The surprising (in that it didn't come on Thursday) last graf of Eric Wilson's Times report on menswear shows over the weekend:

It's unlike Sunday Styles to actually contain some news you can news — as opposed to news that is utterly impractical and useless, and which you love to hate or hate to love. But yesterday the Times reporter formerly known as Jodi Wilgoren finally explained everything:

The first issue of PLAY: The New York Times Sports Magazine — a new, quarterly Sunday insert — debuts Sunday. And apparently it's produced by the people who brought you Thursday Styles. (The sports-section people would probably have done something dumb like put the Super Bowl on the cover, rather than the hot, stubbly guy. Stupid sports-section people.)

Also, we hear there's a whole bunch of fags skiing.

We have no idea why it took the Times a full month to correct this one, but there are few things we hate more than inaccuracies involving roller derby. From today's Times corrections column:

It's a classic New York story: Some people shoved a mattress in a hole cut in a wall, then put the space for rent ($35) on Craigslist. One person who looked at the mattress was a man named Drew, who didn't want his last name published.

And yet sometimes — particularly on Thursdays — we take a look at the paper, and we say to ourselves: For this we have a First Amendment?

Yeah, it's almost as though he was bred for it.

Two memos went out at the Times today, and we can't help but see a connection.

The first month of the year new year ended yesterday, and, in addition to giving us a fresh page on our big wall calendar, it also meant it was time to check on all our favorite New York Times cultural critics to figure out who gets to wear the "Most Inaccurate January" sash.

• Now, Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson will take turns joining Elizabeth Vargas on World News Tonight. We really hope they can work George Stephanopoulos into that rotation, too. [NYT]
• CBS Newser John Roberts decamps for CNN. If your bosses told you they had no idea who'll be the next anchor but they're sure it won't be you, you'd leave too. [Public Eye]
• High-ranking laddie Andy Clerkson grows up and moves out. The Dennis Publishing editorial director will leave his job, summer in Montauk, have a kid, and move back to England. [WWD]
• One of the many companies that isn't buying the Observer: Reed Elsevier. [NYP (last item)]
• NYO on NYT: Ric Burns to produce docu on the Gray Lady, and war gets in the way of Jill Abramson and Maureen Dowd's planned trip to Iraq. [NYO (second and third items)]

Yesterday afternoon we brought your attention to the Daily News's front-page interview with former Rangers City Skater Courtney Prince, who is suing Madison Square Garden for sexual harassment. Among the unfortunate incidents Prince cites was one involving a New York Times reporter, who allegedly attempted to entice her into a threesome with Rangers flack Jason Vogel. The identity of the reporter, however, was left sadly unspecified. And so we turned to you, dear readers, for insight.

It's a hysterically dark day in the Times' Dining section, as foodie beastlord Amanda Hesser has returned! OK, so technically she never left — she was merely banished to a column in the magazine, which was just hidden enough for us to forget her spoon obsession and comfortably settle in Frank Bruni's warm embrace. But today Hesser is on actual newsprint, in the real dining section.

We didn't look at this earlier, as we admit we should have, because, well, even with all sorts of sexual-harassment charges, we still figured there's no way hockey is ever interesting. We were wrong. Courtney Prince, a former captain of the Rangers' cheerleading squad, the Rangers City Skaters, who a year and a half ago filed suit against Madison Square Garden for sexual harassment, has an exclusive first interview on the front page of today's Daily News. Among her unpleasant stories is this one:

Ken Auletta did a major New Yorker profile of Arthur Sulzberger Jr. at the end of last year, and at one point in it he described Bill Keller, the Times editor, as "at times, given to strange jokes." We took that to refer to Keller's inexplicable affection for something-in-the-water-that-makes-your-penis-fall-off punchlines. (See: Here and here.)

Remember Times film critic Elvis Mitchell? Our obsessions are fleeting at best, but we vaguely recall virtually stalking him as he crawled away from the Times and towards Harvard — or whatever the fuck he was doing. For those of you wondering what 2006 brings to Elvis' doorstep, an interesting press release:

Jesus H. Christ. Two corrections in the same edition? Shit. Who could imagine such a thing? Certainly not us, which is why we missed the second one the first time around.

Because "blogs" are increasingly "valid," FishbowlNY got some time with the Times' jolly Op-Ed man Frank Rich. And what was discussed during this valuable opportunity? Showtunes. Oh, excuse us — the NYC media's showtune agenda. Don't laugh: we'd do the exact same thing. Our dream list of equally compelling list of topics we'd throw at the Op-Ed team:

Thought you could sneak this past us, Times, by running it two and a half week's later and on a Saturday? Oh, no.

A front-page Times headline today: