JUNE THE CULTURAL DIVIDE

Following in the footsteps of photography giant Ansel Adams, Jim McHugh tackles the storied medium of Polaroid with support from the fading brand in his exhibition "On the Sunny Side of the Street: Polaroid Images from Los Angeles." (ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood, 6/1-7/15.)

FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY

■ West Hollywood's mile-long row of high-end fashion boutiques, design showrooms, art galleries, and restaurants band together on June 3 for the ninth annual Art & Design Walk, a swanky event that benefits the Help Group, a nonprofit organization for children with special needs. (avenuesartdesign.com.)

■ Beachside screenings, sandcastle contests, and bikini bodies bring paradise to the movies at the Maui Film Festival, June 14 to 18. (mauifilmfestival.com.)

■ The seventh annual Love Heals event, sponsored by the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education, invites merry philanthropists for BBQ, cocktails, dancing, and a silent auction at Luna Farm, in Sagaponack, New York, on June 24. (Loveheals.org.)

TAKE NOTE

DANCING & ROMANCING

■ Eric McCormack stars in Neil LaBute's new play, Some Girl(s), as a former man-about-town who rendezvouses with a few old flames— played by Fran Drescher and Maura Tierney—before walking down the aisle. (Opens June 8 at the Lucille Lorfel Theatre, in N.Y.C.)

■ Curtis Sittenfeld, author of the best-seller Prep, has graduated from dormroom romance to more mature musings in her latest

novel, The Man of My Dreams (Random House). Heroine Hannah Gavener

hood fantasies with the adult realities of marriage, a quest that proves desperate, if not predestined.

LIGHT, ART, AND MOVEMENT

Sketches of Frank Gehry, the Sydney Pollack-directed documentary, admires the mind and building process of the master architect—from abstract drawings to three-dimensional models, to finished buildings of titanium and glass, concrete and steel, wood and stone. Footage includes interviews with Dennis Hopper, Julian Schnabel, and Philip Johnson and Gehry at work and in conversation at his studio, on building sites, and in his home. (Sony Pictures Classics, in theaters now.)

SEASIDE THEATER

This summer, the in Sag Harbor, New York, celebrates its 15th season with the classic rock musical The Who's Tommy, by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff;Quartet by Ronald Harwood; the world premiere of Viva la Vida!, by Diane Shaffer (with Mercedes Ruehl as Frida Kahlo); and the whimsical Darwin in Malibu, by Crispin Whittell. Bay Street founders Emma Walton, Stephen Hamilton, and Sybil Christopher have created a mini Broadway in the Hamptons—complete with writing workshops, a comedy club, and a fantastic children's-theater program, KidStreet. It's the perfect way to spend a balmy summer evening, (baystreet.org.)