The Table on Hudson Street
Closed mid-April 1994 · On stands late April 1994
The Front
The Reversal
Snoop Doggy Dogg wears Tommy Hilfiger on Saturday Night Live, and the label's marketing direction reverses on the strength of one broadcast
The Meridian Index
April's small numbers — the going rate for a sample-sale ticket, the number of new restaurant openings in a mid-sized boomtown since January, tax-refund spending at the outlet malls
The Essay
The Decade the Joke Ran Out
What it costs a satirical press to keep sustaining a bit once its targets stop cooperating with it
The Foreign File
The Vote After the War
A dispatch filed ahead of the country's first universal-suffrage election
The Feature Well
The Kitchen Behind the Counter
A profile of a downtown kitchen adjusting its prep to an American clientele's expectations, without naming any single restaurant as the subject beyond what's already public
The City
Subject: Nobu opens on Hudson Street
The Back
The Last Laugh
Spy stops publishing
A Notice on the Spring Auctions
A notice on the spring auction previews making the rounds of the regional preview circuit