Maybe you shouldn’t go, because it’s going to get crowded back
there in the back room at Cafe Presse. But if you can get up this
early, you deserve a chance to have coffee with visiting artist
Dario Robleto, who is taking over the galleries at the Frye Art
Museum this spring. It’s also your chance to see how the weekly klatch
(hosted by gallerist Scott Lawrimore) works, and whether these art
people are as pretentious as you think they are. (Cafe Presse,
1117 12th Ave, 709-7674. 7–10 am, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...