Martha tries to spruce up Jay's ratings, Ed Norton joins Jimmy Kimmell, while most other hosts take the week off. What a bunch of deadbeats! We've got your rundown of what to watch tonight.

Steve Adler resigned as editor in chief of BusinessWeek, the New York Post's Keith Kelly reports, effective as soon as Bloomberg LP completed its expected takeover of the McGraw-Hill magazine. This was to be expected.

The Huffington Post's tech reporter attended a wild Los Angeles party with Arianna and woke up without all his belongings; MySpace made a reporter feel dirty and Choire Sicha got not-quite-solicited advice on his vagina. The Twitterati were bewildered.

The battle between celebrity media and California has been a winking-frenemy-like affair since ancient times. But suddenly the gloves are off and the state seems hell bent on taking a sledgehammer to the skull of the Hollywood Press.

[This New York street art using an iconic Madonna image has been touched more than the very first time. Image via alan(ator)'s Flickr]

• Barack Obama had lunch today at Craftsteak, just so you know. [NBC]
• Corsino, the latest restaurant by Jason Denton of 'ino and 'inoteca fame, has opened in the space previously occupied by Frederick's Downtown. [UD, GS]
• Unfortunate news for new NYT restaurant critic Sam Sifton: His predecessor, Frank Bruni, says it's impossible for critics to be anonymous these days. [CNN]
• Did you know LA has surpassed NYC as the "deli capital of America"? That's what the author of a new book on the delicatessen says, at least. [LAT]
• Megu is the latest restaurant to get slapped with a labor lawsuit. [GS]
• Bon Appétit isn't following in Gourmet's footsteps and closing down. But it did reportedly hand out pink slips to a bunch of staffers today. [Gawker]
• Fashion stylist Robert Verdi, who says "thin is in," isn't the most tolerant guy in the world: "I think food is for fat people and poor people," he says. [Cut]

There's only ten shopping days left before Halloween. So, it's time for Halloween costume listicles! Lots of people want to tell you what to wear. We'd like to spare you the humiliation of following their advice.

Attack of the Blondes: Taylor Momsen, Lindsay Lohan, and Donatella Versace at the Whitney Museum of American Art annual gala last night.

predicting on Extra! last December that her supposed feud with Palin (remember when that was a thing?) would end once her book was published; Palin's appearing on Oprah's show on Nov. 16, one day before Going Rogue goes on sale.

In advance of Goldman Sachs' anticipated gargantuan charitable donation calculated to mask the stench of its taxpayer-financed cash bonanza, CityFile rummaged through the past recipients of Goldman's largesse. Guess what they found? Tony, preposterously expensive private prep schools, that's what!

Bitches want Philly fakeball Arthur Kade to take them to dinner in order to get inside their drawers. That's not Kade Style; but his little SEX DROUGHT is getting pretty bad. How bad?

American may be making its way away from the print version of the Gray Lady, but perhaps its past time for her to make her leap from newsprint to big screen star.

That's right, today Real Housewife of New York Frankel confirmed that she is pregnant. Did she know before she signed on for her own reality show? Or before she got engaged? And what will Jill Zarin say? So many questions!

Playboy is cutting its rate base from 2.6 million to 1.5 million, nearly a 40% drop. But...but...naked cartoon characters! What more do you pervs want? [Mediaweek. Pic: TMZ]

Running a microblogging service and raising a son are, perhaps, challenges enough for Ev Williams. The Twitter CEO tells us he's no longer building a house with his wife, as he told the New York Times in March.

Padma is Mad magazine; Pia is Cracked. Padma is Oreos; Pia is Hydrox.... and so a lovely word-game thread begins

• It's Tuesday, which means fresh job cuts at Condé Nast have been revealed. In addition to the dozen Glamour staffers laid off yesterday, Style.com will cut Candy Pratts Price. And 200+ more layoffs could be ahead. [WWD, NYP, FWD]
• Maybe Condé Nast's fancy iPhone application, which was announced today, will stem the red ink? Maybe not. But it certainly can't hurt either. [AdAge]
• BusinessWeek editor-in-chief Steve Adler says he will step down once the sale of the magazine to Bloomberg LP is completed in about a month. [BW]
• Sarah Palin will be Oprah's guest on November 16 as the former governor embarks on her book tour. Many of her fans aren't happy, unsurprisingly. [CT]
• The search for a Good Morning America co-host continues at ABC News. The front-runner at the moment seems to be George Stephanopoulos. [LAT]
• Malcolm Gladwell says journalists shouldn't go to journalism school. [Time]
• Harvey Weinstein's book publishing company is giving up its independence. It will be combined with Perseus Books starting December 1. [WSJ]

Hey everyone, Barack Obama is having a late lunch at Craftsteak right now! It's the latest of the safe choices the president has made when dining out in our fair city. What do his dining choices say about him?

The High Line was once a grimy set of abandoned train tracks. Now it's a fancy park for fancy people. So the fancy people want to scrub all the graffiti off the surrounding buildings, lest it hurt their fancy eyes.

Earlier this month, the Weinstein brothers jettisoned their stake in A Small World, the wobbly Facebook-for-Millionaires social networking site. Today, they announced a "joint venture" with Perseus Books to reduce the overhead at their book publishing arm.