Covering an Illegal Art Form

The Los Angeles Times’ Orange County Calendar section is supposedly arts, entertainment and TV. Now the public is subjected to an article on graffiti artist Raul Gamboa (“Graffiti Artist Wants Legal Walls to Come Down,” Oct. 2); wonderful coverage for the illegal art form that has infected our cities and freeways in recent times.

Keep up the good work, sending your staff writers out on this type of assignment, and every graffiti artist in the Southland will be scurrying with spray paint in hand to get their picture in The Times. It is wonderful that Raul Gamboa has found an “outlet for all the anger and rage.”

For the past two years I have pleaded for a staff writer and coverage in The Times (for the Cypress Pops Orchestra). My press releases and photographs have continually hit the round file, whether it was for coverage of the Gershwin concert (Sept. 29)or an educational concert (Nov. 13, 1990) for the youth here in north Orange County.

Shame on you, the Los Angeles Times editor who chose to send Zan Dubin out to glorify this type of art, when you continually refuse to give coverage to a valuable art group like the Cypress Pops Orchestra. We the public can continue to read this garbage or we can choose to cancel our Times edition and switch to the other major Orange County newspaper. I have made my decision.

MARIE ORLANDO HALL

President

Cypress Pops Orchestra

Editor’s note: In the past year, The Times has published one feature story on the Cypress Pops Orchestra in the OC LIVE! section, four shorter items in Calendar with news about the group’s activities and public announcements of all the orchestra’s concerts.