Given our collective scientific knowledge and culinary skill — and here I mean the “we” of humanity — should we not have adjusted our flour and fat ratios, balanced our spices, determined the proper slice dimensions and cooking temperature to have already, some 700 years into baking variations of it, arrived at The Apple Pie? […]
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the managing editor of the North Coast Journal. She won the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2020 Best Food Writing Award and the 2019 California News Publisher's Association award for Best Writing.
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Reclaiming the Klamath, Blue Lake Recall and Birding at Sea
This week we’re sharing a story from Underscore Native News about Indigenous youth paddling down the undammed Klamath River in a celebration of historic restoration. We’ve also got an update on the recall effort in the city of Blue Lake and what it means for the embattled city council going forward. Finally, take an ocean […]
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Photos: Best of Party People
After a night of revelry, the lights went up again at the Arcata Theater Lounge on Friday, Aug. 8, and the winners of the North Coast Journal Best of Humboldt awards sauntered off to enjoy their collective reign. The Shooting Gallery (Best Photographer, incidentally) was on hand snapping the best in their best that evening. […]
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The Dreamy Terror of Weapons
WEAPONS. There is a moment in the highly anticipated horror movie Weapons when Josh Brolin, playing a distraught father asleep in the bedroom of his missing son, wanders in a weird, mysterious dream that claws at his grief and ends with a grotesque shock that jolts him awake. Scrambling at the covers, he shouts, “What […]
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Best of Humboldt and Crabs Baseball
The votes have been tallied and the Best of Humboldt issue is here, so we’re taking a look at this year’s winners. And after a heartbreaking championship series, we’ve got Player of the Year picks for our Humboldt Crabs. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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Theater in Prison and Owl Controversy
This week we’re looking at Dell’Arte’s theater program at Pelican Bay State Prison, the subject of a new documentary. We’ve also got an update on the Barred Owl culling plan to save the Northern Spotted Owl for extinction, which is now itself under threat. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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‘I am an Artist’
As the film opens, men trickle into Pelican Bay State Prison’s B-facility gym to take their places in a wide circle of folding chairs, and Samuel Nault’s even voice plays over the footage: “We are all creators, every single one of us. It is the chaos and pain that we created which ultimately brought us […]
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What’s Good: Ice Cream Sandwich Edition
I have had some good days playing hooky. An easy top-five entry is the afternoon I spent with a dear friend on a park bench facing the water, eating vanilla ice cream sandwiches, the wax wrappers moving gently in the breeze. In the last summers of the 1800s, some genius in New York City swapped […]
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The Superman of Our Time
SUPERMAN. As a kid, I imprinted on Christopher Reeve’s Superman like a baby chick. And when, in my 20s, I saw him in a trench coat on a Metro North train, tossing a patient if perfunctory grin at a drunk shouting, “Superman!” across the car, my attachment felt vindicated. Whether David Corenswet carries the mantle […]
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Symphonies and Blue Lake’s Quandaries
This week, Setlist columnist Collin Yeo joins us to talk about Carol Jacobson of the Eureka Symphony and his story about how both have enriched our community’s music scene. Then we’ve got an update on the Blue Lake City Council recall, which could leave remaining members unable to fill its ranks. Hit subscribe for weekly […]
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Blood Drive Dinners and Changes to Megan’s Law Registry
This week we’re looking at why a law is allowing sex offenders to petition for removal from California’s online registry, and how one survivor is fighting to change that. We’ve also got a story about how the North Coast Community Blood Bank is using food to remove barriers to donation and turning it into an […]
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Back in the Fight for The Old Guard 2
THE OLD GUARD 2. Recent rewatching of 1980s American action movies (don’t judge me — we all have demons) had reminded me how little we moviegoers once expected. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bulk (sub-Marvel on today’s market) and enough uninterrupted gunfire to become its own variety of white noise was enough for action movie fans to give […]