Arts & Entertainment

Anyone Can Be Conned: Three Ways to Stop the Tinder Swindler

First time on a private jet. Cream leather seats, walnut veneer, the finest champagne: all oozing luxury and status.  Her host was slim, good looking and impeccably dressed; CEO of a diamond company; and, as his two hundred thousand Instagram…

The Reality of Television Advertising

It’s harder than ever for advertisers to reach consumers through TV commercials, now that traditional ads can be skipped or muted with one click of the remote and ad-free streaming is becoming the norm. As a result, spending on conventional…

Intimacy and Agency Take Center Stage in Modern Theatre

In our new pandemic-tinged reality, there’s dual trends in the performing arts that at first glance seem counterintuitive: immersive shows and virtual reality performances. While neither are yet fully mainstream, they are both undeniably on an upward trend, with immersive…

Yippee-Ki Yay or Nay: What Makes a Christmas Movie

As an actor, you sometimes notice your career moving in certain patterns. I started out  playing a lot of roles where I died (I clearly make a convincing corpse). I then went on to do  a round of medical dramas,…

Football, please stop bleeding me dry

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” It was legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly who said that. To so many in this country and around the world,…

New York Nightlife in the Wake of Covid

Being in the social gathering business over the last 20 months has been tumultuous, to say the least: the initial existential concerns, then laying off most of your employees, and now the pent-up demand we are experiencing, given humanity’s innate…