Star Bulletin/Katherine Nichols, March 15, 2009

Kalani and a few of his fellow residents at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in Kailua look forward to Saturday mornings, when they're allowed to go into the courtyard and paint the once bland walls now teeming with color and cultural symbols depicting the history of hula.

Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce/Roger Valdez, March 16, 2009

We usually find out how livable our city is when a magazine or organization conducts a survey and ranks Seattle based on a variety of indicators. The indicators range from the cost of living to how easy it is to get a taxi. Such rankings might be useful for travelers, but probably won't help us make our city more livable.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 19, 2009

Lean economic times have museums experimenting with creative strategies for getting people through the doors, The New York Times reports as part of a special section of museum stories.

Columbia Spectator/JC Barcelon, March 5, 2009

It’s a bright and momentous occasion that takes a Columbian not just out of the Morningside bubble, but onto the mystic 7 line and all the way to Queens.

“Queens International 4” emits one such beckoning call. The fourth in a series of exhibitions held by the Queens Museum of Art, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a collection of work from numerous artists working in and around the multicultural neighborhood. Volcanically creative, “Queens” is an exotic ensemble of art alive with the borough’s cultural and visual diversity.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 12, 2009

More than 160 orchestras in 45 states are expected to take part in food drives in advance of the spring release of a movie about a Juilliard-trained musician with schizophrenia who becomes homeless, the Associated Press reports.