[This man was one of thousands who emerged from the Moskva River into the -13° air in Moscow today during a Russian Orthodox ritual celebrating Epiphany. Image via AP]

New York's skinniest house — a 9 1/2 foot-wide townhouse on Bedford Street — has just sold for $2.1 million. Former residents include Edna St. Vincent Millay and anthropologist Margaret Mead. It was built in 1873, filling an alleyway. [AP]

Important AP news analysis: is Barack Obama sleepy? He gets three hours less sleep a night than Bush and he stayed up until 1 a.m. one night!

Snow is coming! Snow is coming! In New York City, this is either the best or the worst thing that can happen. Let's reminisce on what the city looks like when it's buried in ice crystals.

[President Barack Obama gets some help from his first ladies, Sasha, Malia, and Michelle, when lighting the national Christmas tree in D.C. today. Image via AP]

[If you're going to JFK International Airport today, you will see nothing like the pristine modernism from the TWA Terminal in 1962. It will be a complete mess jammed with lines and screaming travelers. Good luck!. Image via AP]

In your merciful Monday media column: Carl Kasell gets to sleep in now, more rumored AP layoffs, crazy "old media" types eschew pointless media beef, and Verlyn Klinkenborg defended like a doe, a deer, a female deer, shut up, Verlyn.

Circulation rates going up! That's great! Print's dying and someone's succeeding! THANK GOD. Except, not. While circulations go up, fewer people are getting newspapers circulated to them. How?

We've updated (hopefully for the last time) our AP Layoffs List with the final flood of tips that came in late yesterday and this morning. A few final thoughts on the list, for those AP people still checking it:

AP spokesman Paul Colford just sent over this statement on the company's layoffs:

We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below.

The AP's layoffs continued yesterday. Small AP bureaus seem particularly vulnerable. We updated our comprehensive AP Layoff List this morning with several new tips we received overnight, and we'll continue to update today as new info comes in. [The List]

This morning, we've updated our AP Layoff List post with multiple new tips, including bureau closures in the US and abroad, and names of some more layoff victims. We'll continue to update it as info comes in. [AP Layoff List]

The layoffs at the AP are indeed happening today. We're compiling a list of all the casualties—the ones we hear about and the ones reported elsewhere. Click through for our continuously updated list.

Last month we heard that the AP might need to make hundreds of layoffs before the end of the year. Some of those layoffs, we hear, could be coming today.

Former NY Times food critic Frank Bruni has signed a schmancy deal to bring his memoir Born Round to the small screen. What actor is going to play the tortured former fatty?

Last November, the AP decided it would be reducing its budget 10% this year—costing up to 400 jobs, we heard at the time. How's that going? Michael Calderone estimates they may need hundreds more layoffs before January. [Politico] *Clarification:

[Madonna tries to stifle a yawn behind her hat while she and daughter Lourdes Leon sit through the ground-breaking ceremony for her school for girls in Malawi today. Image via AP]

[Penn Badgley has a lady at his front and Gossip Girl costar Ed Westwick coming up for the rear while on the red carpet for the premiere of his new movie The Stepfather last night. Image via AP]

In your finally Friday media column: a sunny theory about Conde Nast, Katie Couric's words of wisdom, George Will learns exactly where to go, and the AP's crazy scheme, for money.