East Bay Bike Party at Cesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina in 2012. Photo: Matt Werner Two local lads — Matt Werner, a Cal English grad who now works at Google, and Joe Sciarrillo who is studying for his masters at Cal — have published a book that embraces many of the Bay Area’s […]
Endless Canvas
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Truly modern: Cocktails, couches, street art, meatballs
On a wet night in an abandoned ink factory, west Berkeley turned into Brooklyn for a few hours, or maybe New York City’s Meatpacking district, with a gathering that included a canvas of wall-to-wall graffiti, cool couches, cocktail waitresses and scrumptious meatballs. The event was the brainchild of Edgar Blazona, owner of True Modern, the […]
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Endless Canvas delivers unique experience to Berkeley
A juxtaposition of two artworks at “Special Delivery Bay Area,” a street art extravaganza in west Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor A juxtaposition of two artworks at “Special Delivery Bay Area,” a street art extravaganza in west Berkeley. Photo: Tracey Taylor Take an abandoned 36,000 sq ft former ink factory with giant circular holes punched in […]
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Street art’s Endless Canvas makes good with community
Artwork in Special Delivery’s art show which drew an estimated 5,000 people to west Berkeley on Sept. 8. Photo: dyannaanfang The organizer of an underground graffiti show that attracted thousands of people to west Berkeley on Sept. 8 has helped ensure that tagging that appeared on many neighborhood buildings after the exhibition has been covered over. […]
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Berkeley buildings defaced after graffiti event
Tagging on the wall of 1360 Fifth Street, home to solar testing lab PVEL. Photo: Tracey Taylor Following an underground graffiti event that drew thousands of people to a vacant west Berkeley warehouse on Saturday, September 8, many buildings in the area were tagged leaving their owners and local residents dismayed. The event, called “Special […]
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Cartoons and comics on display at Berkeley fair
A few years ago Susie Cagle set aside her keyboard and picked up her paintbrush. After years of working as an editor and journalist, Cagle decided to try editorial cartooning, and the results have been remarkable. Her “True Stories in Words and Pictures, “ (the way she describes her narrative cartoons) have run in San […]