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Rock Steady Crew's Frosty Freeze Dies at 44

Wayne Frost, one of the original Bronx-based Rock Steady Crew and better known as Frosty Freeze, died at Mount Sinai Medical Center late last week at the age of 44; it was not specified of what, just that he had a "long illness". more ›

Style Wars Director Dies

Director of the legendary hip-hop documentary Style Wars, Tony Silver, died last weekend after battling an irreversible brain condition for several years. more ›

The SummerScreen Series

The SummerScreen Series

SummerScreen (you know, like sunscreen) is The L Magazine's addition to the already successful summer of McCarren Park Pool events. more ›

Mayor Bloomberg Hates Graf

Mayor Bloomberg Hates Graf

Mayor Bloomberg proudly announced that since last summer, the city, with the help with many community clean-up crews, have removed 16.3 million square feet of graffiti from 6,241 sites in the city: more ›

Graffiti and the City

Graffiti and the City

Slate takes a look at the release of the DVD for Style Wars, the seminal 1983 documentary about graffiti. The article's writer, Lee Smith, was a "toy," plying his graf in the 70s, and says, "To my mind, the kids who didn't hang out in the subway system just didn't have a proper grasp of what the city was—the range of pleasures and dangers, the expanse of sheer space and urban humanity covered by the trains." more ›

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