JIM JEFFERIES: Sittin on a fire escape with the best of em.
  • Jason Beaver
  • JIM JEFFERIES: Sittin' on a fire escape with the best of 'em.

Jim Jefferies—Comedian Jim Jefferies heads to Revolution Hall tomorrow night. Ahead of the show, Andrew R Tonry talked to him about surviving his show's cancellation, and what's up next. "As he is on stage, during our conversation Jefferies seems almost physically unable to share anything less than the totality of his feelings," Tonry writes of their fascinating chat.

Architecture 'n' feelings at Portland Center Stage—I saw PCS' latest, a production of Three Days of Rain featuring Grimm's Sasha Roiz and Silas Weir Mitchell. The good news is they're great! The bad news? It's got something to do with my rapidly decreasing tolerance for Zelda Fitzgerald jokes.

Neal Stephenson—Suzette Smith delved into his latest novel, Seveneves (yeah, that's a palindrome), and reports that you don't have to be out for "engineering wank" material to enjoy it. "This is Stephenson's most accessible work to date—frightening at times in its descriptions of close quarters and radiation sickness, suspenseful and heartbreaking in its characters you must learn to love and then discard," she writes.

In other art news—I got to go see Emily Squires' incredible collaboration with inmates on a prison art project at Columbia River Correctional Institution yesterday. It's the best argument for arts education in prison I've ever seen.