http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/03/graffiti-public-art-worth-funding/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/03/graffiti-public-art-worth-funding/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:26:57 +0000 Jeremy Abernathy http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=15940 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/03/graffiti-public-art-worth-funding/feed/ 1 Have foundations like Artadia considered street art as a grant-worthy alternative? http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/witness-cops-target-cabbagetown-muralists/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/witness-cops-target-cabbagetown-muralists/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:15:58 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/witness-cops-target-cabbagetown-muralists/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/witness-cops-target-cabbagetown-muralists/feed/ 2 The week after two taggers and the man who attacked them reached a peaceful resolution over the highly charged issue of how much graffiti is too much in Cabbagetown, tensions in the neighborhood flared again. This time, it was Atlanta police who cracked down. At around 2:30 a.m. this morning, muralists with an out-of-state art collective called [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/everything-cool-between-taggers-man-in-tree/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/everything-cool-between-taggers-man-in-tree/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:45:21 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/everything-cool-between-taggers-man-in-tree/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/everything-cool-between-taggers-man-in-tree/feed/ 1 After this week’s story about the tensions between Cabbagetown residents and local graffiti artists went to press, we learned that the man ticketed by police for hiding in a tree and pouncing on two taggers has made amends with them. The man, Rodney Bowman, was ticketed for disorderly conduct after he jumped from the tree at [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/03/whacko-attacks-graffiti-artists/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/03/whacko-attacks-graffiti-artists/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:04 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/03/whacko-attacks-graffiti-artists/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/03/whacko-attacks-graffiti-artists/feed/ 15 The AJC reports today on a man who hid in a tree near the Krog Street tunnel over the weekend and ambushed two young graffiti artists. The man, 43-year-old Rodney Bowman, apparently flipped out and punched one of the “vandals” twice in the face, a police report states. One of the men, 21-year-old Jesse Jaeger, is [...]