First night: the boy wakes up screaming · Cake without milk: mixing with a paint roller · Manet’s nightlife: fun and loneliness · Aquarius season and Mercury retrograde · Leave or stay: wages and a story from Germany · Why “restaurant” means “to restore strength” · After-lunch cigarette—and what women couldn’t do · US Food: Dyes, Marketing, and 'Parrots' · They demand an African dish