Leo the Last: Condé Nast Consort

Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his career as an über-editorial advisor at Condé Nast Publications. He died at 80 on Aug. 22, 1994. The ultimate first-nighter, he apparently never missed the opening of Read More

The Transom

Lycée Français: Are The Kids Not Alright?

The Lycée Français de New York has a glimmering new school building at 505 East 75th Street inspired by the designs of the philosopher René Descartes, but inside the 150,000-square-foot glass-and-steel structure, some parents have grown increasingly worried after a recent outbreak of unruliness among the school’s Read More