The 1 thing
Globe writers on the one thing you must do, see, or hear this week
THE 1 SOON-TO-BE-MOTHBALLED TUX
The Harvard Art Museum's Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums are scheduled to close after June 30 for extensive renovations. Some of their best pieces will be exhibited at Harvard's Sackler Art Museum, but they don't go up until September. So there's just two weeks to see 20th-century art's most dazzling piece of male formal wear before it's gone for the summer. Max Beckmann's "Self-Portrait in Tuxedo," the prize in the Busch-Reisinger collection, is a marvel of simplicity and bravura: suave, assertive, prideful, almost impossibly assured. A tux, they say, never goes out of style. Neither does Beckmann's painting. - MARK FEENEY
THE 1 TUDOR GUILTY PLEASURE
"The Other Boleyn Girl" just hit DVD, so settle in for the campfest of the year (to date). The only way to process this overripe historical soap opera is as a drinking game: take a snort of grog whenever Henry VIII (Eric Bana?) switches his affections from mouseburger Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) to her tempestuous sister Anne (Natalie Portman). Swig deep whenever Portman stamps her foot in a fit of Big Acting. Sample the honeyed mead whenever there's a shot of someone riding passionately across the moors. Actually, don't - you'll be out by the third scene. - TY BURR
THE 1 SITE FOR NOSTALGIC MIXMASTERS
For anyone who has ever slaved over selecting and sequencing the perfect songs to present a new, potential, or ex-lover as a substitute for all you couldn't say, Cassettefrommyex.com is like Mixtapers Anonymous. It's a safe haven to share - and actually listen to - those musical memories. Each tape is accompanied by the often comic tale of the relationship that inspired it, and sometimes even the original artwork. Check out "Scissors and Snare Drums" which audaciously mixes up the Supremes, AC/DC (left), and Erik Satie. - SARAH RODMAN
THE 1 WEEKEND RADIO COMMITMENT
Do yourself a favor on Saturday morning and listen to "Highway 61 Revisited" on WUMB (91.9 FM). Nothing but great music from the early to mid-'60s. Rich servings of Bob Dylan, early Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Phil Ochs (left), early Beatles. It goes on and on, from 8 a.m. to noon. - SAM ALLIS
THE 1 UNHERALDED MUSIC GURU
His record-store-managing character in "High Fidelity" was supposedly a work of fiction, but is there another actor who understands music better than John Cusack? He dropped the Jam and English Beat into "Grosse Pointe Blank" and geeked out with Stereolab in "High Fidelity." Now take a listen to "War, Inc.," the movie satire that features, among others, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Wilco and Billy Bragg, and Ray Davies. A soundtrack's not yet available, but that shouldn't stop you from iTuning it yourself. - GEOFF EDGERS
THE 1 REASON TO WISH YOU KNEW GERMAN
In Deutschland, Charlotte Roche's novel, "Feuchtgebiete" - about 18-year-old Helen and her girl-grooming mishap - has been all anyone can talk about. And unlike literary controversies here, a lot of the appalled have actually read the book, whose misleadingly polite translation is "Wetlands." It's been favorably compared to "Catcher in the Rye" and "The Female Eunuch." But, really, Helen's self-exploration is one John Mayer might dig: She discovers that her body is a wonderland. - WESLEY MORRIS
