Feck Fashion Week photo galleries. Style.com has them. So, too, does New York, Coutorture, the Daily News, Fashionista, and the endless blogs with readerships of two hundred. And they're all the same! WireImage or Getty or some other service that everyone is pulling from. Even the party photos on Guest of a Guest and Down By The Hipster are indistinguishable. So we appreciate this entry from BlackBook — the first entry of illustrated coverage we've seen, and it's quite to our liking. It's of Charlotte Ronson's afterparty at Country Club on 14th Street, where Lindsay Lohan, Sam Ronson, and Nicole Richie made guests feel fat.

It's an all-out regime change at Ari Horowitz and Bob Hoff's BlackBook.

Earlier this month, managing editor Una LaMarche and photo director Shannon Hall took off. Publisher Joe Landry followed them out the door, with a gig lined up at old haunts Out and The Advocate.

And now Steve Garbarino, the magazine's editor since April 2006, is gone, but not without first securing his next step: editor-at-large at Alpha Media's Maxim.

Replacing Garbarino will be old features editor Ray Rogers, seen here, on the right, with his predecessor. [BBM]

Naturally, our first instinct when witnessing a wave of top-level departures is to expect massive unrest and patent unhappiness. Who hated who? Who backstabbed who? Who didn't love a glossy book filled with pretty people enough to stay? Tell us.

Mediabistro's "How to Pitch" series gallops along with its newest edition: BlackBook. The title of turmoil, now headed by Steve Garbarino after EIC Aaron Hicklin left for Out, offers newbie bylines a wide open left-field for FOB pitches. While you should avoid anything to do with film, music, or books, editors might jump on political or "quirky" news items. At $1 a word, you won't be cleaning up here, but there is some advice we can offer: The following is worth paying attention to:

Payment schedule: 45 days after publication

It's almost as if they mean it!

While Vibe puts on a public face that no, editor-in-chief Mimi Valdes (whose history with the mag began in '93) and her staff are not on the way out, gossip insists otherwise. The source for the masthead shake up rumors come from anon-a-blog Bitter Vibes, penned by an angry ex-staffer (so you can see where there might be an agenda).

[S]ome of the comments on the blog and they said Mimi Valdes was crying her eyes out, and she has until next week Wednesday to clean out her desk. They also posted the list of the ‘alleged’ staff members that got the boot. The list is as follows: Mimi Valdes, Shani Saxon, Eric Parker, Jamie Katz, and Lakeba Hollar.

Vibe's reps tell Gawker that story isn't true at all, and the media blog is almost ready to believe the publicist. But then we must remember the Number One rule of ousting senior staffers: never tell your talking heads until you're ready to tell the world.

Update: Maybe all this has something to do with Vibe being sold to BlackBook's publisher Keith Glen Media? [Mediaweek]

HEADS ROLLIN’ @ VIBE MAGAZINE? [Concrete Loop]
Mimi Valdes Continues to Work at ‘Vibe,’ to the Best of Our Knowledge [Gawker]

• Leonardo DiCaprio is on the road to becoming the next Jude Law. [Mollygood]

• We understand citizen journalism, but, uh, citizen advertising? Elle magazine is just taking things to the way next level. [Mediaweek]

• If you crash one party this year, seriously make it this one. Maer Roshan and Steve Garbarino in a swanky underground get together is guaranteed to equal meta media gossip. [Page Six]

• Patricia Arquette marries her "actor boyfriend." Between her hairdo and Nicole Kidman's dress, wedding glamour is really starting to deteriorate. [People]

• Time magazine has a mission, and they'll use every gimmick possible to execute it. And now Fishbowl has a mission to take on Rick Stengel in a pick-up game … we sure do hope they'll tape that, too. [FBNY]

(Note: Lawyers for OK! forced us to take down their exclusive photos of Gwen Stefani and crew. If anyone wants to sketch something from memory for us and send it over, though, we'll be glad to run it.)

• Esquire guys want to have dinner with Condoleezza Rice, Jay Leno, and Jennifer Aniston? Thank goodness because nobody else wants to be anywhere near them. [Fox]

• Maybe with a new editor in the form of Steve Garbarino, BlackBook will be able to avoid those little Conde confusions. [Gawker]

• Entertainment Weekly maintains we still need movie critics. And that movie critics aren't snobs. And that real critics are still more important than those playing around with technology like "the web." [EW via Romenesko]

• Gwen Stefani's baby Kingston may not save Africa, but if he and Shiloh spawn that would be like hotness to the 8th power or something. [Mollygood]

• Are they positively sure that Arianna Huffington didn't say "daaahlings?" [FBNY]

Remember the rumors that Meryl Streep would be banned from ever again appearing on the cover of Vogue for playing the Anna Wintour character in the Devil Wears Prada? Well, the rumors continue, this time trickling down to Anne Hathaway.

According to Ad Age, a feature article in the June/July issue of BlackBook magazine, claims the actress' involvement in the movie "blackballed" her, along with coverage of the film — the result was a ban of all things Devil from gracing the pages of any Conde Nast covers.

In the BlackBook article (which we haven't read, but hopefully journo Meredith Deliso has) Hathaway apparently denies experiencing any form of balling during the process of promoting her film … probably because she remembered the photo shoots she'd done for them already.

… the June/July issue of Jane, a relatively new member of the Conde Nast family after starting life as a Fairchild publication, splashes the starlet on its cover. She's also the subject of a feature story.

In fact, Conde's spin doctor says, Hathaway is not only on the cover of Jane, but also graced Teen Vogue back in February, when film was already widely visible and in production. Plus, as we all know, Ms. Wintour herself attended the screening, proving that she can take a punch.

Plus its not like Anna actually runs all of Conde Nast …

The Devil and Anne Hathaway [Meredith Deliso, Ad Age]

*Ed Note: Our editor freelances for BlackBook … they won't pay her til she turns her crap in, but we have a connection to the pub, blah, blah, blah.