The Factory Closes
Closed mid-March 1995 · On stands late March 1995
The Front
Index of March
Nightclub license revocations nationwide, cabaret and noise-ordinance summonses issued since January, the going rate for a liquor license transfer in three cities — and the resale price of tickets to a boy band's suddenly sold-out arena tour
The Essay
One Hundred to One
The U.S. Sentencing Commission's Special Report recommends narrowing the 100-to-1 disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences, documenting the disparity's racial skew
The Foreign File
Chechnya, Named
A dispatch on a war the wires had not yet made routine
The Feature Well
The Season of the Subpoena
A profile of a defense bar that had grown up entirely inside the sentencing-guidelines era, told partly through the restaurant where its senior partners still close every deal over the same order
The City
Subject: The Giuliani-era cabaret-law revival and the raids that closed the Sound Factory
The Back
Books: Review of a new legal-history title on sentencing reform, paired with a note on a late-night bandleader's surprise bestselling memoir · Art: March's regional auction circuit, briefly, with a line on the price a boy-band member's stage jacket fetched at a charity sale · Film: A retrospective, house style, with a note on the spring's biggest opening-weekend gross