Brett Berk

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Monthly Archive: September 2010

Wednesday

29

September 2010

Thursday

23

September 2010

Stick Shift Learns to Drive (w/Video!)

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The folks at BMW were foolish nice enough to invite me down to South Carolina to learn how to really drive a car–on a track, at their Performance Driving School. They were also uncaring enough about their possessions kind enough to let me borrow one of their zipy Z4 s35i Roadsters to drive down there from New York. I was smart enough to learn something from the experience. But don’t think that doesn’t mean I didn’t spin around in circles a million times on a wet skid-pad, because I did. Read all about it in my big gay car column over at Vanity Fair.

Wednesday

22

September 2010

Time Out, New York

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I have a pair of inter-related pieces out in Time Out New York today about my favorite of favorite New York neighborhoods (and my home of fifteen years.) One is on The East Village and the other is on The Lower East Side, and both contain suggestions and recommendations from long-term residents, fixtures, and characters on the moods, communities, and places that make their neighborhood unique. Click the neighborhood names above to read.

Wednesday

22

September 2010

The Gay Guide to Glee Returns!

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The second season of Glee premiered last night. Which means, of course, that my…unique perspective on the show will now resume haunting the virtual halls of Vanity Fair every Wednesday. The fall’s first Gay Guide to Glee is now officially up. So click on over to VF.com and read about how the show got its groove back.

Tuesday

21

September 2010

Tony Kushner/GMHC@NYPL

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The New York Public Library’s flagship branch (the one with the big lions outside of it) on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street will be hosting a special one-day only event on Wednesday, September 22. Celebrating the opening of their recently acquired (and cataloged!) archives of the health and social service organization Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the show will consist of six vitrines full of ephemera–pamphlets, comics, posters, videos–from GMHC’s early years combating the AIDS crisis. The show is open all day, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) will give a keynote speech in the evening. For details, and indelible images from the collection, check out my piece over at Vanity Fair.

Tuesday

21

September 2010

Chord Overstreet Playing Gay?

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Chord Overstreet plays transfer student Sam Evans on the new season of Glee, and he brings a full quadruple-threat of talent to the role: singing, songwriting, acting…and abs. (He’s also rumored to play Chris Colfer’s [Kurt's] gay boyfriend on the show.) In my role as Vanity Fair‘s resident Gleek, I gave Chord a call and asked him about guilty pleasures, kissing boys, and his athletic build. Check it out here.

Monday

20

September 2010

Wednesday

15

September 2010

Friday

10

September 2010

Ask, Tell? Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Or Just Be Gay and Get on with the Killing?

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A Federal judge in California found the military’s inscrutable and insupportable Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy to be unconstitutional on a number of grounds. What does this mean for the Military Wedding Industry? Find out in my spot-on analysis of the decision for the Vanity Fair website by clicking this pretty blue bit. (BONUS NOTE: The VF.com piece contains a bigger version of this photo of soldiers spelling “DICK” with their bodies.)

Thursday

9

September 2010

Wheels of Fortune

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Printus, the Greek god of magazines, has smiled on me once again. This time, he’s granted me the opportunity to publish a full page piece on the new vehicles from Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the most recent issue of Vanity Fair. Is it some sort of foreboding hubric message that Lindsay Lohan appears on the cover? Maybe. Are you too cheap to spend $4.95 on purchasing the dead tree version of VF? Probably. In either case, you can view the article by clicking the little thumbnail below.

Once again, I apologize for the lame quality of my technical skills.