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Mauro paints over graffiti; Ross discusses radon testing; Nathan installs closet shelves. Nathan Gilbert shares his love of flea markets, what items he's found, and what he recommends looking for; ...

Artist Carlos Mare (aka Mare 139) explains graffiti in 12 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Carlos explains everything from the simple tags and throwies to how he crafts a masterpiece using ...

A 350-foot-long mural by an artist known as Paes 164 covers the side of a Colorado Springs police station. (Photo: Colorado Springs Mayor’s Office) In Colorado Springs, a conservative town by any ...

Graffiti defaces a mural on Powerhouse Alley near 19th Street in midtown Sacramento on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Daniel Kim [email protected] Like other cities, Sacramento’s not immune to vandalism and ...

Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. I was being an armchair tour guide — out the windows, there’s L.A. Live, and back ...

Caitlin Cook’s “The Writing on the Stall,” a funny, poignant musical now at the Soho Playhouse, is the creative culmination of a decade spent documenting scrawls in public bathrooms. (New York Jewish ...