Advice Miss Manners: Empty buffet table signals it’s time to leave Published: Aug. 15, 2024, 5:00 a.m. By Judith Martin ...

Walking in, past the foyer, the restaurant opens to a room with booths and table seating. The compact space is set up for a minimalist dining to fit about 15 groups of people.

On TikTok, videos of the Baltimore book event show a huge empty room with rows of plain tables. 'I planned my pregnancy around this,' one author said.

A long dining table has stood in front of Old Union for more than a week, each of its empty chairs reserved for one of the 224 hostages kidnapped by Hamas in October — the number has since been ...