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  • Stencil Pirates Book Review
    Stencil Pirates Book Review
    Book Review– Stencil Pirates By Josh MacPhee Soft Skull Press-Published 2003 Pirates are cool.  I’m always concerned about anything incorporating the word ‘pirate’ into their tit...
  • Stencil Graffiti Book Review
    Stencil Graffiti Book Review
    Book Review– Stencil Graffiti By Tristan Manco Thames and Hudson-Published 2002 This book is bad-ass.  The layout, size, images, everything.  Stencil Graffiti features over 400 images, almost all...
  • Featured: 25th Anniversary “Subway Art” ...
    Featured:  25th Anniversary “Subway Art” Book Review
    Book Review– Subway Art:  25th Anniversary Edition By Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant Chronicle Books-Published April 2009 Subway Art, the 25th Anniversary Edition book  d...
  • “Chicago v.s. Montreal”
    “Chicago v.s. Montreal”
    On our recent trip to Montreal, Quebec, it didn’t take long before we started to notice all the similarities between these two international cities.  Inevitably I think travelers, consciously o...
  • Aldeman Balcer Destroys Mural
    Aldeman Balcer Destroys Mural
    As reported May 20th, 2009 in the Chicago Sun Times, the 11th Ward south side Alderman James Balcer ordered the city’s graffiti blasters to paint over a mural on private property.  This was don...