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......

--Picture of a woman collecting bottles from people in the iPhone line by reader zombie. Thanks for sending them in, zombie! [ZombieTime.] --Four murders in San Francisco this weekend, 10 murders throughout the Bay Area. One guy was stabbed in the back at Columbus and Union (by Washington Square Park). [Chron.] --Spotted: Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel on a dinner date at the Slanted Door last night. [from a reader!] --The Chron Sunday Styles......

Phillyist Jill (who compiles half of those Week Around The Ists posts for all of us in the Gothamist network) sends along some info about a nationwide memoir contest that they're sponsoring out of Philadelphia -- so those of you frustrated (or successful!) This American Life aspirants, start mining your childhood for poignantly-insightful anecdotes! This is all part of the autobiographical-supporting First Person Arts' Sixth Annual Memoir-Writing Contest, and this year's theme this year is......

The Sunday Styles section of the Chronicle does it again! Not content to rest on its laurels after watching poor Jennifer Bumblebee Siebel decimate herself, Styles next turns its gimlet eye on two other prominent members of the Swells set: Denise Hale and the inimitable bicycle-intimidator Dede Wilsey. Sunday Styles RULES. Turns out Pat Montandon, mother of Sean Wilsey and ex-wife of Dede's late husband Al Wilsey, has decided to pen a book of her......

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...