A couple of Sunday night events to kick-off or end your week, depending on how you see it. Gypsy Eyes, who is all over the place this week, hosts Last Call Poets at the Cadillac Lounge – 1296 Queen W. – tonight at 8pm. Admission is $7. Depending on how long Last Call Poets runs, you may be able to make it over to the Gladstone – 1214 Queen W. – for Haunted Fishtank poetry......

The inimitable Lisa Pijuan (who recently started a blog about nifty goings-on about town) presents the last RED of 2005 tonight at the Lula Lounge. The bi-monthly performance series is sure to wrap up the year with a bang, with curator Pijuan's usual eclectic and inspired mix of performers. Tonight's line-up includes seasoned storyteller Dan Yashinsky and dynamic performance poet Wakefield Brewster, as well as a varied slew of comedians, dancers, musicians, and performers of......

The Art of Slam, a spoken word performance art in which poets spit their pieces in the hope of getting a good score from the audience, was probably best-documented in the 1998 feature film Slam. In the movie, a young Saul Williams becomes a rapper/poet/writer in response to the harsh police-as-predators community in which he lives. This music could accurately be described as intensely verbose, though never as misunderstood as its way more popular cousin.......

One lucky Wednesday evening every other month, a wonderfully eclectic hoard of musicians, comedians, dancers, and all other manner of performer descends on the Lula Lounge for RED: A Night of Live Performance. Tonight is that lucky night this month. Wonderwoman Lisa Pijuan-Nomura has been curating and hosting RED for almost three years now, when she decided there weren't enough venues for performers and artists to simply play. Pijuan-Nomura, a dynamic performer in her......