Ever go through the microfilm for your city's local newspaper? I guarantee you, there is a section in there devoted to exactly this sort of gossip. The thing is, though, it's written so you have to be at least partially in the know.

Mr. & Mrs. Hoffsteder of Birch St. entertained a visiting Mister Chufleigh on the previous Tuesday.

The bachelors of West Maple Rd. and 12th St. had a small get together upon last Saturday night

so this isn't particularly new. it is kinda weird to think pockets of the anglophones all across the planet just know the weird beef of one polycule on the west coast, though