Photographer and Rabbi, Both MIA, Xanax Is Indicated

ERICA: I emailed our photographer three days ago and have not heard back from her. The day before yesterday I left a message for the rabbi, and he also is MIA. So far, I’ve imagined fires, car accidents, earthquakes and plane crashes. I’ve considered possible kidnapping scenarios and have been watching the news for Read More

London, Calling, Repeatedly

Can The Transom really be homesick for somewhere it’s only been once–and back in the 80′s, at that?

In September’s Tatler, we learn of London and her people:

“The Brazilian is over and the bush is back,” says Saffron Aldridge. The history of the sugar momma goes back to Clytemnestra! LOMBARD is apparently, allegedly, acronymical Read More

I Go Ga-Ga for Synagogues! Dahling, the Décor Is Divine

Stiffen the sinews, summon the blood and, whatever you do, make sure you tart up your bunker! Yes, interior decoration is vital to your morale-especially during an Orange Alert. When government officials made those panic-inducing recommendations about duct tape and drinking water, they recklessly forgot to emphasize the importance of interior design. I think we Read More

How Not to Ride the Jitney

‘Something’s up with these lights,” I say out loud to myself

inside the Hampton Jitney, idling on 40th Street and Third Avenue at 9 p.m. on

a recent Friday. I’m reading and the type is fuzzy. What is it? Am I on drugs?

I am. My wallet’s bulging with a new bag of Thai stick, Read More

When Big-Shots Compare, Psychiatrists are Happy

Kerry Sulkowicz, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has his hands full this time of year. And it’s not just because the holidays are tough.

Dr. Sulkowicz specializes in issues of money and power, and counts among his patients many of Wall Street’s deal-makers and market players. And these bankers and traders-members of a species not exactly Read More

Got Bonus Envy?

Kerry Sulkowicz, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has his hands full this time of year. And it’s not just because the holidays are tough.

Dr. Sulkowicz specializes in issues of money and power, and counts among his patients many of Wall Street’s deal-makers and market players. And these bankers and traders-members of a species not exactly Read More

A Charismatic Hero Crashes in Cambodia

Lightning on the Sun , by Robert Bingham. Doubleday, 291 pages, $24.

Tough, edgy, messy, sexy Asher, the hero of Lightning on the Sun , might have been mine, too, if I were younger, hipper. But he belongs to Robert Bingham, who died of an overdose last November at the age of 33, five months Read More