What Cooks Confess
Closed mid-February 2000 · On stands late February 2000
The Front
Index of the Deep Freeze
Heating-oil futures, the going rate for a homeowners'-association fee dispute, highway pileup counts from a Midwest ice storm
The Campaign Nobody Reports
Studio hospitality-suite budgets in the run-up to the March ceremony, Oscar-campaign advertising treated as its own trade genre with its own trade press
A Table, Held by a Machine
A handful of major-city restaurants adopting web-based reservation booking over the winter, maître d's grumbling about the new gatekeeper, covered as a straight trade story rather than a novelty
The Essay
The Primary Season's Long Middle
On the exhaustion of a primary calendar that front-loads its drama and empties its spring
The Foreign File
Grozny, After
Russian forces declare control of the Chechen capital after a months-long siege
The Back
Books: Kitchen Confidential is published · Art: A gallery retrospective of a mid-career sculptor, reviewed politely and without heat · Film: null