Can't Miss It: Thursday

DESIGN: Attention parents! Before you pony up the dough to send your little Da Vinci to Cornish, drop in at the Design Faculty Exhibition and see what the faculty at the Design department (Susan Boye, Jeff Brice, Tiffany Laine De Mott, Jon Gierlich, Jacob Kohn, Claudia Meyer-Newman, Julie Myers, Ellen Forney, Julie Gaskill, Hovie Hawk, BeAnne Hull, Marisa Mangum, Dan Shafer, Hal Tangen, Daniel Thornton, and Junichi Tsuneoka) can do. It's due diligence, people, and worth it for no other reason than because Ellen Forney's name is in the middle of that list.

12-5 p.m. // Cornish Main Gallery, 1000 Lenora Street // FREE

ROCK: X-Ray Press kicks off their spring tour with their first and last Seattle show for quite awhile, playing with good friends Bullet Club and The Slowdown. Previously we described the X-Rayers thusly: "Jumping between jerky time signatures, with a jagged, frequently dissonant guitar opposite thundering bass-lines and fuzzy keyboard melodies, X-Ray Press got down old-skool Don Cab-style."

Andre Watts

WATTS: Pianist Andre Watts is at Benaroya Hall, throwing down some Grieg Piano Concerto in A and Bruckner's Symphony No. 3. We could listen to Watts play the phone book. We're told that the Grieg captures "the fjords, mountains and sea in Norway," so, you know, expect a heavy Ballard presence.

7:30 p.m. // Benaroya Hall, 300 University Street // Tickets: $17-$97