Brett Berk

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.

Lee Friedlander, one of greatest living photographers, has a new show up at the Whitney Museum in New York. Entitled “America By Car” it is a series of nearly 200 images taken all across the country. And each one is shot from–and includes in its frame–the interior of one of the myriad vehicles Friedlander drove around the U.S. during the past fifteen years. In my role as Vanity Fair‘s online car columnist, I had the opportunity to wander around the show during a press preview, writing down faux-intellectual thoughts. You can read them in my “review” here.

It’s time for another edition of Gayest of the Run, where we ask you, dear readers, to determine the faggiest version of an iconic vehicle. The most recent car to come under our queer eye? The Corvette! So head on over to the Vanity Fair website and cast your big pink vote for the most fabulous fiberglass fantasy of the past sixty years!

My Spotlight feature on Glee’s Dianna Agron (lapsed cheerleader Quinn Fabray) will be out in the October print issue of Vanity Fair, but as a special bonus, it’s available to you on the internet right now.

Click here, and don’t forget to check out the slideshow of gorgeous fashions!

The Gay Uncle, for rather obvious reasons, is rarely asked to provide input on the subject of tween testicles. But, as he has discovered again and again, there’s an exception to every rule. Yesterday, he received an offer to weigh in on this weighty subject–particularly as it relates to AXE Body Spray’s new campaign. His general take? Humor, good; Ball spray, bad. But this misses the delightfully scented (and subtle) complexities. Check out the full answer, and view the funny video, over at the truuconfessions site.

Gunc up your weekend with the G.U.’s takedown of a dad who quashed his son’s desire to dress as Snow White for Halloween (and then wrote about it over at Salon.) It’s right over there at Momlogic, and thus just a quick click away.

My mother taught me three things: Accessorize. Accessorize. Accessorize!

What does this mean, automotively speaking? Well, I’ve just finished test driving a trio of new cars from Infiniti, Honda, and smart, and this steaming hot new piece just out at the Vanity Fair website will explain it all.

Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk is a real book written by a fake organization–The Association for the Betterment of Sex–the membership of which consists of current and former writers for The Daily Show, Conan O’Brien, The Onion, and Vanity Fair.

In celebration of it’s publication today, I talk to a couple of the authors for a piece over at the Vanity Fair website. Check it out.

Ralph Lauren has found a new way of marketing to kids and families, and it’s gorgeously grotesque. It’s an online, animated children’s book featuring a toddling cast of adorable multicultural munchkins. (Not real munchkins, of course. Young children.) You will not believe their outfits, or the reprehensible/irresistible way in which they’re presented.

To read the Gay Uncle’s take on all of this, click on over to his MOMLOGIC column, right here.

My friend Jamie Kitman is a true renaissance man. In addition to being a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, a practicing lawyer, the author of a book (in progress) on the history of lead in gasoline, and the manager of bands like OK Go and They Might Be Giants, he is also the owner of one of the greatest collections of slick, drivable, desirable, mid-century British and Italian vehicles in the Northeastern U.S., if not the world. In order to keep all this metal in tip-top shape, he had an amazing mechanic who worked on his cars. Unfortunately, this old-school wrencher, Domenick Spadaro, passed away last year. Fortunately, a memorial road rally was held in his honor the other week. Even more fortunately, I was invited to attend, in some of Jamie’s cars.

Read the story of it the ensuing hilarity right here, in my online car column for Vanity Fair.