His English may be slightly fuzzy, but Christoph Thun-Hohenstein's mission is crystal clear: to make the Austrian Cultural Forum as provocative on the inside as its startling new East 52nd Street home is from the outside.

On January 20, Bill Clinton will do something he's wanted to do all his life. He'll become a New Yorker. Who says there are no second acts in America?

Living quietly among us in Westchester, the Swedish director Lasse Hallström has made peace with what Ingmar Bergman once called "the meat grinder" of Hollywood. After two straight years of Oscar nominations and with similar hopes for his new film, The Shipping News, Hallström is finally where he wants to be.

Wait a minute! Al D'Amato lost the election, but now he's got more money, more babes, and more clout than ever? Life really is unfair.

It's the summer of white-collar crime. But if the latest miscreants think a spell in jail means catching up on the classics and refining their backhand, they should think again. Club Fed is dead, and hard time is harder than ever.

With so much to be anxious about, it's no wonder the city never sleeps.

In 1973, Jason Robards played James Tyrone in A Moon for the Misbegotten, reviving both the star and Broadway. Can this monster of a role do the same for Gabriel Byrne?

With his bedroom eyes and untraceable accent, Gerard Senehi is perhaps the city's most alluring mentalist, and his act—bending wineglasses, making cigarettes float—makes even jaded New Yorkers jump. Is he really psychic, or is it just magic? You be the judge.

String theory is the hottest development in physics since Stephen Hawking first peered into a black hole -- and Columbia physicist Brian Greene is one of the few people who can explain it. He also acts in Pinter plays and packs lecture halls, and his new book, "The Elegant Universe," is getting rapturous advance reviews. Has "the Theory of Everything" finally found the spokesman it deserves?