Smithsonian Magazine/Jamie Katz, May 2009

The people of Chicago, that stormy, husky, brawling kind of town, sure know how to tie on the feed bag. Has any other American city patented so many signature foods? There's deep-dish pizza, smoky, Polish sausages, Italian beef sandwiches au jus, and , of course, the classic Chicago-style hot dog; pure Vienna beef on a warm poppy-seed bun with mustard, relish, pickled peppers, onions, tomato slices, a quartered dill pickle and a dash of celery salt.

Filmaker/ Esther Robinson, Spring 2009

Over the last decade the credit card has starred in most of the creation myths of our industry. The gods of credit came down and handed us tablets of plastic and lo and beholda film was born. Sure, hard work and years of sweat and swear words played a part too, but that mighty card made it possible to pull art out of thin air. And it was like magic — when you needed credit, it appeared. A lot of films got made, but so did a lot of debt.

Time Magazine/Bob Diddlebock, Apr. 30, 2009

At the "confluence of passion and pragmatism," as one executive puts it, a handful of companies across the U.S. continue to support arts organizations in an economy not given to song and dance.

Community Arts Network:API News/Maria X. Martinez, April 28,2009

Today CAN is glad to bring you an article arguing for art for social justice by Maria X. Martinez of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The article originally appeared the print journal Social Justice, A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order.

The New York Times/ Robin Pogrebin, April 21,2009

Even as arts groups around the country are cutting back because of declining endowments and donations, a new foundation to support the work of American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists is being established with an initial $10 million from the Ford Foundation.