8 pm: Pop Music

With six Grammys under her belt, including one this year for best rock album, Sheryl Crow is eyeing new horizons--she’ll make her film debut playing a doomed junkie in the upcoming indie “The Minus Man.” Meantime, she’s on tour in support of that Grammy-winner, “The Globe Sessions.”

* Sheryl Crow, with Eagle-Eye Cherry, Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd. 8 p.m. Through Sunday. Sold out. (323) 480-3232.

7 & 9:30 pm: Film Series

The American Cinematheque presents “Side Streets and Back Alleys: The First Annual Festival of Film Noir,” an eight-night series featuring some of the more obscure gems of the genre, including films by directors Richard Fleischer, Felix Feist, Russell Rouse and John Auer and appearances by femmes fatale of yore Ann Savage, Evelyn Keyes and Rhonda Fleming.

* “Side Streets and Back Alleys: The First Annual Festival of Film Noir,” Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Friday: “The Narrow Margin,” 7 p.m.; “Armored Car Robbery” and “Violent Saturday,” 9:30 p.m. Saturday: “The Killer That Stalked New York,” 7 p.m.; “99 River Street” and “Kansas City Confidential,” 9:30 p.m. Tuesday: “Born to Kill,” 7 p.m.; “Brute Force” and “Thieves’ Highway,” 9:30 p.m. Wednesday: “Detour,” 7 p.m.; “The Devil Thumbs a Ride,” “The Threat” and “Tomorrow Is Another Day,” 9:30 p.m. April 10: “The Killer Is Loose,” 7 p.m.; “Wicked Woman” and “The Thief,” 9:30 p.m. April 11: “Nightmare Alley,” 5 p.m.; “The City That Never Sleeps” and “Hell’s Half Acre,” 7:45 p.m. April 14: “Tension,” 7 p.m.; “Try and Get Me” and “The Underworld Story,” 9:30 p.m. April 15: “Desert Fury,” 7 p.m.; “Murder by Contract” and “The Sniper,” 9:30 p.m. $5 to $7. (323) 466-FILM, Ext. 2.

8:15 pm: Pop Music

“Why Don’t You Get a Job,” a catchy dig at deadbeats, is the latest high-profile hit from the Offspring’s “Americana,” one of the biggest-selling rock albums of the past year. The Orange County quartet celebrates with a brace of close-to-home concerts.

* The Offspring, with the Living End and D Generation, Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City. 8:15 p.m. Also Saturday. Both shows sold out. (818) 622-4440.

all day: Movies

In “The Out-of-Towners,” Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn play a middle-class couple from Ohio whose short visit to New York becomes a comedy of errors, taking the duo from Times Square to Greenwich Village to the Fulton Fish Market and everywhere in between. Sam Weisman (“George of the Jungle” and TV’s “Moonlighting”) directs this second film adaptation of the Neil Simon play. Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis starred in the 1970 version for director Arthur Hiller.

* The latest “The Out-of-Towners,” which is rated PG-13, opens Friday in general release. The 1970 version, which is rated G, is available in video stores.

8 pm: Theater

Canadian playwright Jason Sherman’s “Three in the Back, Two in the Head” makes its West Coast premiere. The award-winning 1994 political thriller about a man who suspects CIA involvement in the execution of his scientist father was inspired by the true story of a Canadian weapons scientist’s murder.

* “Three in the Back, Two in the Head,” West Coast Ensemble, 522 N. La Brea Ave. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends May 23. $20; Friday opening, $25. (323) 525-0022.

8 pm: Theater

Remember Nick Danger? Bozos on the Bus? America’s Monty Python, the Firesign Theatre, launches a national tour with its new show, “Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death,” irreverent comedy from the group’s recent Grammy-nominated album performed by original members Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Phil Proctor.

* “Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death,” Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. $25 to $50. (805) 963-0761.

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FREEBIES:

Young virtuoso clarinetist Jin-Woo Park and pianist Seokyung Chiang play at the Gold Room, Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. 7 p.m. (213) 383-2600.

Drummer Peter Erskine’s ultra-hip Lounge Art Ensemble appears at LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., 5:30 p.m. (323) 857-6000.