Author Archive
May 30, 2016 by tomdalzell
Communist Labor Party
In the 1970s, while still in the Salinas Valley, Art Moura was briefly drawn to the Communist Labor Party. I too was in the Salinas Valley at the time, working with the United Farm Workers. I knew the RU (Revolutionary Union) slash RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party), mostly Bruce Neuburger. He was a presence in […]
May 29, 2016 by tomdalzell
Mykael Moss: Photos of Bumper Stickers
The National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count is a census of birds. The Count is performed annually in the winter by volunteer birdwatchers. The purpose is to provide population data for use in science. In the same vein, this is a Berkeley Bumper sticker census taken in 2016 by Mykael Moss. We in Berkeley […]
May 28, 2016 by tomdalzell
Lanesplitter Family Action Figures (Dolls Can Be Quirky AF)
My daughter Charlotte is a freshman at Berkeley High. When the mood strikes her, she will pass on slang that she hears at school. If I should use that slang, however, it is a different story. Not cool! Thus it was with “AF.” She told me. I use it once in a while, ironically. She […]
May 21, 2016 by tomdalzell
Bulwinkle Tiles
It is no secret – I am gaga about all of Mark Bulwinkle’s art. No exceptions. All of it. I have posted on his steel and metal work, his steel work with children at Malcolm X School, his new work at the old Cody’s, and his painted walls. Now: tiles. Above are tiles in the restrooms […]
May 21, 2016 by tomdalzell
Berkeley Library Benefit Walk: Sunday, May 15, 2016
It was a perfect Sunday afternoon. Blue sky. Warm-ish. A good group of hardcore Berkeley-lovers. Walking together and talking. A benefit for the library. Perfect! We started at Live Oak Park and walked slightly west on Berryman. At 2033 Berryman we saw this topiary giraffe. I cover the quirky topiary of Berkeley in this […]
May 16, 2016 by tomdalzell
Field Trip to Sebastopol – Amiot/Laurent Junk Art
It is a holiday, so time for another field trip. The City of Berkeley celebrates Malcolm X today. I celebrate the 100th anniversary of my father’s birth. For this field trip, we will go to Sebastopol. We have seen the work of Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent in these pages. We saw the dog […]
May 16, 2016 by tomdalzell
100 Years Ago
My father was born 100 years ago today, on May 16, 1916, in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We always called him Dick. Never anything else. My Aunt Fifi took this photo on my father’s 60th birthday in the backyard of my parents’ home in Yuba City – May 16, 1976. They had moved from Bryn […]
May 15, 2016 by tomdalzell
Post-It Art on Milvia
Driving south on Milvia, as you cross University you may have seen the post-it art on the windows of the second and fourth floors. The building once housed Vista Community College and the City’s permits office. Ace Hardware is in the process of moving into the street level. It is the Tioga Building, built in 1952, […]
May 8, 2016 by tomdalzell
Field Trip – San Jose – Cevan Forristt – WOW again
It is Mother’s Day – a holiday – and so we will take a holiday field trip, a relatively new Quirky Berkeley tradition. Part 2 of the Marcia Donahue-led Quirky Berkeley Field Trip to San Jose was seeing the garden and home of Cevan Forristt. He doesn’t live far from Ted Fullwood. His is an […]
May 7, 2016 by tomdalzell