The Bear in Helsinki The bear heads abroad again, this time to Finland, where even a groundbreaking art exhibit can’t distract him from the cans of bear meat on grocery store shelves. A gallery of photographs from our smallest correspondent.

New Ways to Lose Your Lunch Everybody barfs. But it’s an altogether different product depending on if you’re an infant or the last one standing at tequila happy hour. Armchair linguist Jenell Williams Paris ponders our culture’s lack of adequate description for reverse-digestion.

From the Ground Up Even in the face of disaster, life finds a way. But how long can we afford to flout forces beyond our control and live on unsteady ground? And what are we willing to pay? Our writer sends a dispatch from New Orleans.

The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: Getting the Band Together, Part II In his seventh dispatch for TMN, aspiring rock star Gary Benchley continues to assemble his band, though finding the perfect hot chick drummer turns out to be harder than he anticipated. That, and keeping his roommate from starting a taxidermy collection.