MER
May 1996
After the Dancing Ordinance
Closed mid-April 1996 · On stands late April 1996
The Front
Index of the Season
Drive-in screens still operating nationwide, the average price of a movie ticket, minor-league attendance on Opening Day, CD singles sold in the first week of a Mariah Carey release
The Foreign File
Kabul's Uneasy Calm
A stringer's dispatch on the fragile Rabbani government as Taliban forces press from the south
The City
Subject: What the club crackdown left standing on the old circuit
The Back
Spring Table
A restaurant column touring the new rooms opening this season in Chicago, New Orleans, and Charleston — what a $75 tasting menu is buying beyond the food