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'I always tell people interested in these issues that your blog is the most important news source, and have had high-ranking corrections officials tell me they read it regularly.' 'the indispensable blog on criminal justice and law enforcement in Texas' 'Grits for Breakfast has done a terrific job covering Texas prison overcrowding issues.' Jim Bethke, Texas Indigent Defense Commission ' I respect the work Scott does and appreciate his thoughtful and extensive coverage of Texas’s criminal justice system' 'the best coverage of criminal justice in the entire state' Grits for Breakfast 'is the best blog about criminal justice in Texas' and 'as usual extremely fair' Scott Henson is 'one of the nation’s finest criminal-justice policy wonks.' Story and installation footage by News 8 Austin as well.Article and installation video, also by the Austin American-Statesman.Photo gallery at the Statesman’s website.Says the Eavesdropper, 'Magda Sayeg, who created the knit sleeves above, is one of Art City Austin's commissioned artists.' Sayeg is affiliated with Knitta Please! But this is an example of illegal art achieving mainstream acceptance, akin philosophically to hiring graffiti artists to paint murals and signage. In this case the knitting was legal, commissioned art. Here's a photo from the Austin Eavesdropper:Īnd here's an East Austin lamppost covered in argyle: So I was pleased to drive down Lamar last week and see knitted coverings of a bunch of odd, supposedly artistic blue metal signs with no messaging that line an underpass around 5th Street. 32′ 45″, W 105 deg.I'd written before about the group Knitta Please! and the challenge that knitted graffiti poses to distinctions between graffiti and art, craft, etc. See for latest updates on road construction and weather-related delays. Turn right on service road, NM 300 (Old Las Vegas Highway), continue for 1 mile. Exit and turn left (north) at the bottom of the off-ramp, go north 1/4 mile to the blinking red light and restaurant. Go north on Interstate 25 (towards Las Vegas, NM) for eight miles to exit #290.

Francis Drive all the way through Santa Fe to the Interstate 25 junction. 285 south to Santa Fe, where it becomes St. Heading south from Taos or Durango: Take U.S. At Interstate 25 junction, continue under I-25, do not get on I-25! Continue north 1/4 mile beyond the underpass to the blinking red light and restaurant. Interstate 40: Exit at Cline’s Corners to U.S. Go north 1/4 mile from off-ramp to the blinking red light and restaurant. Interstate 25: from Albuquerque or Colorado : Exit #290 (U.S 285 south to Cline’s Corners and Eldorado).

Ranchero underpass