After the oil paintings on the walls of the old Capitol Theater painted by volunteer art students and local artists during last year's Latin Jazz Festival were defaced by vandals, the painters – this time with chalk – were at it again.
"We're not going to let defacers like who come int eh middle of the night like sneak thieves destroy our spirit," said one of the students. we want the people to enjoy our art and we're doing them in chalk this time to take away their perverted pleasure of destroying things."
Last year, vandals defaced the paintings with red spray paint and wrote homophobic slurs on the male figures and "No" on others. When the students came back and restored them, the anonymous vandals came back and used a sharp point to scratch them.
On Sunday, the Capitol Theater on Levee Street is the site of the a free street concert featuring this year's Latin Jazz stars. There is no cover. Tonight the festival features a free concert on Adams Street by the Market Square fountain, also without a cover charge.
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Defacing things seems to be a local pastime. Sometimes it is art, sometimes it is monuments. We seem to have our fair share of vandals.
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