The House Reopens
Closed mid-December 1997 · On stands late December 1997
The Front
Index of the Closing Year
Numbers of the season — office parties held, the average price of holiday air travel out of the country's ten busiest airports, weeks since the market's last correction
The Essay
The Man Who Made Cooking Loud
A New Orleans chef's syndicated cable show turns the kitchen into a stage, and what the country wants from food now that it's watching rather than cooking
The Foreign File
Dublin's Second Boom
A stringer's dispatch on the Republic's new money and the pubs it hasn't reached yet
The Feature Well
The Housewares Empire
A profile of a Connecticut caterer turned syndicated-television and catalog magnate, the domestic arts remade as a national brand
The City
Subject: Forty-Second Street's new tenants, and the ones the new leases didn't renew
The Back
Theater: The Lion King opens at the rebuilt New Amsterdam Theatre · Books: A round-up of the year's serious nonfiction · Film: The year-end ten-best list, house style