The Bear Goes to Paris Paris is a delight for many travelers, even the very small and furry. Artist Witold Riedel brings us a gallery showcasing a short friend abroad in France, and translates a short interview.

Things They Don’t Tell You When You Check Yourself Into a Mental Hospital Don’t believe what the other patients say: the doctors probably won’t try to sleep with you. Chicago’s Chris Sprow brings us a guide for anyone who’s been tempted to check themselves in.

Drumroll Please A million-plus viewers will tune tonight to watch costumed young people dance with fake weapons and play bugle—and that’s just the fans already in the know. America, you live in a drum corps world, you just don’t know it yet.

My First Time With Toots and the Maytals When you’re young and in love, it’s not so easy to tell the difference between songs of love and songs of protest. One memory of passion and seriously critical misreadings.