On Monday, Us Weekly will throw their own damn fashion week party, and honor their 25 most fashionable New Yorkers. Who are they? We just got our hands on the until-now top-secret list—and actually, it's innaresting! (Not a tabloid girl in sight, for one thing.) Sam Champion! Padma Lakshmi! Stephen Colbert! Tim Gunn! And... the MisShapes! But we won't hold that against them, because they've also got Marcus Samuelsson, the hot Ethiopian-Swede chef of Aquavit, on the list.

As the folks over at CBS's Public Eye note, summer is the season of the list. (The article functions as a collection of lists itself, which is probably intentional.) Why is this the case? Well, nothing happens between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and lazy journalists need to fill space. This problem also affects bloggers, who are even lazier than journalists. Inspired by Jon Friedman's contribution to the genre ("The biggest media stories of 2007 are ..."), we decided to make a list of our own biggest stories this year, as judged by a special correspondent.