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		<title>Art on the streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Portland&#8217;s reputation for attracting artists, I&#8217;ve yet to encounter an abundance of street art depicting this level of flair and creativity. Maybe I don&#8217;t get around enough, but I mostly encounter incomprehensible graffiti. Much is gang messaging, a defacement uglier and longer lasting than cats peeing to mark their territory. Some people are trying, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graffiti and the Fartinator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graffiti fascinates me. It&#8217;s hard to miss in Portland, especially east of the Willamette River where I live. Some is artistic. Most is illegible, as if space aliens scrawl communiques at night, unaware that their writings generally make no sense to Earthlings. And defacing property, no matter the creativity involved, is a crime costing major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choirboy Graffiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, graffiti I can read. And it&#8217;s not only legible but painted in a flamboyant cursive script, conveys a simple but powerful admonition, and is brazenly displayed in the heart of one of Portland&#8217;s most-tagged neighborhoods. Maybe it&#8217;s decorated the red-mesh fence along North Williams Avenue at Northeast Shaver Street for a long time and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Amid Gibberish</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider me an accidental archeologist of urban blight. No academic journal will record my find yesterday during a trek through part of Portland where I don&#8217;t normally walk. But the thrill of discovery is reward enough. I was retrieving my car, in the shop for overdue maintenance. I turned onto NE Everett off Grand after [...]]]></description>
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