HOMOPHOBIC VANDALS MAR ART STUDENTS' WORK

(Ed.'s Note: Remember those colorful (and talent-filled) paintings that were created by art students to celebrate the annual Latin Jazz Festival and who donated their work to assist in the now world-renowned celebration? Their work was painted on the walls of the old Capitol Theater across the street from the El Jardin Hotel. That work has now been marred by a graffiti vandal who thinks it is great fun to insult the artists by defacing their work with his tag "NY" and by painting insulting misogynist and homophobic labels on their creations. The cowardly vandal probably did this at night when – like  sneak thief – he didn't have to answer for his act. It's a shame that these students' (and local residents') works have been defaced to serve no purpose at all.)