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Berkeley’s 1923 fire, 100 years later | At 28, he died on Berkeley’s streets | House with famed communal hot tub up for sale

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Andrew Gilbert

Freelancer Andrew Gilbert writes a weekly music column for Berkeleyside. Andy, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, covers a wide range of musical cultures, from Brazil and Mali to India and Ireland. A Berkeley-based writer, he contributes features on jazz and international music to numerous publications, including the San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times and Los Angeles Times. His column covering the Bay Area dance scene, Dance Card, runs monthly in the Contra Costa Times. And his CD reviews air regularly on KQED’s “California Report.”

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A stylized illustration of a young unhoused woman with almond-shaped eyes, windswept hair and a beanie holding a "Please Help" sign. She's flanked by a bureaucrat holding a notebook that says SF.gov and a TV personality in swanky clothes holding a microphone. At the bottom are tents.
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Free musical in Berkeley park takes on homelessness and hot-take media

Avatar photo by Andrew Gilbert June 30, 2023, 9:18 a.m.June 30, 2023

San Francisco Mime Troupe’s play ‘Breakdown — A New Musical’ is coming to Cedar Rose Park this weekend. It will be in Live Oak Park in late July.

A child drawing with a marker on paper, their back turned to the camera. A "Let's Paint sign is on the table.
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Around Berkeley: La Peña block party, avian dance, ‘Angels, Devils and Drunks’

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert June 29, 2023, 10:41 a.m.June 29, 2023

Other events include a pride celebration in Downtown Berkeley, a mural painting party and a performance of “A Room with a View’ at John Hinkel Park.

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Around Berkeley: Music & science exhibit at The Lawrence, doggy pride parade, low-tide nature walk

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert June 22, 2023, 11:57 a.m.June 23, 2023

Other events include a punk book talk at 924 Gilman, a mobile children’s museum, and a triple bill of California country music at Freight & Salvage.

Murray, a Black man wearing a suit against an all-black backdrop, plays the saxophone, his eyes closed in concentration
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Jazz musician David Murray returns to Berkeley, where he first played sax at church in 1965

Avatar photo by Andrew Gilbert June 20, 2023, 12:30 p.m.June 21, 2023

Fifty-eight years after a pastor at the Missionary Church of God in Christ urged him to play sax for the first time, Murray will perform at the Back Room on Friday.

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Around Berkeley: A play set under the I-580 overpass, R&B in the park, tiled blue photo prints

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert June 15, 2023, 11:04 a.m.June 15, 2023

Other events include a free outdoor movie showing in Live Oak Park and a cheese and wine party at Alliance Française de Berkeley.

A dancer in colorful clothes stands with arms raised on a city street with people behind her in folding chairs and a raised umbrella
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Where to celebrate and honor Juneteenth in Berkeley and beyond

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Azucena Rasilla and Andrew Gilbert June 13, 2023, 2:51 p.m.June 14, 2023

Berkeley has hosted a Juneteenth festival since 1986. Other events this week include a choral celebration at Oakland’s New Destiny Church and free entrance to EBRPD parks.

A young child in a science classroom performs an experiment with graduated cylinders full of colorful liquid as an adult watches.
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Around Berkeley: Celebrate Pride, Science Fundays, Bay Curious

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert June 08, 2023, 10:45 a.m.September 22, 2023

Other events in Berkeley include a new collection show at BAMPFA, a 3-on-3 Youth Basketball Tournament and pre-World War II Parisian café music.

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Around Berkeley: Geologic history talk, Berkeley Symphony concert, old-timey bluegrass

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert June 01, 2023, 8:42 a.m.June 1, 2023

Other events in Berkeley include an ABBA-themed disco and a performance by Grammy-winning Tuareg musicians.

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Vitamin Em’s free downtown concert on Saturday will support Berkeley’s unhoused residents

Avatar photo by Andrew Gilbert May 31, 2023, 11:58 a.m.June 1, 2023

The Civic Center Park concert benefitting the Dorothy Day House will include songs inspired by Lizzo, and by a gifted musician who became addicted to heroin and died in the Tenderloin.

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Sing along with Bobby McFerrin in Berkeley this Monday

Avatar photo by Andrew Gilbert May 19, 2023, 9:35 a.m.May 19, 2023

The 10-time Grammy winner has been leading Monday gatherings at Freight & Salvage that are part performance, part open mic and all play. 

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Around Berkeley: Himalayan Fair, bike to work, Green Home Tour

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Iris Kwok and Andrew Gilbert May 18, 2023, 9:44 a.m.May 31, 2023

Other events include Scottish fiddling at Freight & Salvage and a cooking demo at the Downtown Berkeley Farmers Market.

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6 dozen Scottish fiddlers are playing together at Freight & Salvage Friday

Avatar photo by Andrew Gilbert May 16, 2023, 10:37 a.m.May 16, 2023

Led by maestro Alasdair Fraser, the pied-piper of traditional Scottish music, the multi-generational throng of fiddlers includes a Berkeley heart doctor.

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