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How Quirky is Berkeley? The rising star of muralist Angel Jesus Perez

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell July 23, 2018, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Angel Jesus Perez, whose latest work, “Displacement of Beauty and Migration of Gentrification,” is on Alcatraz, is a bright addition to our city’s cadre of muralists.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? Doors

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell Oct. 23, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

You will see far more fancifully painted doors in Berkeley than in most cities. Here are just a few of them.

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How quirky is Berkeley? Sheri Tharp’s carved picket fence

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell Oct. 09, 2017, 11:30 a.m.February 8, 2023

In the 1990s, Sheri Tharp saw a wooden picket designed by Charles Sayers in 1942. She liked it so much she and her students carved a few, and now her house has a fence.

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How Quirky was Berkeley? The Artistic Legacy of Martin Metal

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell Oct. 02, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Glimpses of the magnificent sculptures and metal pieces can still be glimpsed around Berkeley.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? Mark Bulwinkle’s tiles.

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell Sept. 19, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Mark Bulwinkle is best known for his metal work, but he is also a prolific tile maker. Check out the restrooms in the Mad Monk Media Center for Anachronistic Media for a glimpse.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? Ron and Abbey’s muffler men

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell Sept. 06, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Over the years, Ron Hulse and those working in his automotive shop have built creative metal statues from discarded automobile mufflers.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? Rogue little free libraries

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell May 01, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Little Free Library is an international organization that started in 2009 and there are dozens of its little libraries in Berkeley. There are also quite a few unofficial ones.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? New murals, 2017 edition

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell April 11, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Murals are a fixture of Berkeley, but they come and go. Here is a selection that appeared last year and thus far in 2017.

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How Quirky was Berkeley? Ken Stein’s Berkeley buttons

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell March 31, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Ken Stein’s collection of several thousand political buttons tell a compelling tale of Berkeley’s contempoarary history.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? Relief sculpture

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell March 24, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

There is a lot of bas relief sculpture in Berkeley and almost all of it is quite beautiful. Here’s a look at just some the gems that we may often walk right by without noticing.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? In praise of bungalow courts

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell March 21, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

Berkeley’s bungalow courts have strikingly different characters, but they are all undeniably, incontrovertibly, inexorably, and intrinsically quirky.

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How Quirky is Berkeley? Ken Stein’s souvenir spoon collection

Avatar photo by Tom Dalzell Feb. 27, 2017, 7:00 a.m.February 8, 2023

One of Ken Stein’s several collections is of Berkeley-themed souvenir spoons, most of which date from the 1890s through the 1910s.

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