Irish Times/ Yvonne Gordon, April 17,2009

Don't be surprised if you leave home one morning to find that the neglected piece of wasteground near your house or office has been transformed overnight into a mini flower garden. This may be due to the work of "guerrilla gardeners" who have decided to reclaim an ugly or neglected space to create something beautiful.

The Center for Michigan/ Monetta Harr, April 16, 2009

As visitors wind their way through solitary confinement cells and underground tunnels in the historic Jackson State Prison, Judy Gail Krasnow tells stories of prisoners like Harry Evans, who wrote poetry under the name "John Blood" and read it on the radio on Sunday mornings.

You Tube/ April 15, 2009

In this You Tube video, Carol Bebelle extrapolates her experiences in the tragedy of a colleague's recent death onto a discussion of the spiritual needs of a community following disaster.

The Nation/Jeff Chang, April 15, 2009

On inauguration day, Tom Brokaw was moved to compare Barack Obama's election to Czechoslovakia's 1989 Velvet Revolution. At the eye of each storm, of course, was an icon who merged the political and the aesthetic--Václav Havel, the rock-star poet and prophet, and Barack Obama, the post-soul master of his own story. Both struck down eras of monocultural repression with their pens.

Philadelphia Citypaper/Ptah Gabrie, April 14, 2009

Chinatown North, as we know it, is a no-man's-land of old factory buildings, sparse strips of row houses and streets overwhelmed by tall weeds and trash. But thanks to the Asian Arts Initiative's 2009 "Chinatown In/flux: Future Landscapes" project, revitalization may not be out of reach.