After three years, she's kicking him out of the guest room for good. We thought you should hear it from us first. That is all.......

The Usual Suspects passed us the following note in homeroom recently: Word is that a high-level staffer is departing the Mayor's office. But since none of the Real Media have confirmed anything, we won't name names, because we're too chicken to do so. But stay tuned - we'll post links as soon as some reporters and editors agree it's worth running with... But who, you ask? Well, according to San Francisco Sentinel (An aside:......

So check out the hotness from Crate & Barrel. It's about time we yuppies had an alternative to drilling holes into our walls for our precious flat panel plasma TVs on which to view Project Runway, Intervention, and Gossip Girl. We almost peed our pants as we were flipping through the latest Crate & Barrel catalogue (which they brazenly send to our work address - WTF?) and happened upon page 68, featuring an ultra sleek......

Well, this is some depressing news. Marin's very own Hollywood transplant power couple, Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn, are getting a d-i-v-o-r-c-e. At least according to People Magazine they are. The couple, chained together in varying levels of wedding bliss for over 11 years, have two children. The two appeared together in two flicks: the film adaptation of Hurlyburly and Nick Cassavetes' She's So Lovely. (We love the latter. A lot.) And if......

Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. Eric Hutchinson - Sounds Like This: A couple of weeks ago, our previous editor at Phillyist texted us from Hutchinson's concert saying, "Have you heard of Eric Hutchinson? You'll love him." We promptly checked out his Myspace page and instantly downloaded his impressive debut, "Sounds Like This." He became an overnight sensation when bitchy blog queen, Perez Hilton,......

Here's todays sports news...

After reading this, we were fit to be tied. BigHeadDC claims that recently-retired Trent Lott has a taste for male escorts. Sort of. We think. Coochie-choochie-coo. Who the hell knows. It's a post that's a bit too coy in revealing direct facts, reminding one of the Ted Casablana's maddening gossip column, The Awful Truth. According to BigHeadDC: The boy happens to be real, and his "stage name" is Benjamin Nicholas. One of the politicos......

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......

Oh man, it's moments like these that we miss working in an office. Almost. You see, Valleywag has the most savory blind item today -- "CEO pisses on own grave". But for the life of us, we cannot figure out who in the hell they're talking about. (A recently ousted CEO? No idea.) And we must know. This is the craziest thing we've heard in a while. And we at Valleywag hear some crazy......

It seems CODEPINK, a female-based grassroots pro-peace (and judging by the photographs, anti-conditioner) movement, recently got all up in Condoleezza Rice's face at Capitol Hill. This protester, sporting bloody hands, got a little too close to Condi, shouting "war criminal!" at her before she was pushed away and snapped up by the police. Four other CODEPINK protesters were arrested. ...

We were at work, surfing the Web when we noticed that Wonkette just posted some crazy story that Sean Penn is offering Matt Gonzalez $5 million dollars to run against the Gavster. Apparently, Sean would give Matt the money if Matty G. switched to the Democratic Party. What, Sean doesn't think a naked guy and a man named Grasshopper are good enough candidates? ...

Back in August, we told you about how some Safeway employees were mysteriously and suddenly transferred to different stores as management was becoming more demanding about checkers asking for donations. We hear from our Safeway mole, that things did not stop there. As you may as well already know, the Safeway crusade of the month is breast cancer research. (For those heavy-drinking ladies out there – score!) Safeway stores are festooned with pink balloons and......

We feel way dirty for posting this, but maybe someone cares. According to what is supposedly actually Paris Hilton's blog via some youth-oriented contraption called "MySpace," the omnipresent socialite is going to be at Macy's Union Square tomorrow at 3 p.m. to launch her clothing line....

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,......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

Yay! We're so excited!! In today's Chron Datebook Peter Hartlaub article, on the various types of lame apologies, SFist wins!!!!! Well, technically, Gavin Newsom "we're still dating!! we are we are we are!!!" girlfriend Jennifer Siebel won, with her long-winded and poorly-copy-edited "apology" comment that turned into an attack on former Newsom employee-paramour Ruby Rippey-Tourk. Hartlaub notes that what made it particularly excellent was that a second apology had to follow from the first......

Step right up! Step right up! The Gavin Newsom San Francisco carnival is coming to town! SEE .... the horrors that abound in the San Francisco Housing Authority! GAWK..... at the desperate lives of people trying to get by in the sub-standard apartment units provided by the city! GASP..... at the pitiful amounts of money residents try to live on! And then.... open your wallets! Won't you help.... for the children? We're not even really......

A Safeway insider has tipped us off to a serious and highly volatile issue that has transpired in recent days among Safeway employees, their union, and Safeway management. Word on the street is that Safeway is encouraging checkers to ask customers to donate to one of four charities. OK, that's nothing unusual. We're all used to this type of annoyance. However, Safeway employees have checked with their union and confirmed that they are not,......

Firings! Lies! Non-lies! It's so fucking exciting! A few hours after our post last week about Jeff's cameras in the THC's Seneca Hotel, we caught word of some firings. OMG did we get someone canned? Well, no. As it turns out, two folks were terminated at a different property (here's the job posting for their replacements), but it wasn't related to the cameras. Whatever the real reasons are for the firings, they cannot possibly......

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......

Kathy Griffin seems to prefer the techie geeks. (And just who wouldn't?) According to le Hilton, Kathy Griffin is dating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. (Yay! It's nice to see a redhead making good.) Is this true? Are they really spooning each other? We have no idea. But it'd be nice to see Griffin frolicking around the Castro again. Lord knows the strip needs something to keep it queer and interesting. (Assuming Wozniak lives in......

So, yesterday morning we had a rare two hours to kill – the S.O. was out playing tennis and nothing good was happening on the BB live feeds. Why not head over to Bernal and get that mani/pedi we’ve been meaning to get for the last two months? We got in the car and headed over to our favorite, most reliable salon, where the instruments are clean, the prices can’t be beat, and there’s......

Rumors have been circulating, but we just got word that, yes, Mayor Gavin Newsom ended his partnership with actress and SFist's favorite commenter, Jennifer Siebel, a little over two weeks ago. Sob. Why? We're not sure. Do we still believe in true love? Not at all. Do we secretly want Newsom to collaborate with Siebel's pal, Daphne Zuniga, thus the far-off chance of having a Melrose Place alum as SF's first lady? Oh God,......

KGO7's Dan Noyes has it that cocaine-and-booze-free Ruby Tourk has already written two chapters of a hopefully-soon-to-be-published self-help book, which will detail her “‘hitting rock bottom with Newsom after 20 years of alcoholism and coke use.’” As you remember, while married to Gavin Newsom’s former campaign manager and best buddy, Alex Tourk, Ruby was also Newsom’s party pit-stop for a spell. (And there’s the most darling Facebook picture of her tapping away at her......

And you thought Charmed was just a TV show! You could be forgiven for thinking you'd stepped into an alternate universe where sexy-witchies Piper, Phoebe, and Paige actually still lived in San Francisco with all the Alyssa Milano sightings around town this week. (We all still mourn the untimely death of sister Prue (Shannen Doherty), of course.) As we mentioned, Alyssa was all over this town for All-Star week: promoting her Touch 'Em All fashion......

OK. Hmm. We're not sure if politicians and public servants count as society folk, regardless of their top-drawer Getty connections. (We think once you're in office, we at SFist must then considered you the help, even if you can buy and sell us into sexual slavery.) Granted the image is old and last-year, but here's Gavin's tongue (which is fresh and tasty, we're sure), in case you’ve been kept up at nights wondering about its......

San Francisco socialites have been fellated for far too long by such hard-hitting glossies as 7x7 Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. Hell, even the pages from new society (excuse me, “philanthropy”) rag Benefit Magazine -- "the Lifestyle of Giving” is its tagline, God help us -- might lead you to believe that the upper crust would like nothing more than to head over to Bayview-Hunters Point and act as human shields from gunfire, saving the......

We don't actually know if anything on this poster, taped to a utility box at Fulton and Stanyan, is true, and we certainly don't want to entangle ourselves into the story by calling to verify. The epic tale is exhausting and an obvious drama-trap -- so let's sum it up: Someone feels that some girl named Jennifer took advantage of them. But it's not like they made it very hard for Jennifer to do: ...she......

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. Best of luck to you, C.Big, and we know you'll end up on your feet, tripping the light fantastic, and we hope you'll......

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 67. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 4 (including Molly Sims and her BFF Jennifer Siebel.) Minority count: 4 (5.8%). Getty v. Traina: 1-0 (counting Gavin's sister as a Getty) Number of countries visited by Denise Hale to celebrate her April birthday: 3 (India, Serbia, Italy). The age of children being compared to "a natural phenomenon where a river comes in and......