New York, NY New York photographer Geoff Badner inaugurates our new series of (semi)weekly photo galleries, with a collection of random pictures taken around the city.

Roundtable: New Fathers, Round II Twelve months ago a number of TMN contributors were becoming first-time dads—now it’s time to check in and see how they’re doing. Matthew Baldwin, Frederic Bonn, Kevin Fanning, and Kevin Guilfoile get into the poop from a year of highs, lows, and Diaper Genies.

How to Survive a Deathbed It’s not SARS, and you’re sure it’s something worse. Even though they say it’s just a cold, you’ve already resigned yourself to death’s icy grip. Tobias Seamon serves up ways to make the wait a little more worthwhile.

Kitchen Existential What does your kitchen say about you? Worse, what does it say about your relationship? Our James Beard Award-winner opens his Manhattan galley to an expert on tiny kitchens—and the domestic squabbles that can explode inside them.