The Art of Time Ensemble is at it again with their Words & Music program, kicking off their 10th anniversary season last night at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre. I was rather impressed with last season's America and The Black Angel, where Artistic Director Andrew Burashko explored the relationship between literature and music, and this new program continued in that tradition.

Introducing last night's show, CBC's Laurie Brown said that she always attends Art of Time Ensemble concerts because you never know what the hell you're going to see. While Burashko, in his opening comments, dedicated the evening's performance to Stephen Harper and the "fatcat elitist snobs."

Last time I caught an Art of Time Ensemble performance was when Barenaked Ladies' singer Steven Page covered his favourite artists. I was pleasantly surprised by the variety of genres and arrangements given. Last night's program offered another eclectic selection of music inspired by literature and literature inspired by music.

Adult TTC tickets are now officially no longer acceptable, as the transition to adopting TTC tokens for adult fares has come into effect as of midnight Sunday night.

This comes less than four months after a TTC collector sold fake tickets from booth.

This initiative is supposed to eliminate the losses (estimated at as much as $400,000 a month) that stem from counterfeiting TTC tickets, but what about the counterfeit TTC tokens? They still exist, although I'm sure they're harder to produce.

While I applaud the TTC for eliminating the adult tickets, I'd really like to see them make bigger moves with their fare process. Things like enabling the popular TTC Day Pass to be used in turnstiles like their Metropass. And adopting multi-ride swipe cards like they've had in New York City for years.

Update: [from Tim] It has come to our attention that there are inaccuracies with this post and that the author was actually late in arriving to the event. Our apologies. If anyone would like to submit to us an alternate review of the event we'd be happy to post it to the site

Improv Anywhere unleashed their MP3 Experiment in Riverdale Park today, which brought much colour and merriment on a Sunday afternoon, as well as dozens of stray balloons on the field.

Almost 300 turned out to take part in this mischievous endeavour that played out as more of a group game than a scene of chaos and joy in a public place, as was intended.

The idea was interesting, but in execution, it could've been much more. The voice on the free download got annoying fast, but the players involved didn't seem to mind and followed along to the silly instructions not too dissimilar from some drunken party Twister games, only more props and strangers were included.

CBC wants you to vote on the next Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) theme song, a contest open to songwriters and composers across Canada. You can already rate your favourite submission online among the many, many entries.

Some Toronto area bands who have entered include God Made Me Funky (GMMF) and The Shuffle Demons, who broke the Guiness World Record on May 30, 2004, for greatest number of sax players playing one song, when they gathered 930 saxophonists to simultaneously play the Hockey Night in Canada theme.

Ontario has 5661 submissions out of nearly 15,000 total entries. That's well above any other province, so there's a better-than-average chance of the winning submission coming from Toronto if there's any quality among the quantity of entries.

Among the more amusing entries is Hockey Scores (video above) by Logan Aube of Aurora, Ont. Currently with over 140,000 views and 94 pages of comments, it appears to be top contender.

PET3RS The Complete 3rd Season is actually live sketch comedy revue masquerading as a DVD, presented by the Approximately 3 Peters and directed by Andrew Currie.

Peter Gal, Pete Hill and Ian MacIntyre are back with more off-the-wall antics. Tonight you can catch the final performance of a month-long Saturdays at The Bad Dog Theatre.

Sketches include Too Drunk, which (if you'll excuse the pun) takes the piss out of urinating in public after boozing it up at a bar. Shitty Beards is an audience participatory commentary on the perils of growing facial hair. Particularly memorable was the sketch about a father having The Talk with his daughter. Skip the DVD rental tonight and watch the real thing.

Autorickshaw delighted the audience at the Small World Music Festival with a show in which east met west at Lula Lounge Thursday night with special guest Gordon Sheard.

I was already won over by the vocal sylings of Suba Sankaran, after hearing her in Retrocity and at the Kate Bush Tribute concert last month.

Hearing her with this Autorickshaw five-year-old ensemble with tabla player Ed Hanley, bassist Rich Brown and percussionist Debashis Sinha gave me a broader appreciation of her talents as both a vocalist, arranger and performer. Her voice reminds me a bit of Sheila Chandra.