• OMG, we don't believe it! There are even good restaurants in Brooklyn! [NYDN]

• What is Judith Miller writing about over at The Atlantic anyways? [NYO]

• Oh, Cargo. What will the Thursday Styles staffers do without you? Guess they'll have to settle for their GQ upgrade. (Come on, are you that shocked? They put freakin' Nick Lachey on the cover.) [Gawker]

• Elizabeth Spiers explains to NYU kids why hiring journalists is completely useless. For a blog, for a blog. [IWM]

• Ethan Hawke's office burned down. Now he has to find a new screening room for his next movie. [Gothamist]

• Will Graydon Carter leave Vanity Fair for Paramount? We doubt it — that means he would have to deal with even more celebrities. [NYDN]

• Walter Cronkite loves Jim Lehrer. Now, if only he could just remember what channel he's on. [Texas Monthly]

• Emily Davies just accidentally made all that shit up. [WWD]

• Too bad Duane Swierczynski's article didn't reach her sooner. Oh, yeah, and does this mean that journalism school is not pointless anymore? [PCP]

• Steven Colbert's word "truthiness" wins the American Dialect Society's "word of the year." Damn, we were so hoping it would be PopoZao! [Gothamist]

• So, Judith Miller doesn't really have time to talk right now. Unlike everyone else in this industry, she has reporting to do, so if you bitches could all just back the fuck off. [Observer]

Cullen Murphy and William Langewiesche are both jumping from their 15 year home at The Atlantic Monthly to join the glossy glam of Vanity Fair.

David Carr, using both sides of his brain to battle between his disgust for VF's cover subjects and admission that Graydon Carter is a genius, asks the tough question.

So why would two of the most serious, successful magazine journalists want to work there, of all places?

Especially now that the Bank of America is going up and ruining everyone's life. Even Bruce Handy, a senior articles editor at Vanity Fair, will be totally depressed when the huge building sweeps in and obscures the view.

"There'll be a little less uplift for the soul," he lamented.

See, Carr, it's simple. VF editors can spew melancholy poetry while simultaneously staring at Scarlett Johansson's ass.

A Painted Lady of Magazines, With Gravitas [David Carr, New York Times]
The View From There: Beautiful and Doomed [Joseph Berger]

Earlier: Jiblets: Graydon Carter to lose his room with a view?

• Nobody should hold bloggers to any standards of any kind. [CBS]

• From celeb stalking to blog stalking? This shit is getting extremely out of hand. [NYC Bloggers]

• Andrew Krucoff, forced to make his own fun, spends his birthday week punking the Gawks. [Young Manhattanite]

• Ryan Seacrest, don't hold your breath. Larry King isn't dying just yet. [NYP]

• Want to pick an ASME nominated brain? Now's your chance to catch The Atlantic's "ideas tour." [Ad Age]

• Who better to start a fashion and lifestyle magazine, with no idea where its going, than Isaac Mizrahi? [WWD]

Even though a few independent magazines, like New York, and The Atlantic received some ASME praise in the form of Ellie noms, WWD would like to remind us that the big mag companies are really where it's all about.

Still, the day was hardly a bust for Condé Nast Publications (which owns WWD), which reaped a total of 24 nominations — triple the number received by Time Inc., which had eight, and quadruple Hearst's six. In the women's fashion category, Condé Nast was the only media company represented …

We bet Si Newhouse comes through the not 4 Times Square Conde Nast building and threatens the former Fairchilders with promises of a cafeteria if they don't praise the glory of the Conde.

New Yorker's Off Year [Jeff Bercovici, WWD]

Earlier: ASME nominations: The day many a mag editor gets drunk at Michael's

• What does it take to make a spectacular student newspaper? A belief in first amendment rights and a subscription to TimesSelect. (Ok, we threw in that last part.) [NYT]

• Some New York Times editors go to The Atlantic. Others take the scenic route. [WWD]

• Advice from Jack Shafer to James Bennet: stay up late. Well, at least it's better than Bill Keller's advice: get on that invisible masthead. [Slate]

• Howard Stern, always the mature, classy guy he's known to be, launches an "I Hate Les Moonves" tour. Which in turn inspired Lindsay Lohan to launch her, "I'll take my clothes off for an Oscar" campaign. [NYP]

• Now we know why Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are so damn funny. They warm up by ripping on their scooter-riding executive producer before every show. [Fishbowl NY]

• Total turmoil over at QTN (Queer Television Network). Enter President Lloyd Fan, exit founder Frank Lloyd — and entire management team. [C21]

New York Times reporter James Bennet is set to join The Atlantic as their first editor since 2002.

And nobody could be be happier for Bennet than Bill Keller, the brilliant, up-to-the-minute executive editor of the Times. What's Keller's insightful advice?

"He'll have to slow his heartbeat to the pace of a monthly, which may be frustrating for a guy so deeply engaged in the news, but it's a brilliant choice," Mr. Keller said. "His name on the masthead will be enough to make me grab for the magazine."

Oh, yes, The Atlantic's masthead. Keller must mean that non-existent list of names at the front of the magazine. Or, maybe that's just his kind way of saying, "I'll wont be picking up that piece of shit any time soon."

The Atlantic Picks Writer at The Times as Its Editor [Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times]

Oh, the masthead. It's the bizarre holy grail of magazine hierarchy. Editors, from the time they are mere interns, executive assistants, and EAs, dream that someday their names will loom over a sea of underthings.

The Atlantic, (formerly Atlantic Monthly) is, undoubtedly, no exception. Regarded by some as one of the top publications in the nation, working there is what young journos dream of their entire lives. Little boys reading the book reviews in Couriers and Heralds everywhere don't see their name in lights. They see their name in bold, on a masthead.

Recently, though, David Bradley decided to shake things up a bit. After his mag lost their EIC, Bradley pulled a Village Voice move, keeping the managing editor in an EIC role with no title change. Then that guy left, so … now they just don't have any masthead at all. (Except the one that's still online.)

The accompanying editorial changeover, however, is on a slower schedule. Rather than showcasing a rebuilt masthead, the current issue of The Atlantic includes no masthead at all.

The New Yorker doesn't have a masthead, which seems to work for them. But can you imagine if all the mastheads disappeared from Conde Nast magazines? Everyone would be, looking at people they weren't supposed to be looking at, answering e-mails from their senior editors, sitting at the wrong tables at lunch, eating omelets all over the place. It would just be utter, complete madness. And soo much fun to watch.

Atlantic Owner Hires New Team As If For Himself [Gabriel Sherman, NYO]