Dan Misener's unstoppably rad reading series, Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, is moving to new digs for its fourth installation next Monday. The little event that could—wherein grownups read their grade school stories, diaries, and poems to a bunch of people they've never met before—is picking up from its former home at the Victory Cafe and bopping over to the Gladstone to accommodate its ever-increasing audience of believers. Even with the bigger venue,......

Now here is a fail-proof event with a pretty self-explanatory title. Dan Misener is back once again with Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, demanding you dig through your parents' basement and uproot the comedy gold that is your grade school Hilroy cahier. This popular open-mic reading series lures folks out to read excerpts from old book reports, journals, camp letters, and pretty much whatever other embarrassingly earnest/confusing/hilarious childhood document they can unearth,......

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......

Even if you've mastered the spelling of words like "dedicated" and "trouble" by now, and you no longer consider Laura to be your very best friend, there's still a chance to put those early works of literary exploration to good use. Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids 2 is a creative (and so cute!) reading series that is the work of Dan Misener, who came up with the idea when he and his......

As the summer slowly makes way for what seems to be an early fall, pretty soon we'll all spend more time huddled around the fireplace for the... holiday season. That's right... Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa are just around the corner, and the family is coming over to your place for dinner. They will come by and sit in your living room as you pass around some celebratory glasses of wine or nog. How......

Looking for something to do Saturday afternoon besides antiquing? Check out the Toronto Small Press Fair at Trinity St.Paul Centre (427 Bloor St W.) between 11am-6pm. Stroll around different tables set up with some of our favorite indie rags like Kiss Machine and puddlepress. For extra indie lit points, go see Emily Schultz, John Terpstra and more read later that day at The Victory Cafe, 6-9pm.......

In the ladies room at the Victory Cafe on Saturday night. Girl (adjusting her shirt in the mirror): I'm trying to make this shirt look less slutty. Her Unsupportive Friend: Dude. Guess what. It don't matter.......

Your great Canadian novel is only three days away, if you decide to enter the charmingly masochistic 3 day Novel Contest. There's a last minute registration today at The Victory Cafe, and then it's off to your garret and your typewriter and your bloodshot eyes and crumpled scraps of once upon a time... Last year's winners were a tag team, writing emails back and forth until they arrived at a novel, Love Block. Need an......

Smog alerts, humidity, heat, makes you want to just sit in the park doesn't it? And wouldn't your evening picnic be a little nicer with some of Toronto's best writers? It's the basic premise for the Scream Literary Festival, what started as a one night reading in High Park has now expanded into a nearly two week long fest that stretches across the city. There's a special Scream edition of literary art installation Murmur in......

All sorts of things to do this weekend, and so many questions to be answered. For example... What is Scenography? Find out tonight at YYZ's opening of Speaking Scenography: Scenoart, a body of such works by Sue Gallagher, Andrew King and Angela Silver. More on scenoart. What is Riverdale? Head east of the DVP and you will find an oasis of fine coffee shops and moms with fancy strollers. But Riverdale also has art aplenty......