None of this stuff about "timeless" settings for Tosca: the story takes place in Rome over a specific, eventful weekend in June, 1800, as Napoleon's troops are invading Piedmont on Italy's northern border. more ›

There'll be more cool new artwork from Jessixa tonight, this time focusing on what the artist identifies in her official artist statment for the show as "icons from my young childhood. Those comforting images, feelings and smells of my primary school days." For some reason, reading that line triggers a depraved Seattlest hive mind flashback to that one scene in Silence of the Lambs when Hannibal Lecter bloviates to Jodie Foster about how the serial killer Buffalo Bill first began to "covet" what he saw every day. But this non sequitur flashback has nothing to do with anything, because instead of murdering and carving up fat chicks, Jessixa chose to make art instead. Good for you, Jessixa! more ›