A Magazine Arrives From the Future Tense
Closed mid-February 1993 · On stands late February 1993
The Front
Third Owner in Three Years
The Daily News is sold out of bankruptcy to Mortimer Zuckerman and Fred Drasner
Field Notes: The Bracket Pool
An office-by-office tally of Super Bowl squares, no scores printed
The Essay
The Magazine That Reads Like Static
A new San Francisco monthly arrives arguing that print itself is about to change shape; read here as provocation, not prophecy
The Foreign File
Two Flags, One Border Post
A short dispatch on the new Czech and Slovak republics, six weeks into separate currencies and separate customs houses
The Feature Well
The Understudy's Season
A profile of a longtime regional-theater standby at a Minneapolis repertory house, on the night the lead finally calls in sick
The City
Subject: A furniture piece on the last of the city's manual elevator operators
The Back
After the Coin Toss
A new Baltimore homicide drama premieres in the slot after the Super Bowl
The Collection That Cost Him the Prize
A young designer's flannel-and-thermal collection for Perry Ellis wins him the industry's top honor and, soon after, his job
The Season's Borrowed Blazer
A Back-section note on menswear tailoring turning up in the women's departments, a season ahead of the trend pieces