You’ve known her all your life, but you still don’t know what to get Mom for Mother’s Day. Here are three events worthy of your matriarch …

• Mom will gaze wantingly at the lean, mean bods of the Cirque du Soleil troupe, which just last night opened its KOOZA show under the big blue top at the normally decrepit and deserted corner of Broad and Washington. A good number of seats remain for tonight’s show. The rest of the weekend, it’s fairly sketchy. But doable. If you want a primer on KOOZA, check out this Q&A with Cirque’s acrobatic coach.

• And you thought your mom was pushy and fond of the guilt trip? She’s got nothin’ on Mama Rose. Mother of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, Mama Rose’s completely over-the-top stage mother shenanigans are chronicled in the fabulous musical Gypsy. Sure, you could haul Mom up to Broadway, where Patti LuPone turns in a terrific performance. But the much cheaper and more convenient option would be the version going up this weekend at the Academy of Music.

• Just in case you’re not up on the history of Klezmer music in Philadelphia, a Ukrainian fellow by the name of Joseph Hoffman was at the epicenter of it way back in the days when Klezmer was a big enough thing to have its own epicenter. Hoffman’s granddaughter, drummer Elaine Hoffman Watts, is still around, still playing Klezmer drums. And this Sunday at World Cafe Live, she teams up with her Klezmer-trumpet-playing daughter, Susan Watts (the two are pictured above), for a concert of music from a 1920s songbook that Joseph assembled. Even if you wouldn’t describe yourself as a Klezmer fan, Elaine is a hoot and her concerts with Susan are always fun and memorable, which seems to be exactly what the perfect Mother’s Day present should be.

Normally, I would tell you to get out to the Film Festival’s last weekend. But the good folks behind it have done such a bang up job that everything I’d want to see is sold out. Even the shows they added due to popular demand — sold out. So here are some other thoughts on how to spend the next couple of rainy days …

CONCERTS
Local sax veteran Bootsie Barnes joins trumpeter John Swana at Chris’ Jazz Cafe (Saturday, 8 p.m., $20; 10 p.m. $15). Carlos Santana’s Saturday show at the Borgata is sold out, but tickets are still around for tonight (7 p.m., $75.50-$125.50) — and congratulations to Rich Woods, who won the pair of tickets I gave away in this week’s Go-To Guide (if you want to sign up for the Go-To Guide to get in on ticket giveaways, go here). Frenetic Klezmer band The West Philadelphia Orchestra tears up the North Star (Saturday, 9 p.m., $12). And the not-exactly soft-spoken Saul Williams brings his poetic hip-hop to the Troc tonight (8 p.m., $15).

THEATER
Everyone seemed to love the Arden’s production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, which ends this Sunday. So it will be interesting to see what Delaware Theatre Company can do to top it, as they open the same exact show. All I can say is, good luck.

COMEDY
From Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, Rodney Laney will attempt to elicit a few laughs at Helium (Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. both nights; $20-$30). Germophobe and host of guilty pleasure Deal or No Deal Howie Mandel does his shtick at Caesars in A.C. (Saturday, 9 p.m., $40-$60). And if you, for whatever reason, think that Joy Behar is funny, the Borgata will happily accept your money (Saturday, 9 p.m., $39.50-$45).