MUSIC: David Berman and the rest of his Silver Jews are stopping by Lee's Palace tonight as part of their North American tour. They're joined by Boston rock group Hallelujah The Hills. Lee's Palace (529 Bloor Street West), 9 p.m., $15. THEATRE: The Dora Award–winning production of Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched is being remounted briefly at Tarragon Theatre, after a successful run in February 2007. The show is directed by Richard Rose, and runs until......

This Monday night, January 22, head down to the Gladstone Hotel and join Broken Pencil Magazine founding editor and publisher (and journalist and author) Hal Niedzviecki as he hosts the self-professed “best games night in the city (on a Monday night anyway).” The occasion? Monday night marks the launch of BP’s newest issue, which is, fittingly, the games issue. There will be an assortment of classic board games, games of hide and seek, and, everyone's......

Apologies for the lack of listings last week. The combination of the previous night’s Halloween party and an encroaching deadline on another project left little time for me to gather all the literary happenings in the city. Monday This Is Not A Reading Series presents Ben Schott (pictured), author of Schott’s Almanac. There will be a trivia pop quiz, surprise guests, and more – it’s a TINARS event, so you know it won’t be your......

Taddle Creek, one of our favourite local literary journals, is having a launch party tomorrow night at the Cadillac Lounge. The launch party promises a barbecue on the spacious back patio of the Cadillac, popsicles and of course authors galore. Doors 8pm. The upcoming issue features work by Torontoist friends like Suzanne Alyssa Andrews, Chris Hutsul and Hal Niedzviecki.......

Once a symbol of rebellion and non-conformity, tattoo art might now be a government-sanctioned activity for society's most removed outcasts. In a move that would have Hal Niedzviecki shaking his head, Corrections Canada is considering a pilot project that would provide tattooing instruction and safe tools to prisoners in six institutions across the country. Mr Niedzviecki likes to think that things like tattoos are now so mainstream, they become the mark of conformity rather than......