Gays and dolls Gays and dolls

La Cieca invites you, the cher public (pictured) to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

Living loge Living loge

Time to walk around a bit and discuss this week’s off-topic and general interest subjects, cher public.

Spring forward Spring forward

Get started an hour earlier (or later?) with your discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects, cher public.

No, No, Lorgnette No, No, Lorgnette

Take a break from your scheming, cher public, to participate in this week’s off-topic and general interest discussion.

“Where are my marrons glacés?” “Where are my marrons glacés?”

Take a break from eating sweets, cher public, to participate in this week’s discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Zips up the back and no bones Zips up the back and no bones

La Cieca invites the cher public (pictured) to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

Intermission feature Intermission feature

Here’s your chance to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects and maybe make time for a waltz or two, cher public.

World of song conquered World of song conquered

La Cieca invites the cher public to take a brief respite from the performance of La Alexander to enjoy this week’s discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

The wrong box The wrong box

Take a breather, cher public, and join in the general interest and off-topic conversation in this week’s intermission feature.

Moi, je m’appelle Raisinette Moi, je m’appelle Raisinette

Another Sunday, another invitation to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

The chat with nine lives The chat with nine lives

Thanks for your feedback, cher public. La Cieca has implemented the new chat software with your suggestions at La Casa della Cieca.

Hot ticket Hot ticket

La Cieca invites the cher public (all of you!) to engage in the weekly ritual of discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Forever plaid Forever plaid

It’s the week of Maria Stuarda, cher public, sure to be near the foreground in our latest discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Décolletage Décolletage

Feel free to bare more than just your shoulders, cher public, as you discuss this week’s off-topic and general interest subjects.

The wanton doyenne The wanton doyenne

La Cieca invites all of you to spend this intermission in a constructive way: not rioting for Italian independence, but discussing off-topic and general interest subjects, as people do.

“Say that La Cieca leaves her loge in disgust at the travesty they call Art in this opera house!” “Say that La Cieca leaves her loge in disgust at the travesty they call Art in this opera house!”

Actually, Lohengrin at La Scala wasn’t all that bad, so the reports go.

Limited visibility Limited visibility

La Cieca invites her cher public to open their eyes and ears for this week’s discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

The V.I.P.s The V.I.P.s

Your doyenne La Cieca (not pictured) invites you to our weekly discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Shocking! Shocking!

Where does the time go?

Balance of tiara Balance of tiara

Gather around, cher public (pictured), to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects in this weeks’ Intermission Feature.

The long dark intermission feature of the soul The long dark intermission feature of the soul

As we fall back to standard time, La Cieca invites to to while away all those hours of darkness with discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

To chat and chat not To chat and chat not

You know how to whistle, don’t you?

No, No, Lorgnette No, No, Lorgnette

La Cieca invites her cher public to discuss—in a dignified manner, if you please—the week’s off-topic and general interest subjects.

Christ, what an intermission feature! Christ, what an intermission feature!

La Cieca invites to flaunt your wit by supplying a caption for the above cartoon, the more New Yorker-esqe the better.