Montreal band October Sky rocked The Annex WreckRoom Wednesday night, in association with Indie Can radio showcase.

After being featured on the Plus Sur Commande (the Musique Plus version of Much on Demand) for their video of Hit the Ground off their Hell Isn't My Home album, October Sky started gaining momentum.

"Next we were featured on Much Loud and then radio started picking us up more," said keyboardist Yanik Rouleau before they took the stage. "Toronto is our second home.

"But our studio is in Montreal. We went back there to practice and do the album in a home studio, keeping our costs down. We're trying to build a really big fan base in Toronto."

Newmindspace attempted to create an art installation out of a string of lights higher than the CN Tower last night.

Starting at 7 p.m. they assembled in the field in the centre of University of Toronto's King's College Circle and slowly raised a glowing string of LED lights, buoyed by helium balloons.

I arrived on the scene around 9:30 p.m. after having checked out a show at Sketchfest at The Comedy Bar. The event was supposed to go until 11 p.m., so I hoped to see them reach a substantial height of lights by then.

By 11 p.m. they hoped to have a dazzling string of lights that exceeded 553 metres high, drifting gently in the wind. But at 10:30, the fishing wire unexpectedly snapped, sending a bunch of lights high into the night sky. Potentially higher than the CN Tower.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival has doled out lots of laughs the last four nights. There's just tonight and tomorrow night to catch some diverse sketch comedy.

Most of the shows feature three comedy troupes from across North America. While some are hit-and-miss, the majority of the sketches are cleverly written and well acted.

I started at The Diesel Playhouse Thursday night at 9 p.m. for Death Ray Cabaret, Smells Like the 80s and My First Crush (all from Toronto). The second act contained a hilarious sketch about a guy who took his Medieval Times obsession too far (pictured above).

Artscape Wychwood Barns, which officially opens to the public on Thursday, is a pleasant anomaly in Toronto.

It's a burgeoning 60,000 square foot community-based facility that Artscape developed with the City of Toronto and The Stop Community Food Centre. You'll find it situated on a five-acre piece of land where the former historic TTC streetcar repair barns were located, in the St. Clair and Christie neighbourhood.

Artscape Wychwood Barns has space for 15 artist studios and 26 artist live/work spaces, as well as 13 not-for-profit organizations that will provide educational programming focused on arts and the environment.

Since Tim's first look last weekend, I got a chance to preview the space and meet with some of the artists who got affordable live/work, studio, office and rehearsal spaces in the new facility....

The new Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is a transformed gallery abounding in organically shaped curvy staircases made of Douglas fir and the extensive use of glass, showing off the talents of architect Frank Gehry and giving the gallery a much-needed face-lift.

On Thursday I got a chance to hear Toronto-raised Gehry speak about his role in the transformation of what's sure to be one of Toronto's most talked about galleries. I also got to capture some of the spaciousness and beauty of the place in the photos that follow....

The Comedy Bar celebrated its official opening Friday night, kicking off a weekend of free comedy in Toronto.

Gary Rideout Jr. (of The Sketchersons) has carved out a cozy little new space to call home for comedy in a promising space at 945 Bloor St. W. near Ossington. The Comedy Bar's 110-seat theatre will host 70 shows a month and feature more than 300 performers in sketch, improv and stand-up.

Friday night's showcase featured some clever performances from Canadian Comedy Award winning troupe, The Sketchersons. The comedic onslaught continues Sunday evening with their flagship show, Sunday Night Live, starting at 8 p.m.