In Place Juicy private moments are often best kept private, unless they can be used for lasting art. Toronto photographer Robyn Cumming brings us a gallery of dramatic exposure, after the curtains are pulled back.

The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: The Last Waltz Some birds, like penguins, can’t fly. Others, like the majestic bald eagle, can. It’s a sentence we never expected to write, but here it is: this is the last column in the chronicles of our favorite wannabe rock star. Gary Benchley explains why.

Darth Vader Made Me Cry From the first moment you see Darth Vader choke that rebel fighter, you know he’s evil. The helmet, the cape, the breathing? Evil, evil, evil. Matthew Baldwin remembers when he met Vader at a shopping center and learned that evil really is as evil does.

Roundtable: New Fathers For some reason not involving pods or alien harvests, a number of our writers are about to be fathers, or have recently become dads, and it seemed appropriate to convene a meeting of minds. Three Contributing Writers and friend-of-TMN Frederic Bonn discuss fears, frustrations, and why the name you’ve picked out for your kid will inevitably be mocked.