Tomorrow night, experience the best and brightest of the Toronto Alternative Comedy scene. Graham Wagner (Iron Cobra, Catch 23) and Mike Balazo are holding an event called Mouth Party at the Victory Cafe. Says Balazo, "We host the show as two bitter, washed-up, stuffy CBC radio types who disparage the current state of broadcasting." It's also a rare chance to catch these comics—Balazo has been performing in the UK for the past three months and......

No time…Must get back down to Harbourfront…IFOA in full swing…Here are some other literary events taking place this week…. Monday The Test Reading Series returns on Monday night, 7:30pm, with readings from Rob Read (that could be the best name for a writer I’ve ever heard) and Souvankham Thammavongsa. This night is also doubling for the launch of the new issue of Carousel, one of the best lit mags in the country – Mark Laliberte......

Nick Flanagan's joke club held its one year anniversary last night, and over a dozen acts tried to make funny over the course of the evening. Gilson Lubin killed, the self-styled Dumb Grampa amused us, and the halftime show, courtesy of TV Carnage, took us down a memory lane Alan thicke with bizarre footage like George Bush Sr. puking while his wife watches on uninterested. Also, some guy shaved his chest onstage. Why, we......

Spitfires & Mayflowers launch their triumphant CD with a party this evening. They promise a night full of "helium balloons, The Barmitzvah Brothers, cupcakes, The Decoy Mile, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, MC "eye coverboy" Nick Flanagan, handslaps" and more. That's probably a bit too much mirth for a Thursday night, but we can handle it. And so can you. Especially since the band went to the trouble of packaging all their new discs by hand. Long live letterpress.......