Our top picks for the week.
Rent “The Orphanage.” Prepare to be seriously spooked by this chilling Spanish ghost story, the first full-length film by director Juan Antonio Bayona. It’s the most elegantly terrifying horror movie of last year.
Surf cmch.tv. To mark Earth Day, Harvard’s Center on Media and Child Health has posted a list of agencies that will recycle or donate all your used electronics, from CDs and videogames to toner cartridges and cell-phone chargers. Now get out and enjoy some nature.
Read “Salad Makes the Meal,” by Wiley Mullins (Rodale. $17.95). Just in time for spring, this recipe book is stocked with unusual flavor combos, like watermelon, raspberries and feta cheese; and steak, tomatoes and horseradish. Great for dieters and hearty eaters alike.
Go to the Ponderosa Stomp. Sandwiched between the dates of the New Orleans Jazz Fest, this two-day music event features the “unsung heroes” of rock and roll–think Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las and Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes. April 29 and 30 at New Orleans’s House of Blues; ponderosastomp.com.
See “Bonnard and Vuillard” at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Explore the work of French postimpressionists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard through more than 40 works that include paintings, drawings, illustrated books and lithographs. April 23–Aug. 10; bma.org.