GQ held its second annual "Best New Menswear Designer in America" competition last night in conjunction witht he CFDA. Finalists like Andre "3000" Benjamin, David Mullen, Alex Carleton, Robert Geller, Sam Shipley, Jeff Halmos, and Yigal Azrouel were joined by guests like Tommy Hilfiger, Fern Mallis (left), Thom Browne, Jim Nelson, Kelly Cutrone, Phillip Lim, Derek Lam, Peter Som, Rory Tahari, Chase Crawford, Steven Kolb, Ally Hilfiger, Fonzworth Bentley, David Chu, Ryan Leslie, David Lauren, Katie Lee Joel, Glenn O'Brien, Steven Alan, Calvin Klein mens creative director Italo Zucchelli, GQ publisher Peter Hunsinger, and last year's winner, Daiki Suzuki. [PMc, NYO, FWD]

Conde Nast's home shopping magazine Domino folded last month. Here, photos of their magazine death party, at the apartment of editor Deborah Needleman. Note the bottles of Stella, the official beverage of magazine closings. Sad.

Only in our nightmares does Barbara Walters shriek, "Do you have sex?" in a repeated, accusatory tone—and yet, when it happened on The View today, it was strangely satisfying.

How did Fortune decide Cisco was near the top of its "Best Places to Work" list? An unhappy tipster at the networking-equipment maker leaked this report from a company meeting happening now:

· Samuel Bayer, director of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, will reboot Nightmare on Elm Street. Odd choice? Not when you consider the iconic things he's done with striped tops and jumping girls.

Mort Zuckerman is in pretty good shape for a man his age; he even mixes with the ladies a fair amount, an impressive feat considering he's in his 70s. But Zuckerman has named a successor at the New York Daily News anyway. His 11-year-old daughter. (On the bright side, if she ended up taking over tomorrow, it's unlikely she could really do any more damage to an industry that's already on its last legs.) The clip from Zuckerman's appearance on Charlie Rose's show earlier this week is above.

MSNBC's Peter Alexander concludes an interview today with the president of the NAACP by noting, "The president honors this country's colored people." Nilla! Shortly afterwards Alexander apologized, which was even more amusing.

Justifiably, semi-apologies and awards-season censure aren't going far enough to repair Miley Cyrus's SlantyGate-poisoned reputation among Asians. It's going to take a lot more — like $4 billion more — to achieve litigated peace.

Following months of rumors and allegations about his bad behavior, pervy Box boss Simon Hammerstein has finally been slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit by the Porcelain Twinz, two of the venue's best-known performers until they quit last summer. The burlesque dancers have been putting on a kinky act for years, but they claim it never involved engaging in "incestuous sexual relations with each other," at least not until they met Hammerstein and he forced them to put on "twincest" shows at the venue. They also say he demanded oral sex in exchange for free housing and, later, so he would sign on as a guarantor on a rental apartment. That doesn't strike us as the worst deal in the world (even accounting for Hammerstein's all-around grossness), but we imagine a judge probably won't see it that way.

With Valentine's Day almost upon us, you'll be seeing countless news stories about love, dating, and all the delightful trappings of the chocolate and flower industries' annual celebration of romance. Unfortunately, Slate had to come along and sully this sacred holiday with a look at, of all things, "male enhancement" products. We'll protect your delicate sensibilities from too many of the sordid details, but suffice it to say the reporter, following extensive research, isn't prepared to endorse either enlargement pills, weights, pumps, or surgical augmentation. Not that he actually tries any of these out himself, of course—or if he does, he keeps understandably quiet about it. [Slate]

The Rihanna/Chris Brown case continues to get complicated: the district attorney may have a weak case based on the criminal threats charge, but information from Rihanna herself could bring new accusations.

Fashion Week is right around the corner, so now's the time to start accessorizing. The colorful Sony^® VAIO^® Lifestyle PC is just 1.4 lbs, so it'll fit perfectly in your designer bag. Check it out here.

Gay-marriage-hating ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman is running for governor of California. First stop, the Today Show, where she talked about jobs, jobs, jobs.

• Viacom reported a 69 percent drop in its fourth-quarter profit today. [NYT]
• Vibe is cutting back to 10 issues a year and merging its print and digital operations. It's also slashing pay and adopting a four-day workweek. [AdAge]
• Sirius XM is looking to sell the company to Liberty Media in order to fend off a takeover by satellite entrepreneur Charles Ergen. [WSJ, NYT]
• Paul Allen's Charter Communications may file Chapter 11 by April. [THR]
• Scene from Domino's death party last night. [Gawker]
• Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds will hit theaters this August. [RB]

Hey Real World: Brooklyn. Here's the heezy right over here. You need to get back on it. Because you were certainly off it last night. (That didn't make sense, I know.)

Bobbie Battista was a CNN anchor for 20 years, covering everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11. What's she up to now? Reading fake news for The Onion. A step up!

Do you remember when running away to Dubai was everybody's Plan B? The Persian Gulf statelet, relatively light on oil, invented a boom through sheer hope and flashiness. Now foreigners are fleeing.

For all the hoaxy drama behind Joaquin Phoenix's hip-hop ambitions, you can't say the guy isn't serious about effectively throwing his film career away after watching his spectacular self-immolation last night on The Late Show.

Dealbreaker has some very useful "dos" and "don'ts" if you happen to be a financial fraudster still at large, and you're currently planning your flight from justice. "Don't: Wear expensive cowboy boots and show the flight crew your hoard of $4 to $5 million in gold. Yes. They are very impressed. And now they will never, ever forget your face." [Dealbreaker]

As fashion designers struggle for survival in an economic environment that's seeing even the most profligate clothing whores balk at spending thousands on new outfits, a revolutionary idea has been proposed. Make sure you're sitting down, because you won't ever have heard the likes of this before: Believe it or not, it's being suggested that in order to stay in business, designers make clothes that people like. We know, this is so far from the dream that puts fire in the bellies of starry-eyed young Parsons students, but Diane von Furstenberg, nothing if not a fashion survivor herself, believes that runway shows ought to be unveiling "clothes that are real friends to women, so that 'friend' will make you feel good when you open your closet." As opposed to the usual enemies that make you feel bad! It's a risky proposition, but hey, with everything else we thought we understood about the world now turned upside down, it might just work.