The Last Tour
Closed mid-September 1995 · On stands late September 1995
The Front
Index of September
Grateful Dead tour dates played since 1965, network mergers announced this summer, broadcast licenses affected by fin-syn's expiry — and the price a single ticket to the tour's final shows was fetching on the resale market by August
The Essay
What Fin-Syn Held Together
A house essay on the financial-interest and syndication rules and the networks built underneath them, and the fortunes a handful of independent producers made in the gap before the rules changed
The Foreign File
The Wall, Six Years On
Furniture, a retrospective glance filed without urgency
The Feature Well
The Summer of Mergers
The network-merger wave — Disney/Capital Cities-ABC, Westinghouse/CBS, fin-syn's expiry, Time Warner/Turner — reported as one business story
The City
Subject: A September gallery-season roundup, briefly
The Back
Books: Review of a new music-industry biography · Art: September's regional auction circuit, briefly · Film: Jerry Garcia dies, and the Grateful Dead's thirty-year touring run ends with him