We're legitimately sorry to have to report this -- really, not because it's been such easy fun (and we'll probably have to retire the so-best picture now too), but because it's really very sad -- Gavin and Kimberly just announced that they're getting a divorce, after three years of marriage, citing the strain in doing the long-distance thing with Kim in NY and Hizzoner here. We're not taking sides (what if they get back together? We want to stay friends with them both!), but we will say that Gavin always seemed extremely supportive of Kimberly, both in her career and in her more Teresa Heinz Kerry moments, and we hope that counts for something. Best of luck to them both. more ›

We're only getting to this story now because it takes four days for magazines to travel across our great lands to us yokels out here in the Western hinterlands -- the New Yorker deigns to focus its little monocle on the far end of Democrat-Blue America and presents a rather one-sided hagiography of our boy wonder mayor, Gavin Newsom. more ›

SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in the world. Much like those US News and World Report stickers that show up on local editions of the America's Top Colleges magazines ("NORTHERN CALIFORNIA! Berkeley, Stanford, and Mills are represented in here!"), someone has thoughtfully compiled a compendium of California-based information for your perusal. more ›