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...looking for.” Heidi Schork, director of the Boston Youth Fund Mural Crew (BYFMC), loves blank, abandoned walls, which Boston neighborhoods have in abundance. The BYFMC began as a offshoot of the city summer jobs program, with the modest mandate of covering up graffiti on shop fronts in Roxbury. Twelve years and over one hundred murals later, the Crew has expanded into a full-year program combining the goals of urban renewal, after-school program and art school...
Part of the student’s education in the Mural Crew, Schork explains, is learning to deal with criticism from the public. Especially when a mural is still in the outlining stages, reactions from passersby range from praise to indifference to annoyance. There is also the danger of graffiti: While most finished murals are left alone, unfinished ones are often vandalized. Browder explains that her group ran out of time last summer and had to leave their mural in Fields Corner, Dorchester incomplete. Soon after, their work—including her portraits of fellow students and community members?...
...officer went to Fairfax Hall to investigate reports that youths were spray painting graffiti on the building. The officer was unable to locate the vandals...
...rounded set, working the crowd and getting the fans to sing him “Happy Birthday.” He also treated them to a brief hip hop history lesson emphasizing the importance of the DJ as the first element of hip hop, in conjunction with the MCs, graffiti artists and break dancers...
...doesn't necessarily take a $62,000 car to get that American Graffiti feeling. Consider the Massey family of Birmingham, Ala. Brothers Mark and James, both fathers in their 30s, say they're happy cruising in their mid-priced Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyders. "At almost every red light," says Mark, "someone wants to race me." That rebel spirit is catchy. After their mother June--a 60-year-old nurse--took a spin, she bought a Spyder...