed the performances, but was surrounded by an entourage and mingled through the night with a big smile......

Drew Altizer does it again! Here's his pictures from Friday's annual SF zoo fundraiser, ZooFest, featuring special guest Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's The Birds and mother to Melanie Griffith. Also, some pictures of Chris O'Donnell, who also supports the SF Zoo. (Alas, no pictures of noted SF Zoo eagle parent Stephen Colbert.) The theme for ZooFest this year was "It's a Jungle Out There," as the zoo opened up the Sloat Street entrance......

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 74. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 7 (after some deliberation, we decided not to include Steve Kawa because we didn't recognize him with his new haircut at all.) Minority count: 7 (9.5%). Number of pictures included in the minority count that are of Willie Brown: 4. Hats, capes, tiaras: 9, 0, 0. (SF Giants opening day skewed your hat stats a......

Photographer Drew Altizer goes to all the good parties! Drew reports in from Saturday's birthday party for DJ AM (Adam Goldstein, former fiance of Nicole Richie and just-dumped boyfriend of Mandy Moore) at Mezzanine, featuring not only the birthday boy himself on the turntables, but also Travis Barker (from +44 and the defunct Blink-182, as well as a former Paris Hilton fling and the back-on again husband of Shana Moakler, of reality TV fame).......

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.) Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 14 (including Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins, Joan Chen, and a Chron reporter we see from time to time when we go out for drinks with Eve). Minority count: 24 (24%). Hats, capes, tiaras: 2, 0 (but 5......

As promised, Naomi Campbell came back to town for her very first San Francisco runway walk for our city's night of Fashion Week Live last Thursday -- and as noted by SFist Elaine, she brought Australian model Gemma Ward with her. And Tyson Beckford too! Drew Altizer, as always, was there on the scene, and sends along these pictures from the scene. We're running out of laudatory adjectives to describe Drew (we've already used......

We weep tears of gratitude every time Drew Altizer sends along his pictures -- they're always so good, and he's always having such a fun time in the city! Last Saturday, Drew was at the Vivienne Westwood fashion show, celebrating the opening of her fashion retrospective at the DeYoung Museum and passes along these images. You may remember Ms. Westwood from her days outfitting the Sex Pistols, and even today, she's still a fashion......

With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of Diablo, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Magazine, and 7x7....

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 72. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 7 (including Bette Midler and Martin Yan from Yan Can Cook) Minority count: 22 (30.6%). The two Chinese dragons pictured are not included in the count. Getty v. Traina: 1-0. Gavin is mentioned as attending a UCSF fundraiser, but not pictured. Hats, capes, tiaras: 2, 0, 1. We're counting the round thing on one of......

SFist's beloved A-list photographer Drew Altizer sends along the pictures he took from today's "Wild Hogs"/ Chinese New Year event. We haven't heard a word about this movie before, but it apparently involves Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy as four guys on a midlife crisis motorcycle tour of New Mexico? (Did we read this press release right? Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy?) Huh. Anyways,......

Drew Altizer generously passed along some pictures he took of Naomi Campbell, who was in town yesterday (maybe also today, we can't find any information about her itinerary online). Man, Gavin is kicking himself that he agreed to go to Davos this week! Apparently there's no good celebrities over there this year. Naomi's here to announce a FashionLive event scheduled for some time in March, at which point she'll come back and walk a San......

A-lister Drew Altizer sends along some pictures he got at yesterday's Westfield Mall MAC Chinese Dress Exhibition at Nordstrom's, featuring models wearing nothing but body paint (and discreet shields over their private areas), drawn to look like designer chi-pao dresses. Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)......

strong>Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 76 people plus two dummies and one dog....

Fist Rita is on a well-deserved holiday break so we apologize ahead of time for this week's suckage. Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 48...

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......

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 56. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 11. Minority count: 4 (7%). Hats, capes, tiaras:13, 0, 1. Hat count includes three wimples; tiara count does not include the festive plumage shooting out behind Elvis's head. Getty v. Traina: 2-0. The day next month's W magazine appears on newsstands, with an article exposing the SF social scene: 12/22. We're so excited! This week's......

Our favorite society photographer Drew Altizer thoughtfully sent along these pictures from the Glide Memorial Church Holiday Event yesterday, featuring Will Smith and the Bay Area premiere of the new movie The Pursuit of Happyness. The Pursuit of Happyness is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a successful stockbroker --......

We missed you last week, Swells! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 59. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 8 (including Tracy Chapman, Dianne Feinstein, and... hey! Welcome back, Charlotte Maillard Shultz!) Minority count: 3 (5%). Getty v. Traina: 3-1. Al Wilsey is counted as a Traina. Hats, capes, tiaras: 0, 0, 0. Stanlee Gatti count: 2. The number of square feet that Dianne Feinstein says former Petaluma......