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Ferrandino tags bill to cut down on graffiti tools The Colorado Statesman Mark Ferrandino walks his Southwest Denver neighborhoods, he sees the homes and businesses defaced by graffiti and he hears — loud and clear — the impact on ... |
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The Graffiti Activist: Asim Butt [1978-2010] GlobalPost (blog) ... a new twist he organized a team of activists to graffiti various art symbols across Karachi that visually displayed our rejection of the dictatorship. ... |
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Downtown Jefferson City hit with graffiti Jefferson City News Tribune By News Tribune staff New graffiti started showing up the first week of January in the downtown Jefferson City area. Downtown Jefferson Inc. is asking that ... |
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For $65, Tourists Get Peek at Los Angeles Gangland FOXNews AP Reporters look at walls covered by graffiti at the Graff Lab during a "LA Gang Tours" tour of Los Angeles on Jan. 10. LOS ANGELES — Only miles from the ... |
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Calif. man extends jail stay with cell graffiti Fresno Bee A Northern California man who scrapped gang graffiti on the walls of his holding cell has earned himself an extended stay in jail. ... |
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On Los Angeles Bus Tour, an Insider View of Gang Life New York Times They included the Los Angeles County jail; a mostly dry concrete riverbed favored by graffiti taggers; and the sheriff's station used by the National Guard ... |
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Is it art or is it vandalism? San Gabriel Valley Tribune Dokument Press has just published a fascinating and beautifully rendered book titled "Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles. ... |
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Wiping out graffiti Las Cruces Sun-News Michael Acosta, 18, left, and Miranda Barajas, 17, join with other members of the Gadsden High School Navy JROTC to cover up graffiti Saturday in Anthony. ... |
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Walled city birthplace a target for vandals Arizona Daily Star With no workers or security on the site, the walls have fallen prey to graffiti , said Bill Dupont of Friends of Tucson's Birth Place, ... |
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New unit to fight graffiti Cumberland Courier Newspapers Mayor Paul Garrard and Crs John Chedid and Michael McDermott with Parramatta Council's new graffiti-buster quick response vehicle. ... |
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Teens possibly tag vacant home with gang-related graffiti Bradenton Herald After the teens were in custody, deputies noticed gang graffiti on the residence representing the east side Crips. The damage was estimated at $2000. |
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Follow-Up...And First (Again) on LBReport.com LBReport.com The City of Long Beach, at great expense removes graffiti upon being notifies within 48 to 72 hours. We remove graffiti because we embrace the "broken ... |
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Offenders to clean city buildings of graffiti Irish Times CONVICTED OFFENDERS will be cleaning graffiti from city centre buildings in the coming months under a pilot project between the Probation Service and Dublin ... |
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Wallpapering over the trash CNN International I like to think of these interventions as polite graffiti. This project is an inquiry into urban waste, free art, and notions of femininity, ... |
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Vandals now will have to repay cities for damages The Desert Sun Anyone convicted for vandalizing government property with graffiti around the Coachella Valley now will be responsible for paying the cost of repairs. ... |
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Man arrested after weekend graffiti outbreak Manx Radio A Port St Mary man has been arrested after what appears to be Manx nationalist graffiti was found in the north and south of the Island. ... |
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Graffiti and Urban Art: Voices from Latin American Streets II Global Voices Online (blog) As in any organized community, graffiti has its own rules. Graffiti's primary medium of creation is aerosol spray paint. Experienced graffiti writers use ... |
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San Jose Begins New Campaign to Curb Graffiti KCBS Last summer, anti-graffiti teams removed more than 37000 tags in the city of San Jose. Brandon Kasper (????), head of San Jose's anti-graffiti and litter ... |
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Graffiti vandals deface houses and vehicles in Van Buren Park
overnight The Herald-Times (subscription) By Laura Lane Vandals armed with cans of fluorescent spray paint defaced houses, cars and a school bus in the Van Buren Park subdivisi . ... |
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Mural goes up on Service Day to battle graffiti Greeley Tribune When the John Painter Unit of the Boys & Girls Club of Weld County got tagged by graffiti vandals earlier this winter, the seed for turning a negative into ... |
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Teenager accused of vandalizing Portland and West Linn sites with a
graffiti tag OregonLive.com By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian A 19-year-old accused of vandalizing more than a dozen Portland and West Linn locations with his graffiti tag "Glimpse" ... |
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Southaven Investigates Possible "Gang" Graffiti WREG Someone or some group tagged dozens of traffic signs with graffiti over the weekend. Southaven police don't think they have a gang problem, but they're not ... |
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San Antonio graffiti art or blight? KENS 5 TV by Joe Conger / KENS 5 A concerned citizen caught a group of people spray-painting a fence. But when residents called police, they got a surprise: the ... |
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YOUTH GYMNASTICS: NT girls shine at Graffiti invite Tonawanda News ... very early on a recent Saturday morning to compete at the 2010 Winter Graffiti Invitational Gymnastics Meet held at the Niagara Falls Conference Center. ... |
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Valley marks Martin Luther King Jr. with parade, march AZ Central.com Stephen Kopiec, 19, and Katerina Ruzickova, 18, spent the morning repainting old buildings on the park's property that have been tagged with graffiti. ... |
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Kids turn ugly into art on Day of Service Greeley Tribune The annual National Day of Service was coming up, so the kids decided to do their own community art — hopefully as a way to staunch future graffiti. ... |
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Imperial police nab third suspect in graffiti outbreak Imperial Valley Press (subscription) (press release) Martinez's arrest comes one day after a teenage boy and an 18-year-old man were arrested for their alleged roles in the graffiti markings of seven ... |
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Police warn graffiti is criminal damage Manx Radio Police say graffiti on walls around the Isle of Man is unpleasant and unwanted, whatever the motivation behind it might be. At the weekend, a number of ... |
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Artist's railway project aims to deter graffiti taggers New Zealand Herald Photo / Dean Purcell An Auckland artist has completed works on two walls of the Newmarket railway corridor as part of an effort to deter graffiti taggers. ... |
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Parker starting mayoral tenure with police, fire chief searches Houston Chronicle While Boriskie struggled to combat negative perceptions that developed about the department and his leadership as the graffiti incident unfolded, ... |
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DJ Graffiti hosting Haiti benefit at Rush Street on Thursday AnnArbor.com Local DJ and entrepreneur DJ Graffiti will host a special raffle benefit party for Haiti relief efforts at 9 pm on Thursday at Rush Street. ... |
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Waukesha program for disabled receives Packers grant Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ACAP enables its members to become contributing and valued members of their communities through such efforts as Graffiti Effacers, which cleans up graffiti; ... |
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One of two accused graffiti vandals sentenced to 18 months in state
jail Corpus Christi Caller Times By Mary Ann Cavazos CORPUS CHRISTI — A graffiti vandal has been sentenced to a year and a half in state jail for vandalism to several buildings including a ... |
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Racist graffiti in Wellington Somerset County Gazette POLICE are still looking for the person who sprayed racist graffiti in Cornhill, Wellington, last month. The offender used a can of festive 'spray snow' ... |
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Another Nordstrom Rack in NYC's Future; Chanel Gets Graffiti Curbed (blog) 1) Midtown East: Manhattan's first Nordstrom Rack is not yet open, but there are already rumors that the company might be renting out 521 Fifth Avenue at ... |
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Brothers get prison for graffiti attack OCRegister ... Ana brothers were sentenced to prison today for beating and stabbing a 38-year-old man who tried to stop them from painting gang graffiti on a wall. ... |
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Mural program to target Oak Cliff walls, graffiti Dallas Morning News (blog) Graffiti tagging may be part of the Oak Cliff scene. But outdoor murals will add color and creativity in the coming months. Building owners on Seventh ... |
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Doing good on King Day Arizona Daily Star AmeriCorps volunteers Alicia Guevara, top, and others eradicate graffiti with a fresh coat of paint during a cleanup project at Handi-Dogs Inc., ... |
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Mural program to target Oak Cliff walls Dallas Morning News By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News Graffiti tagging may be part of the Oak Cliff scene. But outdoor murals will add color and creativity in the ... |
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Three More Russellville Buildings Vandalized WHNT Graffiti was splashed across three more businesses over the weekend. Officials say that it started back in October, and since then, the problem has ... |
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Volunteers tackle Antioch's graffiti problem Contra Costa Times By Hilary Costa When Larry Treat and some of his neighbors became fed up with the graffiti plastered across the sound walls in their southeast Antioch ... |
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NAMES + FACES Simon, Sony rule the media Detroit Free Press On Thursday night in Ann Arbor, DJ Graffiti will hold a special Raffle for Haiti event at Rush Street. A $2 cover charge will get you in the door and one ... |
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Informational meeting about gangs and kids KNPR Topics will include: gang and graffiti types, reporting gang and graffiti activity, how gang members recruit new members, why young people join gangs, ... |
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Gangland Tour Offers Gritty Alternative to Disneyland BlackBook Magazine Looking for more gritty reality, less blond and silicone, in your Los Angeles travels? Look no further than LA Gang Tours. Alfred Lomas, a former member of ... |
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4 Arrested For Painting Graffiti In Clermont Co. WCPO Police say they found four subjects along the railroad tracks off Roudebush Lane carrying several cans of spray paint and paint spray nozzles. ... |
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Our Opinion: Sending a message: No more graffiti Imperial Valley Press (subscription) By IMPERIAL VALLEY STAFF It seems as though graffiti is one of those crimes that often goes unsolved, where the perpetrators get away without ever being ... |
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4 Accused Of Painting Graffiti Near Railroad Tracks WLWT BATAVIA, Ohio -- Authorities arrested four men Tuesday accused of spray-painting graffiti along some Clermont County railroad tracks. ... |
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Boulder police investigate swastika graffiti Daily Camera Officers were called to the building in the 6600 block of Lookout Road about 8 am Tuesday after the owners of Lookout Road Ltd. found the graffiti, ... |
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Four charged for spray painting graffiti Cincinnati.com It was determined they had been painting graffiti in the area. A Clermont County sheriff's deputy responded to the scene and took the individuals into ... |
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Graffiti appears in Park City, but is it the work of the famous
Banksy? Park Record by Jay Hamburger, of The Record staff At least three pieces of graffiti art have appeared in Park City in recent days, but it was not immediately clear ... |
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Houston fire probe in hands of FBI Houston Chronicle By BRADLEY OLSON HOUSTON CHRONICLE The Houston Police Department investigation into an incident last July in which racist and sexist graffiti was found ... |
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West Seattle graffiti suspect found incompetent to stand trial Seattle Times At a hearing in Seattle Municipal Court this afternoon, a 31-year-old man charged in connection with a series of acts of vandalism in West Seattle was found ... |
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Lake Worth plan aims to squelch graffiti by banning spray paint sales
to minors Palm Beach Post By Willie Howard LAKE WORTH — The city plans to fight the graffiti used by gangs to mark their turf with an ordinance that would ban the sale of spray paint ... |
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Police log: Screaming man 'on meth' threatens woman Tracy Press 8:20 am: A caller reported there was graffiti sprayed on three walls inside the unisex bathroom at Hoyt Park, 234 Dale Odell Drive. ... |
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Today in Graffiti: The Hibernia Bank Tagger SFist But yeah, we wish it were prettier. Below, a clip from our favorite 80s graffiti movie, Downtown 81, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat. |
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Jail terms for graffiti Collie Mail COLLIE Shire Council, whose workers regularly remove sprayed and other rude messages and “tags” (graffiti signatures), has welcomed tough new penalties for ... |
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Graffiti gang caught in the act Merredin Wheatbelt Mercury The youths caused significant graffiti damage to the pool deck and in the male and female toilets. They used industrial paint markers to leave their tag. ... |
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Maui Aims To Be Graffiti-Free Maui Weekly Maui County, community volunteers team up for graffiti-free skate parks in 2010. “We encourage the users to take ownership of their parks. ... |
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Police tighten screw on Manx nationalist graffiti campaign Isle of Man Today By ADRIAN DARBYSHIRE POLICE are urging those behind a co-ordinated nationalist graffiti campaign to hand themselves in. Investigations are continuing into a ... |
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'Graffiti is no joke' Bexley Times SERIAL graffiti artists have pushed one resident to breaking point and incensed others after spraying silver paint on homes then writing "p***ed" and "Ha Ha ... |
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Mobile phones to be used in the war against graffiti in Basildon Essex Echo By Emma Palmer » RESIDENTS in Basildon will be able to text the council photos of graffiti blackspots under a new scheme. Basildon Council is thought to be ... |
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Palestinian graves found damaged after settlers visit BBC News Damaged graves and racist graffiti have been found in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West Bank after a Jewish group visited the area. ... |
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Three arrests in connection with graffiti tagging Mid-Hudson News MIDDLETOWN – City Police in Middletown have arrested three city residents in connection with graffiti “tagging.” Two of them, 16-year-old males, ... |
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Juvenile female charged with spraying graffiti Delta County Independent 13, officers of the Delta Police Department charged a juvenile female in connection with the graffiti problem Delta is currently facing. ... |
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[Sundance] Graffiti Artist Banksy To Debut Mysterious New Film The Film Stage (blog) Banksy, the renowned British graffiti artist, whose artworks are often satirical diatribes on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics, is shocking the ... |
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Famous 'tagger' Banksy strikes in Utah Salt Lake Tribune By Sean P. Means A painting attributed to popular graffiti artist Banksy on the wall of the Java Cow coffee shop in Park City. (Amy Spencer/ In This Week) A ... |
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Teens accused of nearly 20 graffiti incidents ENC Today Jacksonville police have charged a pair of teenagers in 17 separate incidents of graffiti in the Brynn Marr area. Ronald Shaffer and Kegan Van Damke, ... |
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Rec center hit by anti-Semitic graffiti — again Jweekly.com Park patrol officers discovered the graffiti around 1 am Jan. 11. It was documented, photographed and, within in a few hours, painted over. ... |
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Israel probes vandalism of Palestinian cemetery Washington Post A spokeswoman for the Israeli army said an investigation had been opened after graffiti was found on walls situated "hundreds of meters from the cemetery. ... |
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Latest Shepard Fairey Piece Slams Healthcare Debacle BlackBook Magazine Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist and illustrator famous for his Barack Obama “HOPE” poster and “Obey Giant” graffiti campaign, recently unveiled his ... |
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Tour Bus Shows Off LA's Gangland Newser 10, 2010, photo, a graffiti artist stands in front of a painted wall at the Graff Lab during a "LA Gang Tours" tour of Los Angeles. ... |