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