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When naked people, cheerleaders, fire breathers, motorized couches, Darth Vader and the mayor all get together it can only mean one thing: the annual How Berkeley Can You Be? parade. 

On a brilliant Sunday, around 50 floats and scores of paraders – some wearing elaborate costumes, others wearing nothing at all – began the morning procession at University Avenue and California Street and were as Berkeley as they wanted to be up University to Shattuck Avenue, then south on Center Street to Civic Center Park. 

Revelers and gawkers followed the parade into the park and grooved to the sounds of the Reggae Angels, Ray Obiedo and the Urban Latin Jazz Project and the Fez Tones.