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Painted utility boxes bring color to San Diego neighborhood
Yvette Roman sits next to her artwork titled “Títeres.” The painting is on a utility box outside Hilltop Liquor in the San Diego neighborhood of Sherman Heights.
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With few spaces for large murals, artists painted 12 utility boxes on high-traffic streets.
SAN DIEGO
While cleaning out her late grandfather’s garage one afternoon, artist Yvette Roman found random trinkets, mementos and toys he kept in storage over the years. One of those finds, a dusty marionette, became the inspiration behind her latest public artwork.
On the corner of Market and 25th streets in the San Diego neighborhood of Sherman Heights, Roman painted a bright pink utility box surrounded with colorful images of puppets a devil, an old man, the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, a woman with a face mask and skeletons.
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No tolerance for hatred
As residents, home owners, and community members of San Luis Obispo County, we are upset, but not shocked, by the tragic hate crime perpetrated on the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity on the Cal Poly campus. The hate crimes on the campus are ongoing, a cyclical targeting of one group after another who claim individual and/or intersectional identities of female, Jewish, Muslim, Black, LGBTQ-plus, and non-majority identities.
It is common knowledge that a swastika is the symbol used to represent the Nazi party. The wider implications of the sign are terrifying and go far beyond symbolic signaling: Its use is a crime of the most severe degree against these individuals and our collective humanity. We call for local and federal authorities to treat this occurrence for what it is an