Alderman Proco Moreno (1st Ward) has sought to keep graffiti taggers away from small businesses by commissioning them to paint designated walls.
We were picking up paper, painting over graffiti and sweeping away glass.
At Waterloo station, he saw some people spray-painting graffiti only steps away from the police.
Harrison tries to erase the drunken fan's graffiti, to scrub away the obscenities.
Others say graffiti never went away, and cleaner subways forced it above ground.
Music that suddenly speaks with the simplicity and directness – and, often enough, the rudeness – of graffiti, can strip away artifice.
Youthful volunteers swept streets, painted fences and curbs, washed away graffiti that read, "Down with Mubarak," and planted bushes in a square many want to turn into a memorial for one of the most stunning uprisings in Arab history.
But the political crisis blew wide open about a week ago when demonstrators took to the streets in Dara'a after the police arrested a group of young people for scrawling antigovernment graffiti, hauling them away without notifying their parents.
Like "Graffiti," "Groove" does away with plot and instead uses its wild-party setting to follow several people who are attending the rave, or trying their best to find it.
