So your girlfriend has been bugging the crap out of you to broaden your horizons. Like any self-respecting, closet xenophobe of a man, you've resisted these advances admirably, but the time has come to get cultured — with the atomic bomb, that is. The Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan (celebrating its 125th anniversary) is running nine engagements of Doctor Atomic ($15 - $375), an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. As far as operas go, you can't really get cooler than that.