Our top picks for the week

Rent “The Riches.” In this darkly comic series, Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver head a family of grifters who play house in Baton Rouge, La., assuming the identities of the titular family. Good thing the show has a humorous tone, because its theme is pretty dour: their American Dream is a big, fat lie. Then again, whose isn’t?

Buy the Eyeglass Rescue kit. Slip this small identification sleeve over the bar of your glasses and ensure that you never lose them again. Each sleeve is inscribed with an ID number that gets entered into a national database when you call a toll-free number ($15.99; eyeglassrescue.com).

Go to the Boston Celtic Music Festival. This fifth annual two-day celebration of traditional Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton music and dance features some of Boston’s finest flutists and fiddlers. This year also introduces an “open stage” where amateurs can perform (Jan. 11–12; bcmfest.com).

Hear Kate Nash’s “Made of Bricks.” The new Brit on the block is 20-year-old Nash, whose sweet and snarky lyrics turn vivid stories into songs. Listen to “Foundations,” which is breezy yet balanced with enough depth to keep it real ($9.98).

Surf bureauofcommunication.com. Need to send a thank-you letter? Air a grievance to a colleague? This Web site provides witty fill-in-the-blank forms that can be sent off with a simple click of the mouse.