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. more ›

--No parking for your bulldozer? Just leave it on the beach. (Thanks to reader Joe, who sent this absolutely gorgeous postcard picture to us. GREETINGS FROM THE BULLDOZER!) more ›

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 74. more ›

We've learned so much about mayoral communications director Peter Ragone from this article in the Sunday Chron! Since it's a Sunday (and there's no Swells today), we're naturally giving it the SFist By The Numbers treatment. more ›

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.) more ›

There's no Swells society column today! Sad! So we're doing a Fake Question Time By The Numbers instead. more ›

From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? more ›

We got a sneak preview of the Jan. 2007 W Magazine article about the San Francisco social life of the Gettys and the Trainas that's referenced in this week's Swells society column. Of course we're giving it the trademarked SFist Society By The Numbers treatment! The article's not online but you should be able to buy it on the newsstands by next week. more ›

It's the last weekend before.... the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Final Push. more ›

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 61. more ›

It's our column about the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Numbers. more ›

There are a couple of unusual spikes on this week's live concerts chart, with Sunday and Tuesday giving the weekend nights a run for their money. Tuesday can't come soon enough because we've got tickets to Eisley on the release date of their debut record Room Noises! See what the buzz is about after the jump. more ›