Things we like — Dr. Noize, a.k.a. Los Altos native and Stanford graduate Cory Cullinan, is back with his third installment following the adventures of a musical monkey. The two-CD set Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony introduces kids to orchestral music, opera, music history and more, with performances by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Grammy-winning opera singers Isabel Leonard and Nathan Gunn.