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Ray Patlán, muralist and mayor of SF’s Balmy Alley, dies at 77
Raymond Michael Patlán, an internationally esteemed Chicano muralist once dubbed mayor of San Francisco’s Balmy Alley, died on April 15 in Oakland. He was 77. Friends remember Patlán as a “dynamic force.” His powerful, politically outspoken murals about labor, the Central American crisis and inequality have not only adorned the walls of the Mission District […]
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