You've surely seen them appear in your Facebook news feed, camouflaged amongst status updates. Nominate your favorite charity for a chance to win $200,000! Pepsi is giving away millions to fund refreshing ideas! Corporations have, not surprisingly, turned their marketing lens to the social networks, and...

There's an advertisement on television now for the all new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Perhaps you've seen it. A sledgehammer pounds a steel tie into a railroad track with a romantic clang as nostalgic images of the Great American Century pass us by. "This was once a country where people...

I spend a lot of time lately writing to potential arts education funders and telling them the ways in which the Arts (with a capital "A") can improve a child's self-esteem, increase their attendance in school, even improve their math scores.

Each time I do this a little voice...

I've been walking into public elementary schools for four years now to mentor students in screenwriting. Doing this requires running an urban gauntlet of sorts: passing through a chain link fence, signing in a log book and getting a yellow visitor sticker, before making my way into a classroom.

This...

It's one of the great anomalies of our society that the arts are both valued and underfunded; both praised and looked upon as a frivolity. A Harris Poll found that 93% of Americans find arts education to be a vital part of a well-rounded education. A visit to the opera...