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The old barn: Beneath graffiti and boarded up windows lies a solid
foundation Belmont Citizen-Herald By Christian Schiavone/cschiavo@cnc.com Heading out of town on Mill Street, it's easy to miss the World War I-era brick barn next to the Rock Meadow ... |
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LA: 'Ghettotainment' tours offer taste of gang life New Zealand Herald By Thomas Watkins View as one page Reporters look at walls covered by graffiti at the Graff Lab during an "LA Gang Tours" tour of Los Angeles, a venture run ... |
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Police still on the hunt for Graffiti-painting teens Beaverton Valley Times Police located three of the teens, ages 15, 13 and 16, in the parking lot of the complex and discovered fresh graffiti on the back walls of the Central Park ... |
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Freetown's freewheeling graffiti GlobalPost Glimpsed as I whizzed through the Freetown traffic on the back of a motorcycle, the scrawled graffiti tag evoked an image utterly at odds with the gritty ... |
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Officials seek to stiffen graffiti penalties Times Daily Johnny Mack Morrow, D-Red Bay, and Franklin County District Attorney Joey Rushing are expected to attend. Graffiti has been an ongoing problem in ... |
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Plane Diverted to Greece Because of Graffiti New York Times Police said the English-language graffiti found in the bathroom included the words ''will die today.'' Police who searched the plane said they found nothing ... |
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MoCity Now Offering “Temporary Fix” For Graffiti On Private Property FortBendNow Missouri City council voted without discussion to approve an ordinance that provides for the city to do a “quick cleanup” of graffiti on private property ... |
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Graffiti Documentary (Possibly) Directed by Banksy to Premiere at
Sundance Paste Magazine Banksy, the notoriously ambiguous London street artist, might be behind a documentary about graffiti art set to premiere at this year's Sundance Film ... |
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Bomb Threat Forces Plane to Land In North Greece New York Times By REUTERS ATHENS (Reuters) - A passenger plane travelling from Germany to Turkey made a safe emergency landing in the Greek city of Thessaloniki on Friday ... |
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Los Angeles Gang Tour Puts A Twist On Drive-Bys NPR Tthe tour stops here for a class on the history and intricacies of tagging and graffiti. The Metropolitan Detention Center, home to convicted bank robbers. ... |
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Graffiti as art: is Banksy responsible for guerilla pieces? Park Record by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF Some passers-by on Tuesday did not seem to notice the piece of graffiti artwork on the wall at Java Cow on Main Street. ... |
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Plane diverted to Greece because of graffiti Forbes AP , 01.22.10, 01:01 PM EST THESSALONIKI, Greece -- An airplane flying from Germany to Turkey was diverted to a Greek airport after a threatening message ... |
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Toilet 'death threat' graffiti grounds jet Scotsman The Turkish jet, carrying 68 people, was evacuated when it touched down in Thessaloniki. Police said that the English-language graffiti included the words ... |
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New program shedding light on graffiti problem KENS 5 TV by Chris Sadeghi / KENS 5 San Antonio's Place Light Upon Graffiti program is proving to be very popular after one week of open applications. ... |
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Gang graffiti illustrates struggle to maintain safe neighborhoods Scranton Times-Tribune But to those who think all graffiti look alike, there is a key difference between the sparse hieroglyphics marring this wall and the more colorful scenes ... |
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On Boriskie's last day as chief, 2 captains pulled out of Station 54 Houston Chronicle 13, six months after she said sexist and racist graffiti scrawled on the walls of the women's dormitory drove her and her sister firefighter Paula Keyes to ... |
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Officials want stiffer graffiti punishment Times Daily Officials said Russellville is riddled with graffiti. "Our city has been greatly damaged by graffiti in the last few months," said Franklin County District ... |
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Sundance film tries to catch elusive graffiti artist KSL-TV Graffiti art is popping up all over Park City and attracting big crowds. He's known as "Banksy," an underground graffiti artist who has tagged buildings all ... |
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Police investigate hateful graffiti Cape Cod Times By Aaron Gouveia The police are investigating three Upper Cape locations at which one or more vandals spray painted swastikas and profanities. ... |
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Famous 'tagger' Banksy strikes in Utah Salt Lake Tribune (Francisco Kjolseth / The Salt Lake Tribune ) A world-famous, but anonymous, graffiti artist struck this week in Utah -- in advance of his movie's arrival ... |
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Police arrest suspected graffiti vandal Asheville Citizen-Times This isn't the first time Harrill has been charged with graffiti vandalism. In 2007, police charged him with five counts of misdemeanor property damage. ... |
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Community works to stem gang graffiti Porterville Recorder Lieutenant Kevin Cotton, of the Tulare County Sheriff's Gang Violence Suppression Unit, studied the photographs taken of recent graffiti to determine which ... |
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Hateful Graffiti Found In Several Cape Locations WBZ Read more in our Privacy Policy Police are looking for the vandal or vandals responsible for spraying hateful graffiti around the Cape. ... |
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Police Investigate Rash Of Hateful Graffiti Boston Channel.com The offensive graffiti, which was applied in black spray paint, was first spotted on the front wall of Waldorf School of Cape Cod in Bourne Village. ... |
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Haitian first lady defends quake response ABC Online The first lady of Haiti has defended her husband's handling of the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake, after scattered protests and abusive graffiti ... |
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Partners boost effort to clean up graffiti San Bernardino Sun Graffiti - one word that is sure to ignite a heated debate, any time of year. Recognizing that more needed to be done, the city of San Bernardino ... |
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Banksy strikes at Sundance The Age Undercover UK graffiti artist Banksy has struck at Park City, Utah, home of the Sundance film festival, where his documentary Exit through the gift shop ... |
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More hate graffiti hits Upper Cape towns Cape Cod Today (blog) This follows reports of other swastika and graffiti at Scusset Beach in Sandwich and a school in Bourne over the weekend.Friday black Nazi swastikas were ... |
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Public invited to graffiti summit Corpus Christi Caller Times By Mary Ann Cavazos CORPUS CHRISTI — Together we can take a stand: That's part of the message behind the city's second graffiti summit. ... |
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Outcry over bond for Hills' graffiti teen Hills Shire Times THE 12-month good behaviour bond given to a 15-year-old Castle Hill youth on bail for graffiti offences has sparked public outrage. ... |
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Skate park is low priority Memphis Commercial Appeal Businesses and houses near the park have been tagged with graffiti, and property owners are being held responsible for paying for its removal. ... |
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Monthly neighborhood cleanup needs volunteers San Diego Union Tribune Participants will pick up trash and identify graffiti that needs to be removed. Electronic waste can also be dropped off at the site. ... |
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Graffiti attack on Stoke mosque ahead of race rally BBC News A mosque in Stoke-on-Trent was sprayed with graffiti referring to the upcoming English Defence League rally. Mosque administrators discovered the daubed ... |
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A True Story, Except When It's Not New York Times (blog) By MELENA RYZIK Chris Pizzello/Associated Press A pedestrian admires the work of the British graffiti artist Banksy at Sundance. ... |
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Banksy tags appear at Sundance Sideways News Despite not attending the premiere of his first film at the Sundance Film Festival, graffiti artist Banksy made sure that his presence was felt in Utah. ... |
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Graffiti Bomb Threat Closes St. Francis HS FOX 9 News St. Francis High School was closed Monday morning after threatening graffiti was found outside the building. Police said the vandal sprayed the words "Mass ... |
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60x60 and Physical Graffiti - CSU's Own Shine The Cauldron (subscription) The "Physical Graffiti" collection is visually at the other end of the spectrum. A mixed media barrage from artist Kushmere Bell. ... |
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Banksy Film Rocks Sundance Newser Meanwhile, the mysterious auteur left at least 10 of his signature pieces of graffiti art throughout Park City and Salt Lake City. ... |
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Another episode of Silicon Graffiti Chicago Daily Observer [This article was syndicated via RSS from Extreme Wisdom. The views represented do not necessarily represent those of the Chicago Daily Observer. ... |
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20-Year-Old Suspected In St. Helens Graffiti KPTV.com A 20-year-old man suspected of spraying graffiti on businesses in St. Helens was arrested over the weekend, police said. Alexander Wallace, of St. Helens, ... |
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Two Nehalem men held for Seaside vandalism Daily Astorian The arrests followed an investigation into more than 30 incidents of criminal mischief involving graffiti the past several months. ... |
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ID Cops: Growing graffiti menace merits felony law KIVI-TV Carlos Bilbao, a Republican from Emmett, said after an initial hearing Monday in the House Judiciary and Rules Committee that a misdemeanor graffiti law ... |
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Old Graffito Recalls a Happy Marriage Wall Street Journal Regarding Jan Morris's "A Celebration of Graffiti" (op-ed, Jan. 6): When its bark is cut with a knife, a quaky (quaking aspen) scars, turning the thin cut ... |
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In Santa Clarita, The Writing's Off The Wall KHTS Radio The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's station and the City of Santa Clarita's Graffiti Task Force just released their report for 2009. ... |
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$200kto beat graffiti Sunshine, Ardeer, Albion Star By Belinda Nolan BRIMBANK Council spends about $200000 each year to remove graffiti in a bid to clean up the municipality. The council forked out $196000 in ... |
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St. Helens man arrested after string of graffiti incidents in St.
Helens Examiner.com HELENS — A month-long investigation into multiple incidents of graffiti came to an end in the early hours of Jan. 23. A 20-year-old St. Helens man has been ... |
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Bilboa's Bill Targets Graffiti The Spokesman Review (blog) Carlos Bilbao, R-Emmett, offered a plan Monday to increase punishments levied on those who graffiti traffic signs and buildings. Bilbao pitched the proposal ... |
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Graffiti and Urban Art: Voices from Latin American Streets III Global Voices Online (blog) Venezuelan graffiti has extensive documentation on the Internet, and a notable part comes from users that act as collectors for all kinds of purposes. ... |
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Eye in the sky Minot Daily News "It takes time and labor to clean it up if it's graffiti, or fix it if it's broken. ... It's almost like a little bit of it you can expect, but when it gets ... |
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Art or vandalism? Business owners agree graffiti is unnecessary Indiana Daily Student Graffiti adorns the back wall of Rhino's Youth Center on Walnut Street. Rhino's allows Graffiti artist to spray paint the wall, providing a legal outlet for ... |
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A chance to make a big difference Corpus Christi Caller Times Corpus Christi residents who don't appreciate graffiti when it's displayed on their property have a chance this week to find out what they can do about it. ... |
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This travel award an ignoble prize San Francisco Chronicle The complaint about graffiti vandalism is that, even if police catch the taggers, nothing happens. But last week Roberto Gonzalez was found guilty of ... |
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Knock on wood, but sculpture is still graffiti-free in Bronx
neighborhood ... New York Daily News BY Mike Jaccarino Diego Medina's plywood sculpture 'Aurora' has remained free of graffiti and other vandalism during the six months it has been in front of ... |
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Bristol graffiti artist Banksy's film title revealed Guide2Bristol Due to be released this spring, the movie is called Exit Through The Gift Shop and it focuses on the story of an artist trying to make a film but failing. ... |
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Graffiti-Resistant, 'Indestructible' Call Center Cubicles Offered TMCnet And of course, along with being dirt-resistant and graffiti-resistant, it's "easier to disinfect since no fabric tiles are used that can retain moisture and ... |
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On love and marriage and God Graffiti Waggoner recently caught up with Graffiti to talk about her upcoming appearance on Mountain Stage, her new project and how writing songs for the piano and ... |
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Hate crime charges filed in Snoqualmie graffiti spree Seattle Post Intelligencer In court documents, Snoqualmie police claim Moore's graffiti and arson spree began June 9, when the 24-year-old allegedly spray painted "White Power" and ... |
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Irvine campus on alert after graffiti threat OCRegister By SEAN EMERY IRVINE – Police are keeping a close eye on Northwood High School after graffiti found on campus last week warned of "something bad" to happen ... |
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Snoqualmie man charged in wave of racist, anti-Semitic graffiti Seattle Times When Moore was arrested he was the lead suspect in the hate graffiti spray-painted and scrawled with pen on the exterior of several churches and other ... |
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Banksy's "Gift" challenges conventional concepts Reuters An outgrowth of the graffiti art that originated with '70s B-Boy culture, street art features the same outdoor locations and outlaw attitudes as its ... |
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Capital's graffiti battlefield Financial Times The fight between Iran's opposition and government has moved to the walls of Tehran and surrounding areas as both sides turn to graffiti to express their ... |
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Bill Proposes new Graffiti Laws KIVI-TV Graffiti is something all cities deal with and Boise is no exception. From 2006 to 2008 the Boise Police Department says they saw a 300% increase in ... |
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A New Bill Could Mean Strict Penalties For Graffiti Artists KPVI-TV It's an eyesore around many Idaho cities, now some lawmakers want to see stricter penalties for graffiti artists who damage private property. ... |
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Banksy film for United States premiere Telegraph.co.uk By Chris Brown Graffiti legend Banksy is dipping his toe into the world of film, as his new movie premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. ... |
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Dodds slams sectarian graffiti Belfast Telegraph By Michael McCready Sectarian and dissident republican graffiti which appeared in north Belfast over the weekend has been condemned. ... |
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Teens face felony charges for graffiti Keizertimes Two Keizer teens are facing felony criminal mischief charges after they were reportedly caught spraying graffiti. The two boys were arrested Sunday, Jan. ... |
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Snoqualmie man charged for racist and anti-Semitic graffiti SnoValley Star By Dan Catchpole A Snoqualmie man has been charged in connection with a spate of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on buildings in downtown ... |
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Documenting city's memorial graffiti Baltimore Sun (blog) "I started to record the images because I felt people were not aware of the scale of the graffiti citywide. I wanted to show the amount, the connection. ... |
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The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond Durango Telegraph PARK CITY, Utah – Graffiti: art, or marketing hype? As Park City prepared to host the Sundance Film Festival,The Park Record examined all three options in ... |
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Hahn urges LAPD chief to assign officer to handle San Pedro graffiti Daily Breeze The Harbor Division, Hahn wrote, formerly had an officer assigned specifically for graffiti patrols. "The `graffiti car' was very effective in decreasing ... |
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Graffiti Requires An Active Approach & Get Off Your Knees Imperial Valley Weekly For all the talk about graffiti, and how big a problem it is in Brawley, there isn't much done to discourage it. I'm not talking about The City of Brawley, ... |
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Juveniles arrested for causing $5000 in graffiti damage Victorville Daily Press Lastra learned the 15 and 16-year-olds were responsible for the graffiti on the brick wall. Both were arrested for affixing graffiti and booked into the ... |
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Reports of graffiti in Simi highest in city's history Ventura County Star By Anna Bakalis While overall crime has gone down in Simi Valley, more incidents of graffiti were reported last year than any time in the city's history. ... |
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Eastlake Ave. - Featured Stories: Graffiti on I-5 noise walls: Who to
call? CHS Capitol Hill Seattle I noticed the graffiti in the photo on the Harvard E. side of the freeway on Monday. There's a planting area on that side so it's possible to gain access to ... |
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Two teens charged after graffiti activity was seen by resident Statesman Journal Two Keizer teens face graffiti-related charges after their activity was spotted by a resident, police said. It happened Jan. 10 on Bill Frey Drive NE near ... |
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Man arrested over 'Hoax' graffiti spree in valley towns Halifax Evening Courier Inspector Derrick Oldham, who leads the Upper Valley neighbourhood policing team, said: "The graffiti caused a lot of upset among the local community and we ... |
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Adelanto taggers cause more than $5K damage San Bernardino Sun By Melissa Pinion-Whitt Sheriff's deputies arrested two suspected taggers Tuesday in Adelanto on suspicion of causing more than $5000 in graffiti damage. ... |
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Graffiti Still Plaguing Hilltop; Residents Stand Up NBC4i.com Hilltop residents are tired of graffiti and say they're ready to take on the problem and find a way to make things better. By Marcus Thorpe | Anchor, ... |
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Wiesel warns on Iran, raps wartime pope Jewish Telegraphic Agency In Rome, the day was marred by unknown vandals spray-painting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti on the wall of a museum in the former SS headquarters ... |