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THE CULTURAL DIVIDE May

May 2007
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THE CULTURAL DIVIDE May
May 2007

May THE CULTURAL DIVIDE

Night Fright

Cinespia captures the excitement of drive-in-movie date nights of the 1950s, but with a decidedly creepy twist. Classic films such as Vertigo and Harold and Maude are screened throughout the summer at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Season opens in May. (cemeteryscreenings.com)

Green Guide

Need on environmentally friendly place to take your cleaning? Have a vegan visitor? Gay Browne's Greenopk guides are a cornucopia of eco-chic, city-specific information on green ving. The San Francisco dition is due mid-April, with more to follow. (greenopio.com)

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EVERLASTING LOVE

Support organic farming by wearing Levi's Eco denimmade with all-natural processes from 100 percent organic cotton. They're identified by green stitching accents.

05 Every step counts in New York City's 10th annual Revlon Run/Walk for Women. Dollars raised go toward the research and treatment of women's cancers, (revlonrunwalk.com)

BEHIND THE LENS

One hundred images from photojournalist Harry Benson's iconic body of work are on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C. (4/27-9/3)

Sitting Pretty

Lyrical design combined with the free and jagged lines of the Jazz Age was the inspiration behind this vanity seat, created in 1928, one of many images included in Paul T. FrankI and Modem American Design (Yale), out this month.

13 The final stop on an international tour, Dan Flavin's innovative, minimalist installations, which have influenced a generation of artists, are on exhibit at LACMA. (5/13-8/12)

SOUTHERN BREEZES

Hril'P Glass'sBook of Longing and the Deca Dance, by Israel's Batsheva Dance Company, are two more than 120 performances highlighted at the popular Spoleto Festival USA—which mirrors the Italian Festival dei Due Mondi—in Charleston, South Carolina. (5/25-6/10)

01 New York's inaugural TeatroStageFest is an audacious amalgam of theater, dance, and music from all over the Spanish-speaking world (including the U.S.). Productions include an avantgarde dance-drama from Barcelona, a dysfunctional family comedy from Argentina, and a reimagined Hamlet from the 1950s and 60s. (4/30-5/13; teatrostagefest.org)