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• City To Sue Parents of Juvenile Graffiti Offenders July 1, 2009
  Police have one more tool in their arsenal to go combat the ever increasing graffiti problem. The Corpus Christi City Council unanimously supported suing parents of habitual graffiti offenders Tuesday, specifically when the tagger has done extreme damage. The law has been on the books for several years now, but hadn’t been enforced. But now, with the [...]
• Vandals Sully an Ode to East Harlem June 27, 2009
  ART UNDER ATTACK A four-story mural at 104th Street and Lexington Avenue from the 1970s features real-life residents. This month, graffiti vandals struck. The walls of East Harlem can speak. Dozens of colorful murals line the narrow streets and wide avenues, celebrating pleneros and poets, rumberos and revolutionaries. Defying gentrification, their dazzling colors brighten sun-starved stretches [...]
• Graffiti - Oldschool Train Bombing June 25, 2009
• Lee Quinones: Tribute to the late Iz the Wiz June 19, 2009
  Lee Quinones: Tribute to the late Iz the Wiz from Raquel Cepeda on Vimeo. Legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones recites a tribute he wrote for the late Masterblaster Iz the Wiz @ the Hellenbeck Gallery in NYC on June 18. We were there to support our friend Henry Chalfant at an Subway Art Anniversary book signing. [...]
• Graffiti suspect surrenders to Pittsburgh police June 18, 2009
  Thursday, June 18, 2009 By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Brookline man described by police as one of Pittsburgh’s most prolific graffiti vandals over a two-year period has surrendered to authorities. Matthew Colamarino, who is No. 4 on the city’s list of “10 Most Wanted Graffiti Vandals,” turned himself in on Tuesday, according to Detective Daniel Sullivan [...]