1 Mu Performing Arts' production of "Little Shop of Horrors" should have you smiling from the opening number. Randy Reyes' portrayal of the nebbish Seymour shows off his comic chops and physical dexterity. Sara Ochs is a fragile, sweet Audrey and then blows the lid off the Ritz Theater with "Suddenly Seymour." It's a great time. www.muperformingarts.org

2 "A Song for You" may be 42 years old, but it's still humming along. Leon Russell, the song's writer, performed it during his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (with some help from a blissfully quiet John Mayer), and James Taylor and Allison Janney divvied up its vocals on a recent episode of ABC's "Mr. Sunshine." Can it next be a song for "Glee"?

3 Here in the States, Nuala O'Faolain rose to fame primarily for her 1996 memoir, "Are You Somebody?" But folks back home knew her for strong-minded, crisply written, intelligent columns in the Irish Times. Her new posthumous "A Radiant Life: The Selected Journalism of Nuala O'Faolain" gives us a chance to love and admire those columns, too -- on topics ranging from U2 to tooth decay to New York City.

4 Director Cary Fukunaga's flashback-filled screen adaptation of "Jane Eyre" does Charlotte Brontë proud. He wrings every ounce of passion, fury and pain out of the Gothic romance tale. Mia Wasikowska in the title role masters the screen actor's magic trick of transfixing our attention while seemingly doing nothing. This "Jane Eyre" is unapologetic melodrama shot through with inspiration.

5 Reading the Entertainment Weekly cover story on "Geek God" (EW's headline) Nathan Fillion reminded us how much we enjoy his current ABC series, "Castle." While EW praised his boyish charm, we're more enamored of the women in his life who keep him charmingly befuddled. Susan Sullivan plays his mom, Molly Quinn his teenage daughter and Stana Katic a detective who is his investigating partner. Although the writing could be sharper, the "Moonlighting"-evoking sexual tension between Fillion's and Katic's characters is endlessly charming.