*COMEDY/THEATER: Rejoice, mama's boys of San Francisco. According to SF Weekly, "Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan traveled around the U.S. for five years, interviewing over 50 Jewish women of different ages, ethnicities, and occupations," resulting in the Drama Desk Award-nominated comedy hit, . For those of you who have yet to cut the cord, this show is for you. (Runs until March 23.)

7 p.m. // Marines Memorial Theater [609 Sutter] // $29-$75

FILM: Ryan O’Neal stars in The Driver (1978) tonight. This stylized '70s-era film noir. The real reason to check out this film is to see the formidable Isabelle Adjani and Ronee Blakely (Nashville) together in Walter Hill's minor but entertaining cinema classic.

7 p.m. // Castro Theatre [Castro & Market] // $29-$75

MUSIC: (Very attractive) Afro-Cuban jazz guitarist Gonzalo Rubalcaba takes stale jazz tunes and miraculously makes them sound ultra-fresh again -- a feat that's almost impossible to do with the notoriously dated jazz genre. Catch him tonight and/or tomorrow night over in the Fillmore district.

8 p.m. & 10 p.m. // Yoshi's SF [609 Sutter] // $20, $24

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Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, founders and hosts of the Found Footage Festival, which sold out four shows at the Red Vic last month. Dirty Country, which won the Audience Award at this year's South By Southwest, is part of Yerba Buena's Red State Cinema: Rural Auteurs series.

We just screened the 70-minute flick today, and we were happy to discover that the documentary's main character, Larry Pierce (NSFW), lives just about an hour or so away from our home town, Indianapolis. (We hope he might be performing in the area when we're home for Christmas.) Pierce is a very endearing small-town, family man who loves performing his bawdy tunes for friends in his garage, while selling his tapes and CDs at truck stops and local record stores.

During the filming, Pierce was forced into early retirement after 30 years at his company, and his future seemed pretty bleak. But it turns out that in addition to being a favorite among truckers, Pierce has been considered a cult-classic among his peers. He now tours with bawdy-rock band -Itis and was featured on Howard Stern in January (he'll also be back on again next Wednesday, Nov. 14), and according to his MySpace page (NSFW), his next gig will be in New York City this month. Right on, Larry!

In Dirty Country, you'll also meet other awesome bawdy performers: Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts (the original party band), John Valby (our personal fave), and Blowfly, aka Clarence Reed, who's been providing quality dirty rap since 1960 (ok, they're all our faves).

Pictured above is Larry Pierce at the Nashville Film Festival. Check out the trailer! (NSFW)

Dirty Country | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | 701 Mission St, SF | Sneak Preview Friday, November 9 at 7 and 9 p.m. | Call for ticket availability: (415) 978-ARTS (2787)

Best show you've ever played and what made it great?
Our last gig in Paris at La Maroquinerie in April 2007. The place was packed with 400 fans who knew all the words and clapped and danced and yelled out to us and made us feel incredibly good. We played really well with in our fancy embroidered suits and we came off stage sweaty as barnyard pigs.

Best venue in the world?
I hate to be such a Francophile, but la Cigale in Paris. It's a huge, old, red-velvet theater and truly a lovely place to share and experience live music.

Best fans in the world?
The best fan we've met so far is a young girl from Houston named Gelli. We just met her last week. She wore our band t-shirt at the show, danced in the front row the whole time, beamed bright smiles at us, and gave us hope for the future of the human race.

What's your favorite song to perform?
Right now it's 'Saltbreakers'. I love it when the guys come in -- who doesn't love a rousing chorus of bearded men? Also, I crank the reverb on the amp and dance around with my guitar.

Favorite collaborators?
My bandmates -- Tucker Martine, Karl Blau and Steve Moore. also the wonderful world-class violist Eyvind Kang. and the Cedar Hill Baptist choir from Nashville that sang on 'To the Country' from the new record.

Lamest Crowd Request ever
When we played to two people in Dallas a few years back and both were from our record label. It's not that the label people were lame -- they were really nice -- but that was certainly the lamest attendance ever.

Laura Veirs & The Saltbreakers
June 5 @ Café Du Nord
Openers: Lake, Ryan Auffenberg
Doors: 8pm
21+

Series Backstory
The hockey commentariat all think the Sharks-Wings series is going to be a good one, and most think the Sharks will win in 6 or 7 games. The Wings are dealing with injuries to Tomas Holmstrom, their tough, net-crashing shot-tipper, and D-man Frank Lebda, who was sucker- punched by Daymond Langkow in round 1, and is suffering from post- concussion symptoms. The Sharks are, miraculously, injury-free right now, although Jonathan Cheechoo isn't 100% after the knee-injury from Game 1 of the Nashville series.

By Ian, contributing

The Sharks dispatched the Mustard Men in 5 games, which makes the series seem a lot less close than it was. 3 of the games were decided by one goal, with Game 1 in double overtime. Even Game 2, the Predators 5-2 win, was not decided until late in the 3rd period. Nashville's undisciplined play (they led all playoff teams with almost 30 minutes of penalties per game) was their undoing, even though the Sharks power play was more or less ineffective, and often frankly ugly to watch. But it was one more way to wear down the Nashville defenders, and keep their skill players on the bench. Patrick Marleau again scored some big goals, and Joe Thornton took the first step toward erasing his playoff-choker reputation with dominating play and 6 points in the series.

Nashville wasn't the only team to distinguish itself with dirty play in this year's playoffs. The Calgary Flames managed to steal the spotlight by having their backup goalie come in to play lumberjack to the Detroit Red Wings Johan Franzen's, umm, old growth redwood late in Game 5 of their series (Franzen, fittingly, scored the series winner in Game 6). Then the Flames' Jarome Iginla and Daymond Langkow got in the act late in the game (cross-checking plus slashing and sucker-punching, respectively). Classy. Brad May of the Anaheim Ducks got a 3 game suspension for sucker-punching the back of Minnesota Wild defenseman Kim Johnsson (who is both emphatically not a pugilist, and happened to be Minnesota's best D man), which then caused a multi-player dust-up between the Ducks and Wild during the *pre-game skate* of Game 5 in their series.

By Ian, contributing

The Predators had a quietly outstanding season this year, going 51-23-8 for 108 points, despite playing to sparse crowds at home, and wearing Grey Poupon-colored uniforms. Their trade-deadline deal for Peter Forsberg added yet another scoring forward to a line-up that includes Paul Kariya, diminutive speedster Scott Sullivan, J.P. Dumont, David Legwand, and Martin Erat. Their D is mobile and skilled, led by the hilariously named Kimmo Timonen (just say it out loud without smiling, we dare you), Marek Zidlicky (ditto), and Shea Webber (2 out of 3 ain't bad).
In goal, Tomas Vokoun had another excellent year, and his "backup", Chris Mason, is their 2nd
goalie in the same way that Vesa Toskala is the Sharks' backup.

By Ian, contributing

We're going to talk about something we rarely talk about-- hockey. Why? Because the San Jose Sharks are now up 2-0 against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs, after winning last night 2-1. The Sharks, who have won six playoff games in a row, won on a game winning goal by MVP candidate Joe Thorton (check out the great video of it from a fan in the stands). Then there's how they did it, winning last night's game despite, incredibly, being down two players in a 5-3 matchup, only to have two of those players lose their sticks, and still-- somehow, inexplicably-- kept the Oilers from scoring for over a minute. That's studly. Even better is the fact that in describing the whole thing, Sharks coach Ron Wilson referenced the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. How can you not give some props to a Monty Python quoting coach?

There was a time when we were actually pretty into hockey, a left over effect of having grown up in Flyers-mad Philadelphia. But somewhere along the line, right around the point we started seeing highlights of a Columbus/Nashville game, we stopped really caring that much. We would, however, get a little interested again around playoff hockey because playoff hockey is a whole other beast entirely, hockey at it's purest and with an intensity that ranks right up there with the Big Three sports, (check out this YouTube video of the Sharks' entrance in Game 4 of the series against the Predators to check out the intensity-- it's right out of a rock conert, a Ronnie James Dio rock concert). Actually, one could even say that playoff hockey has even more intensity than the other sports. In hockey, for instance, a star player would never quit trying half-way through a 7th game to sulk because they know that they will probably be pummeled to death their teammates.

This season, we started to pay mild attention to the Sharks only to see them spend most of the season in a funk, mired in the bottom end of their division. But then they traded for Joe Thorton in one of the best trades the Bay Area has ever seen and the team took off, finishing off as the hottest team in the NHL. So now we're back into it, following along with the team and even checking them out on TV (that is if we could find the OLN network). We're even more into it because this series has been a real humdinger and because the Shark's are winning the way hockey is supposed to be played, old time hockey-like, with much hitting and checking and do-or-die intensity.

In other words, Go Sharks.

Sure it's no secret, but it's no American Idol either. The women's game has been nipping at the heels of the cultural consciousness for about ten years now, but hasn't quite grabbed the meaty flesh of its full attention.

This gives the women's tourney something the men's tournament doesn't have -- potential. As yet undiscovered by mainstream America, the women's tournament has scalability, while the men's tourney has been doomed to shark jumpage ever since ESPN lost the contract to broadcast the opening rounds back in the 90s.

The 25th annual women's tournament tips off Saturday with games in Chicago, Denver, Nashville, and Tucson.