The Meridian Archive
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September 1994
Two Marches, One Anniversary

Two Marches, One Anniversary

Closed mid-August 1994 · On stands late August 1994

The Front

The Tent Nobody Expected

A short Front-section item on the 1994 Lollapalooza lineup and its new spoken-word tent, filed as a touring-festival business trend rather than a poetry feature

The Meridian Index

August's small numbers — lakefront rental rates by the week, the going rate for a Lollapalooza lawn ticket versus a reserved seat, interstate traffic against July

The Essay

The Anniversary and the Argument

What a movement's twenty-fifth anniversary asks of the generation that didn't live the original night

The Foreign File

The Harvest After the Rains

A dispatch on the first attempts at accounting, filed after the fighting's worst weeks

The Feature Well

Twenty-Five Years, Two Marches

Stonewall 25: two marches mark the uprising's twenty-fifth anniversary

The City

The Willful Blindness, Continued

The Mollen Commission report is released, naming the anti-corruption apparatus's own culture of willful blindness

The New Table on Twentieth

Danny Meyer and Tom Colicchio open Gramercy Tavern

The Back

Books: A review of the summer's gay-history publishing tied to the anniversary · Art: A notice on a regional museum's late-summer group show · Film: A dispatch on the festival-circuit documentaries premiering that season