Mysterious boat runs aground at Berkeley Marina
The abandoned boat that drew the attention of waterfront visitors and graffiti artists could finally be cleaned up next week.
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Quick fix: Red Baron artwork saved from the bay, but its future is uncertain
An iconic piece of art — Tyler Hoare's Red Baron sculpture — was saved from the bay Thursday after it collapsed into the waters in Emeryville recently.
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If you listen to the big business lobbyists, you might actually hear them claim that the Bay Area’s higher minimum wage laws will have no impact or might even hurt our communities.
East Bay restaurants adapt to new minimum wage
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Decades on, the man who puts the Red Baron in the bay
For nearly four decades, Berkeley artist Tyler Hoare has been adding a bit of whimsy to the East Bay waterfront with his salvaged wood creations: some 30 large sculptures including airplanes inspired in part by Snoopy comics; a submarine, a pirate ship, a viking ship, and a ‘King Tut ship’ with a gold-painted Egyptian-style figurehead; and, before most of the wood pilings in the water rotted away, spindly, rustic, 6-foot-tall sculptures Hoare calls his “post people.”
