Happy New Year ... and Seriously Give Generously to KidsArts!

In this wee holiday edition of Open Media Boston, you'll find a piece asking for donations to the innovative, Jamaica Plain based, grassroots, multicultural, arts education program for kids, KidsArts! (the exclamation point being quite sensibly built into their name). They need to raise $15,000 by Friday or they may not make it far into the new year. We've already been asking for money for ourselves all month (and in general). So we think it would be great if people check out the letter in our Opinion section explaining the KidsArts! situation, dig deep, and make a donation to help Boston kids get the kind of arts education that they are increasingly not getting in school thanks to years of budget cuts. Beyond that ask, Happy New Year from all of us here at OMB! We look forward to serving Boston and environs with progressive news and views in 2011. Have fun this weekend. And please, don't drink and drive or make anything other than merry.