Photo by ZigZagLens via LAist's flickr pool. TV: The Paley Center hosts the cast and creative team of Monk tonight at 8:30 pm. There’s usually a screening, followed by discussion and Q&A. In person guests include Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford, among others. LIT TALK:: The Hammer Museum celebrates the 55th print anniversary of the literary journal the Paris Review and the publication of the Paris Review Interviews, Volume 3. Editor......

Photo by Dan90266 via LAist's flickr pool. FILM: To celebrate the opening of Saw V later this week, the ArcLight Hollywood’s having a Saw marathon all this week. Tonight at 10 pm is Saw. PERFORMANCE: “Face It: Torture in the 21st Century: An Evening of Theatre, Discussion and Art” at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica at 7:30 pm features One for the Road by Harold Pinter. There will be a post-performance discussion on......

The LA County Fair continues until Sept. 28. / Photo by !Manny! via LAist's flickr pool. TALK: Zócalo asks “Are the Teachers Unions Too Powerful?” tonight at the Los Angeles Public Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium at 7:30. Moderated by Joe Matthews, Irvine Senior Fellow, New America Foundaton, a panel will examine the “promise and limits of the power of the teachers’ unions.” Panelists: Joshua Pechthalt, a vice president of United Teachers Los Angeles; Mikki......

Even Bacchus looks like he's recovering from a crazy weekend. / Photo by FrogMiller via LAist’s photo pool. TEEVEE: The Paley Center is hosting a Fall Preview Party for NBC shows tonight, starting at 6 with screening at 7. The shows being featured have changed since the original lineup, so out with Kath and Kim and Knight Rider, but in with Chuck, Life, Lipstick Jungle and Kings. The event is free to the public,......

Just say 'yes' to these events around town tonight. / Great photo by ~db~ via LAist's flickr pool. THEATRE: The Company of Angels and The Management in NYC present the West Coast premiere of The Chalk Boy tonight at the Alexandria Hotel in downtown LA. Set in a small town, the story focuses on the relationship between four girls. “They struggle with faith, friendship, sex, the occult, algebra, and the disappearance of . .......