We understand Wemple's City Paper did that, too.

Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub — upper-middle-brow author of books on Times Square and City College and innumerable articles about Rudy Giuliani — has even greater range than we all thought: Seems he's a metal fan, too.

In addition to reminding us that Mort Zuckerman isn't happy with his portrayal in the forthcoming memoir from the billionaire publisher's former Daily News editor, Ed Kosner, Post media man Keith Kelly relishes the opportunity to point out errors in Kosner's recollection of life at the Post's crosstown rival. For example, Kelly writes,

Because American Idol is not merely a television show but rather a very popular television show, news about its winner has been elevated — perhaps everywhere, but certainly at the Times — from the remote precincts of the Arts section to the sober pages of the National Report, where today, for the second consecutive edition, Alessandra Stanley is given an A-section spot for her musings about cheesily overwrought TV-show singers. But you know what makes Alessandra's report today particularly compelling? That we count at least three errors.

We were pleased over the weekend to notice at our local magazine stand the first issue of Martha Stewart's new Blueprint magazine. And we would have been even more pleased if she'd been able to hire some premier copy editors for her premiere issue.

• 16 on Death Row, Tupac
• Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult
• 18 and Life, Skid Row
• Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash
• Going Down to Die, Danzig
• Stranded on Death Row, Dr. Dre

American's most powerful corrupt gossip column today passes along the moving tale of a celebrity couple supporting each other's projects:

Yes, that is a black man in a suit. No, it is not slain rapper Proof, as identified. No, we can't say this is surprising.

Profanity, Live on CNN? [Philadelphia Will Do]

We've always argued — long before we started this gig, even — that the first rule of being a smartass is that you have to be right. (The only thing more insufferable than someone smug about being correct is someone who's both smug and incorrect.) An obvious corollary to this idea, we'd imagine, is that if you're going to be a pretentious name dropper, you've got to at least drop the right names. Which is why we were so pleased to see in New York's glossary of names dropped in Plum Sykes' new roman-a-pretention, The Debutante Divcoree, this mention near the bottom:

The lede of yesterday's Times Magazine profile of American Apparel bigshot Dov Charney describes the surroundings in the kinky clothier's Los Angeles office:

A few weeks ago, as you might recall, New York mag announced that Shopsin's, the West Village institution with an interminable menu and a cantankerously charming — charmingly cantankerous? — owner, was up and moving to Brooklyn, looking for cheaper rent. Then the Daily News followed up on the story, downgrading the move from fait accompli to something Kenny Shopsin was considering. But now we're hearing it's not true at all. A source who lives across the street from the restaurant emails:

It's been far too long, but today's Times corrections column delivers:

• Lindsay Lohan may have cried wolf about being misquoted in Vanity Fair, but she's been legitimately misquoted in W about acknowledging that her mother and siblings visit their father in jail. There are no such visits and W will be issuing a correction. No correction in VF however — the girl said she puked, and the tape recorder doesn't lie. [Page Six]
• If Alec Baldwin were forced to sleep with right-wing harridan Ann Coulter, he'd "jump out the window" — and then the Republicans would win again. [Lowdown]
• Katie Holmes is so dedicated to smiling her way through this nightmare, she'll blankly grin even while Tom Cruise talks about being abused as a child. Or maybe she's just genuinely happy to hear about that kind of thing. [Page Six]
• After a whopping 82 days of their second try at marriage, Eminem has filed for divorce from Kim. [R&M (2nd item)]
• Paris Hilton says former BFF Nicole Richie is "jealous" and "pathetic." Atta girl, Paris — keep this bitch fight going! Simple Life 15 premieres soon! [Scoop]

Maybe it's not Alessandra's fault at all. Maybe it's just television that does it to you:

A fine set of lingerie, however? La Perla could cure cancer.

Prepare yourself for yet another Timesian we-didn't-do-any-due-diligence mega mea culpa, this time shaking the heretofore hard-hitting reporters of the Styles desk to their very core. In yesterday's annual hey-look-beards-are-in expose, fashion reporter Eric Wilson suggested that the facially hirsute folks at Vice are vying "with the pro-facial-hair contingent of an editorial rival, Spin, where a rash of new beards has broken out." But the truth is — and please make sure you're sitting down before we shatter your Woodsteinian notions about ThuStyles — we're told no one at Spin has a beard.

• The art you've always wanted: A sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth. On a bearskin rug. And "the crowning of baby Sean's head." Where would you find such a thing? In Williamsburg, of course. [Send2Press]
• This week's Times correction of the week: "An article in The Metro Section on March 8 profiled Donna Fenton, identifying her as a 37-year-old victim of Hurricane Katrina who had fled Biloxi, Miss., and who was frustrated in efforts to get federal aid as she and her children remained as emergency residents of a hotel in Queens. Yesterday, the New York police arrested Ms. Fenton, charging her with several counts of welfare fraud and grand larceny. Prosecutors in Brooklyn say she was not a Katrina victim, never lived in Biloxi and had improperly received thousands of dollars in government aid." People are so nit-picky these days. [NYT]
• AC 360 finds a new scourge to campaign against: The evil practice of puppy smuggling. [CNN]
• There are dates that end well and dates that end less well. And then there are dates the end in night court. Even worse, without Judge Harry T. Stone. Yikes. [CourtTV]
• Is this for real? Who knows. But it would seem that Mobile, Ala., residents found themselves a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day, according to the local NBC affiliate. [YouTube]

For those of you keeping track at home, let's run down the tortured history of the Times coverage of that Picasso sold through Costco.com.

At right is the cover of last week's Newsweek. And here is the correction from this week's Newsweek: