The new outpost of the popular SF ice creamery will feature Oakland-themed flavors exclusive to this location.
Melati Citrawireja
Melati Citrawireja is a writer, photographer and curious thinker about the underbelly of places. She began contributing to Berkeleyside after a summer internship in 2015 and earned a BA in Development Studies in 2016. Her work has also appeared in the East Bay Express, Made Local Magazine, Oakland Magazine, New Sincerity and more. Find her playing with light at Melati Photography.
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Sneak Peek: Gio’s Pizza and Bocce (formerly Giovanni) in Berkeley
The new incarnation of Giovanni pays homage to its past, but with modern updates, an indoor bocce court and a full bar specializing in vermouth and amaro.
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Watch: Baristas craft cappuccinos at Highwire Coffee in Berkeley
In this edition of our short-video series, Handmade East Bay, Melati Citrawireja documents Highwire baristas Reath Ros and John Herr at work.
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Bespoke: Meet Berkeley shoemaker Thomas Wandall
At Resole, his little shop in Berkeley, Thomas Wandall crafts finely made bespoke leather shoes and sandals and keeps an ancient art alive.
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Watch: Local butchers prepare an order for Chez Panisse
In a new short-video series, Handmade East Bay, Melati Citrawireja documents the team at The Local Butcher Shop in Berkeley preparing an order for Alice Waters’ restaurant.
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In Berkeley: A dance company rooted in traditional Balinese legends and wisdom
Talking with Emiko Saraswati Susilo, director of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a Balinese music and dance company tucked unobtrusively into a South Berkeley neighborhood.
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Sara Strong continues her family’s woodworking legacy
As a young child, Strong spent Sundays at her grandfather’s side, watching and learning as he worked in his wood shop.
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Potter Sarah Kersten: Ceramic pieces tell stories
“The way a ceramic piece comes into being is a really nice arc,” says the Berkeley potter. “And I think people also love how when the story is finished they can hold and use these things.”
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Mandy Aftel: A world master of artisan perfume
Mandy Aftel in her Berkeley garden. Photo: Melati Citrawireja Mandy Aftel’s love of perfume is all-encompassing. This verve is apparent in her immaculate collection of 19th-century books on perfumery that fill the nooks of her workspace in North Berkeley. Or, in the way she tends to her rose garden — plants carefully chosen and imported from Turkey — the […]
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Alice Rosenthal: Expert beekeeper, swarm catcher
The local beekeeper is an expert in both beekeeping history and the complexities behind how hives function — Rosenthal truly is a bee whisperer.
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A visit with East Bay textile whisperer Amy Keefer
Keefer working on an embroidery project. Photo: Melati Citrawireja This is the fifth article in our series on expert craftspeople in Berkeley, written and photographed by Melati Citrawireja, a summer 2015 photography intern for Berkeleyside. Don’t miss her stories on St. Hieronymus Press, the workspace of David Lance Goines; Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher and the Pettingell Book Bindery; coppersmith Audel Davis; and […]
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Deepa Natarajan: Ethnobotanist and natural fabric dyer
Deepa and Loka admire their young fig tree. Photo: Melati Citrawireja Deepa picks violas to pound into cloth. Photo: Melati Citrawireja In the fourth part of a series on expert craftspeople in Berkeley, Melati Citrawireja, who was a photography intern with Berkeleyside in summer 2015, visits Deepa Natarajan, a natural fabric dyer and ethnobotanist. (Read Citrawireja’s stories on Klaus-Ullrich […]
