April:

GQ’s alcohol advertisers pull out of the magazine’s Lindsay Lohan issue. Why? With the exception of the French Quarter, she’s not legal.

May:

Time’s 100 Most Influential People list includes Borat, Bin Laden, Obama – and, thankfully, not “You.”

Men’s Fitness puts tennis player Andy Roddick on its cover, and promptly gives him Rafael Nadal’s biceps. Roddick writes on his blog: “Little did I know I have 22 inch guns and a disappearing birth mark on my right arm…. I can barely figure out how to work the red-eye tool on my digital camera. Whoever did this has mad skills.” Furious, design consultant Mary Anne Bulter resigns.

June:

Slate’s Timothy Noah calls the Tom Junod-penned Angelina Jolie profile in Esquire the “worst celebrity profile ever written.” Junod calls Noah a disgruntled Yalie.

September:

Vogue wins FOLIO:’s first-ever fall fashion issue weigh-in, lumbering into the Red 7 mailroom at 4.88 pounds.

November:

The Atlantic Monthly celebrates its 150th anniversary with a star-studded party in New York. The party planners, though, decide to hold the event in a theater, reserving the “stage” for VIPs and the rest of the venue for NIPs. Awkward.