Overall, its a nice layout ^^
Just a couple of suggestions:
The light affiliate buttons you have -you could use a mouse rollover script so that they change to their full bold colour when you scroll over the button.
I think it'd look better having that second sidebar on the right, rather than both on the left, since it means when you open the page you cant directly read the news without scrolling across or maximising the page.
Apart from that its a very sweet layout ^^