Okay, we might have to revise our post from Friday that declared The Stranger's "Inaugural Drinking Issue" the magazine/newspaper "Cover of the Year."

Powell to Step Down as Chairman of F.C.C., Officials Say [NYT]

Never wanting to undermine the importance of educating our youth about the tragic tsunami, we're suggesting this morbid—but fun!—learning game from our federal government:

It's still only January, but we think we've found the magazine/newspaper Cover of the Year: The Stranger, Jan. 20-26, 2005.

Yesterday we introduced you to Zoe Alexander, recent US Weekly castaway and new Editor-at-Large of Life and Style, who's now best known for sending out a multi-tasking email that announced her job change AND opened the doors for publicist pandering. But Zoe's got so much more going on than that! It turns out she's also the founder of Divas Who Dine, "an exclusive, membership-only monthly networking luncheon" designed to foster social networking amongst the ladies who "make things happen." While plenty of these organizations exist and are often quite beneficial to their members, Divas Who Dine has a hefty membership fee which, at last count, hovered above $250.

This is a new one. We're writing about an article that's about an article that hasn't been published yet. It's like something straight out of Minority Report: future journalism crimes.

Is New Beauty the most honest magazine in the world?

Writing articles for magazines and newspapers is hard work! Or, so we've been told by a friend of ours who tricked an associate editor (who happens to be his roommate) into running a 200-word front-of-the-book piece about designer doughnuts for dogs. (He's even supposed to get paid, like, a dollar a word 30-60 days after the piece runs!)

Time for some quick lessons from the House of Gawker: when starting a new job at a new magazine, do be sure to send an announcement to every PR flack in town. That way, we'll know that you're ready and willing to pimp your publication's content to any publicist who comes your way. It's a lot easier than actually looking and reporting on stories the traditional way, says Life And Style's new editor-at-large Zoe Alexander:

From the dripping-wet LA Times:

"A few years ago I read that you cannot be truly successful unless you love what you do for a living. To say that I love CO-ED is an understatement. To me, CO-ED is like the euphoria you feel when you're in college. It's the freedom and the feeling that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to."

According to the Boston Globe:

"Spamalot will cause you to throw your cares back over your shoulder like a toss of good luck salt!"
- 'Spamalot' Sings, Surprises, Liz Smith, Jan. 11, 2005 [NYP]

According to a report in this Sunday's Daily News:

Truth be told, Gawker HQ is a complete mess right now. Ever since Friday night, when we learned that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were separated, we've been stumbling around in a lithium-fueled haze. Empty cartons of Ben & Jerry's are everywhere. We're only wearing elastic waistbands. Things are not good. How are we expected to go on? Is nothing sacred? And why, God, why did you take our genetically perfect couple away from us? Was their combined prettiness too much? Was it for intellectual reasons, like politics? Or was it something more sinister? A reader writes in:

We bid farewell to Rosemary Kennedy, the sister of JFK, RFK, and Teddy Kennedy, and recipient of one of the most insensitive AP obituary headlines in recent memory:

Eric Alterman directs us to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's online reprint of Monday's Mallard Filmore comic strip and wonders "Does it always adhere so closely to traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes?"

You're smart. A real mover and shaker. Breaking the glass ceiling. Oh yeah. So why be an unpaid intern when you can be an unpaid editorial assistant? The Ed2010 newsletter reports on a rare opportunity to be tied down and beaten at CosmoGIRL in the name of professional ladder-climbing:

AP is reporting that MAD Magazine artist Frank Kelly Freas has died at 82. In addition to his work at MAD, Freas created numerous covers for science fiction books and magazines.