Speaking of Details, a much-e-mailed lead food article in the Times on power struggles between couples in the kitchen that appeared Feb. 14, written by that magazine's features editor, Katherine Wheelock, quoted sources like Yolanda Edwards, an editor at Cookie (yet again) and her husband, photographer Matthew Hranek, who shoots for Condé Nast titles Vanity Fair and GQ, among others. Wheelock also relates the kitchen dramas of Andrew Goldman, who wrote the December cover feature on Matt Damon in her own magazine.

Before the launch of Cookie, Guzman herself freelanced for the Times about home and design, and in 2002, wrote her own men-and-women-in-the-kitchen trend story. Carolyn Kremins, publisher of The Week, was half the media couple featured — but at least she doesn't work for Condé Nast.

The lives of media folk would hardly seem to be representative of all New Yorkers (let alone, in an increasingly national newspaper, other Americans). But a Times spokeswoman said, "New York is, to a certain degree, a company town, like Washington. Our 'company' happens to be the media (actually, there are three, if you add fashion and Wall Street)….If these were Washington stories, would one say that lobbyists or Congresswomen were being overly featured, or if we were the L.A. Times, that Hollywood types were mentioned a lot?" — Irin Carmon

ARTFUL EXIT: After barely a month as editor in chief of LTB Media's Culture & Travel, Peter Terzian has resigned. The former assistant books editor at Newsday found himself catapulted to the top spot at the magazine, launched in September, when former editor in chief Michael Boodro left to be editor of Martha Stewart Living. Terzian confirmed Tuesday that he had left the company, but declined to comment further.

This is only the latest defection from the ailing arts magazine group headed by Canadian millionaire and collector Louise MacBain, whose leadership at the titles has been controversial from the start. Former Condé Nast editorial director James Truman quit only days after Culture & Travel's launch. Former Wall Street Journal editor Alexandra Peers will replace Truman later this month. — I.C.

OVER THE EDGE: Dolce & Gabbana appears to be in hot water over an advertisement that shows a man pinning a woman down by her wrists. According to local and wire service reports, the ad, which has been criticized for condoning violence against women, was withdrawn on Tuesday by the company, although it will still appear in some magazines with deadlines that have already passed. The Italian union CGIL's textile workers division reportedly called for a boycott of the Italian fashion house on International Women's Day and Amnesty International asked for it to be removed. Dolce & Gabbana in the U.S. did not return calls for comment. — A.W.

COUNT CAREFULLY: Circulation at Wenner Media's Us Weekly in the second half of last year grew 5.4 percent over the same period in 2005, to 1,751,709, boosted in part by a 9 percent growth in subscriptions. But there's a hitch in those numbers: Us Weekly would not have cleared its 1.75 million rate base if it weren't for 31,048 in average verified subscriptions. Moreover, verified subs — or those in public places like doctors' waiting rooms and hairdressers — swung wildly from 2,952 in the middle of the period to 202,905 in its last week.