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VIBE has joined forces with NYC's legendary LAVO NYC doorman/fashion designer, Richard Wheeler, to create a limited edition HOUS shirt that will be sold exclusively at our first-ever V-Mix concert starring A-Trak and A$AP Mob, this Thursday Nov 29. (TICKETS HERE). Wheeler sat down to give us the skinny of secrets to passing his coveted red rope, the 411 on the VIBE collabo and more.

Good news for purveyors of sweatshop-made sportswear: you too can be inducted into a hall of fame meant to celebrate athletic excellence! Take it from Phil Knight, the chairman and co-founder of Nike, who will join the ranks of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. None other than Michael Jordan will present him, as a small thank-you for all those endorsement deals.

● The internet's choir wants us to believe that Beyoncé has given birth to a little girl named Tina-May Carter, but we won't say for sure until Uncle Kanye twitpics it. [Huff Post]

Chromeo has a new video out for their song "Don't Turn The Lights On." The song itself is one of the grooviest electro-jams I've heard in a while, and the video, well, it's even groovier. Lady Gaga might have the sets, the costumes, and the backup dancers, but with this simple yet effective clip, Chromeo proves that all you need is some cheap-yet-ingenious visual trickery to create a dazzling music video.

In a twist that no one could have predicted, William Shatner thinks that swearing is no big deal. The Shats is currently set to star in CBS's adaptation of the twitter feed Shit My Dad Says, but the show has been plagued by network hand-wringing about what exactly its title should be. Stuff My Dad Says? $#*! My Dad Says? Bleep My Dad Says? Americans have values, after all! After much spirited debate, the network has settled on a title, and Shatner is none too pleased.

What do you do when you're a beloved cult fantasy filmmaker who pulls out of directing Peter Jackson's The Hobbit after the project encounters numerable frustrating delays? How do you come back from abandoning one of the holy grails of fantasy cinema? If you're Guillermo del Toro, you team up with James mother-frickin' Cameron to direct a 3D adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness. Wow. The original Lovecraft story dealt with a scientific expedition to the South Pole in the 1930s. Horrible discoveries are made, life forms are awakened, discoveries challenge what we know about ourselves, and lots of terrifying et cetera happens. This might actually be so good that it's a good thing del Toro dropped out of The Hobbit?

Breaking news! Isaiah Mustafa -- the "Old Spice Guy" (ladies!) -- has been cast in a Jennifer Aniston film titled Horrible Bosses. This thrilling tidbit was revealed in an extensive, super exclusive interview in which The Hollywood Reporter sat down with the "Old Spice Guy" (~10% of fellas!) to find out what makes him tick, what he thinks of the cast of The Jersey Shore, and how he -- and he alone -- can cure Jennifer Aniston's arid, babyless ladybits. My favorite part of the interview after the break.

One day, when our space children are playing in the space garden and our space dogs are fetching us our space newspapers and dropping them at our space feet, when space Hollywood produces nothing but movies about trinkets and geriatric reality TV stars and bottle caps that the producers found in their belly buttons that morning, our space children will ask us, "Space mommy and space daddy, were you really surprised and disgusted all those many time units ago when grand vizier Rihanna decided to star in a movie about a board game, because that seems normal to us?" I will have to sigh and tell them, "yes, Unit 1793B59HUD, one day, long ago, before Bjork became Chancellor of the Space Treasury, Hollywood made movies about actual things and cast actual movie stars in these movies about actual things." "But space daddy," they will ask me, "what is actual?"

On the one hand, I'm predisposed towards disliking this movie, as I had to log this review multiple times due to my short circuiting computer. On the other hand, my brain hasn't been so thoroughly melted in a long long time. As I understand it, the plot has something to do with a mentally ill young girl who conjures up a fevered dream world of epic fantasy as an escape from the darkness of her waking life. Lines between the dream world and reality begin to blur and insane action happens. Cool. Sounds like a fascinating, fresh, incredibly bad-ass idea for a film.

Over the weekend, The Guardian (which takes the title of best English language newspaper, sorry NYT), published a discussion between various artists and filmmakers on the Italian painter Caravaggio, and it's must read stuff. If it's been a while since your last art history course, here's what you need to know about Caravaggio: active in the late 16th century, Caravaggio was the bad boy artist to end all bad boy artists. In between getting in street brawls, dueling with swords, knifing people, and probably shacking up with various mistresses, Caravaggio managed to reinvent painting with his mix of radical naturalism and dramatic, chiaroscuro lighting. According to Marin Scorsese, David LaChapelle, Peter Doig, and others, Caravaggio was also a seminal influence on their work.