The Transom

Next Year in … Antigua? New Yorkers Flee City for Tropical Seders

We all know about L.A.’s power Seders, hosted by the likes of music mogul Guy Oseary and longtime manager Sandy Gallin. But the ones in New York City? Harder to find than the afikomen!

Stacey Bronfman, the socialite, fashion consultant and daughter-in-law of Read More

A Sluggish Richard III: Where Is Our Royal Psycho?

Richard III isn’t a complex play for us. It’s a popular melodrama about a world unhinged by a deformed, royal psychopath. Rousing, murderous stuff! But the role of the king—the “bunch-backed toad” himself—is a hell of a challenge for an actor.

Richard owns the play. Compared to his dominating contribution—and our weird complicity in his Read More

Proof Positive of Fragile Life and Love Through Higher Math

I know where I stand when it comes to the dramatically brainy subjects of nuclear physics, Fermat’s Last Theorem or-to pluck another example out of thin air-Heisenberg’s dear old Uncertainty Principle, which, as everyone surely knows by now, equals the square on the hippopotamus provided the photon of Z is greater than the particle of Read More