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Blightseeing: Down by the L.A. Riverside

Life in Angel City
Riverside Bike Path

Ride along the Glendale Narrows Bike Path to its southern terminus, and you’ll find these colorful, life-size scribblings “decorating” a Golden State Freeway overpass of the L.A. River.
Similar graffiti graces another bridge approach just beyond the bikeway (left).
So how should we label these taggings? Guerilla art or urban blight?
To me, graffiti is like a paisley [...]

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Blightseeing: Curbed Sofas in Echo Park

Life in Angel City
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Don’t you just hate when someone decides to redecorate your neighborhood streets with their tired, worn-out furnishings? (All the more so when they take up precious parking space…)

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