Hear Buddy Guy, “Skin Deep.” The reigning king of Chicago blues, Guy slashes his way through “Best Damn Fool,” upstages Eric Clapton on “Every Time I Sing the Blues” and plumbs his roots on “Out in the Woods.” A highly personal affair that suggests this is his time after a while.

Rent “The Bank Job.” This thriller stars Jason Statham and femme fatale Saffron Burrows, two ex-lovers involved in a bank heist that’s about much more than money. Very satisfying indeed.

See “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Complete with five contemporary model homes, the exhibition highlights the prefab house’s centrality in the discourse of sustainability and architectural innovation (through Oct. 20; moma.org).

Visit the Harley-Davidson Museum. Located on 20 acres in Milwaukee, the newly opened facility celebrates the cultural icon of the H-D motorcycle through exhibits, displays of vintage bikes and a life-size still-action re-creation of a 1920s board track (h-dmuseum.com).

Rent “Mon Oncle Antoine.” Often cited as the greatest Canadian film ever made, Claude Jutra’s 1971 marvel is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set at Christmastime in a snowy Quebec mining town. Criterion’s double-disc edition offers a restored, high-definition digital transfer. Not to be missed.

Surf BabyCenter, which has launched a new social-networking site for parents (community.baby center.com) that lets you share photos, blog, keep up with old pre-natal yoga buddies and meet new families with common interests.

Rent “Baby It’s You.” Twenty-three-year-old Rosanna Arquette burns up the screen in this story of a smart, ambitious Jewish girl from New Jersey and the sharkskin-wearing townie she loves. This honest, class-conscious depiction of high-school life in the late ’60s is one of John Sayles’s best, and least-known, movies—and it’s never been available on DVD before.

Hear “The Day Is Brave” by Brendan James. His compelling lyrics, soothing tenor and piano virtuosity make this debut album a stunning listen. Highlights include “Green,” a sweet musing on a former girlfriend ($13.98).

Surf pollinator.org. Due to bad environmental practices, pollinating species like bees and butterflies are being threatened. To encourage their proliferation, this Web site offers a downloadable planting guide that tells you which plants are best for encouraging a pollinator-friendly habitat.

Rent “Persepolis,” Marjane Satrapi’s funny, defiant and unique animated vision of her tumultuous coming of age in Iran—with a hilarious detour to her exile in Vienna. It’s like no animated movie you’ve ever seen.

Surf livestrong.com, a health, fitness and lifestyle Web site launched by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Demand Media Inc. Browse thousands of videos, articles and nutritional-food profiles, as well as networking with others trying to meet similar health and fitness goals.

Hear “Supreme Genius of King Khan,” by King Khan and the Shrines. Garage-rock shaman King Khan has been peddling his sweaty blend of psychopunk R&B through Europe for nearly 10 years. Now with their first stateside release, the man and his band are set to arrive on our shores—all blazing horns, churning organ and barbed-wire guitar. Yow! ($13.98)

Hear Jakob Dylan’s “Seeing Things.” With the Wallflowers on hiatus, Bob’s son steps out with his first solo album. The stripped-down guitar leaves plenty of room for lush, knowing vocals ($15.98).

Buy Physicians Formula Eye Shadow Duo. All the ingredients in these two-color sets are certified organic and made without parabens, harsh chemicals or synthetics. Better still, they’re reasonably priced and found in drugstores. And when you’re done, just toss in the recycling bin ($7.95).

Surf mozes.com, a free music-networking site that connects people to their favorite artists via cell phone. By joining a band’s “mob,” or mobile list, users can receive text-message updates on the new hit single or an upcoming concert.

Hear Emmylou Harris’s “All I Intended to Be.” This crisply sophisticated, sometimes solemnly tinged collection of originals and favorites of her fellow artists shows that Harris is still the stalwart songbird at the top of the roost ($18.98).

Rent “Heavy Metal in Baghdad.” Hipster American filmmakers Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti plunge into bullet-riddled, paranoid Baghdad to chart the fortunes of Iraq’s only heavy-metal band, Acrassicauda, who are driven into exile in Syria.

See “End Game—British Contemporary Art From the Chaney Family Collection,” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The exhibition features major works of the radical London scene, from the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s (including Damien Hirst) to today’s avant-garde (mfah.org).

Go to the Chicago Blues Festival, a four-day event in Grant Park featuring more than 90 performers, including Johnny Winter, Eddy Clearwater and Koko Taylor. The 25th-annual festival culminates in a performance by B.B. King, in his first appearance there in 20 years (June 5–8; chicagobluesfestival.us).

Read “Now the Hell Will Start.” Brendan I. Koerner tells the story of WWII’s wildest manhunt. One of many black soldiers sent to labor in the Indo-Burmese jungle, Pvt. Herman Perry is driven to despair, shoots a white lieutenant, goes on the lam and is embraced by a tribe of headhunters. Eat your heart out, Kurtz ($25.95).

Watch the “Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector’s Edition.” The set includes all five of the “Dirty Harry” films, as well as a feature-length documentary on Clint Eastwood ($55.99; amazon.com).

Rent “I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes’s playful, puzzling fantasia on the slippery myth of Bob Dylan, out Tuesday on DVD. He casts six actors, including the astonishing Cate Blanchett, to represent both real and imaginary aspects of the icon.

Hear “Les Artistes,” by Santogold, on myspace.com/ santogold. Singer Santi White offers fresh, addictive beats infused with an ’80s vibe. On an album where each track differs from the last, blending new wave with soul, Santogold is the funk “it” girl to watch. Play it once, then hit repeat.

Rent “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” Julian Schnabel’s spellbinding tale of a stroke victim’s flights of imagination is ravishing to look at, mercifully unsentimental and blissfully avoids almost every cliché of the handicapped-hero genre.

Hear “Jim.” Crooner Jamie Lidell has stripped down the electronic frenzy that marked 2005’s danceable “Multiply.” The result is a stunner of a blue-eyed British soul masterwork that evokes the organic grit, soul and warmth of your favorite Stax and Motown records—to quote Lidell himself, “a little bit of feel-good.”

Vote in the Webby People’s Voice Awards (pv.webbyawards .com). Choose winners in more than 100 categories, including blogs, retail sites, interactive ads, video and film. Results will be announced May 6.

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.

Rent “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” Two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) conspire to rob their own parents’ jewelry store in Sidney Lumet’s dark, high-octane family melodrama, in which everything that could go wrong does. It’s Lumet’s best flick in ages.

Rent “The Night of the Shooting Stars.” Set in a German-occupied Tuscan village in 1944, this 1982 Taviani brothers film is a one-of-a-kind war movie, unfolding like a folk tale passed on from generation to generation. Stirring, lyrical, savage, it’s a marvel of a movie.

Read “Before John Was a Jazz Giant.” This children’s book imagines a young John Coltrane absorbing the sounds of his environment—hambones in his grandmother’s pot, the whistle of a steam train—before he ever picked up a sax. Concise, rhythmic prose and gorgeous illustrations make this imposing legend accessible to a new generation.

Log on to seafoodwatch .org and download a pocket guide that lists the best seafood to buy to support environmentally friendly fisheries and fish farms. The guides are tailored to various U.S. regions and also recommend seafood to avoid.

Hear the B-52s’ “Funplex.” The beehives are gone, but it’s still rainbow-bright party time for the B-52s. Like a sonic shot of vitamin B12, the dance floor beats, fuzzy guitar riffs and happy, shiny lyrics keep the energy going.

Rent “Bonnie and Clyde—Ultimate Collector’s Edition,” the new, remastered two-disc edition of Arthur Penn’s watershed gangster flick. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are the legendary lovers/outlaws who come to a most spectacular end in an orgasmic hail of Texas Ranger bullets. It includes a new documentary on the making of this classic movie.

Hear “Pretty Buildings,” the new single by Welsh band People in Planes (peopleinplanes.com). This ballad, rich in melody with strong, searching lyrics, shows why this group is one to watch.