Seattle Art Museum says that its 35-hour marathon concluding the
Louvre’s Roman art show will include gladiators, which sounds like a
recipe for lameness that could reach Renaissance faire levels. It
could be ironic-good. Or, if you’re in the market for regular-good,
there’s the promise of simply being at the museum with Augustus and
double-Elvis at 3:00 a.m.—and admission will be half
off during the wee hours. (Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave,
625-8900. Sat 10 am–Sun 9 pm, $20/$10 from 2–7 am.)

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...