Get your oars in the water for Paddlefest on Saturday, Sept. 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (some classes and tours start at 9:30 a.m.) at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center (free entry, classes $5-$10). It’s a lovely day on the bay for learning to stand-up paddleboard, honing your kayak skills, maybe touring some […]
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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Bucolic Frolic
The Scots have given us so much: Scotch, golf, deep-fried Mars bars and the original Bond. Their tartan-wrapped gifts keep on giving this weekend in Fortuna. Och! Time again for the North Coast Scottish Society’s Frolic in the Glen on Saturday, Sept. 6 in Rohner Park (free). The Humboldt Highlanders Pipes and Drums blow it […]
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Pump Your Brakes
Why speed when you can slow down and let the people get a good look? During Cruz’n Eureka, the white-walled, chrome-plated annual fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods, drivers will be showing off their wheels all over town (free attendance). The weekend starts early on Thursday, Sept. 4, with a poker […]
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Where There’s Smoke
Are you still recovering from Hops in Humboldt? Try a hair of the dog that bit you over at the Mateel Community Center and its SoHum Brew Fest and Barbecue Smoke-off on Sunday, Aug. 31 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. ($25 all-inclusive ticket, $10 barbecue and music only). Instead of slaving over the coals […]
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Hum Plate Roundup
A good meal under $10 is a frugal find, and the legwork, trial and error it takes to find one can give you a tummy ache. Now that the students are back in town, it’s easier to just follow the crowds between classes to the dining deals. It’s not like you’re looking at someone else’s […]
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Weeell, Isn’t That Special?
If you remember the heady days of ’80s stand-up (black blazer, light jeans, big sneakers), then Saturday Night Live alum Dana Carvey likely sent some kind of beverage out your nose. See him grab the mic again at the Van Duzer Theater on Thursday, Aug. 28, at 8 p.m. ($65, $25 HSU students). On SNL, […]
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College Cuisine
Virginia Woolf once said that one cannot study well, party well or love well if one has not eaten well. Maybe she didn’t say it exactly that way, but you get the point. Yet our student years are often the nadir of our gastronomic Bell curve, a time when haste, thrift and general lack of […]
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Summer of Woof
Have you been spending the summer sniffing around the same old places and running with your usual pack? Get out and see some other dogs. Take your people to Halvorsen Park for Woofstock on Saturday, Aug. 9 at 10 a.m. ($12). Make puppy eyes and get them to spring for the Mutt Strut parade at […]
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Best Hot Dog
Runner Up: Humboldt Hot Dogs OK, you can’t argue with the value. At $1.50 with a soft drink, the hefty hot dog or Polish at Costco (girth is important, too) is the deal to end all processed meat deals. And it’s pretty good — a salty, juicy dog with the zippy tang of nitrates. But […]
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Best Festival
Runner Up: Oyster Fest Was it the fence? Are you still mad? Because Oyster Fest used to own this category. Then again, Kinetic is one tough, splashy competitor, blending humor, art, engineering, feats of physical fitness, rubbernecking and a good deal of welding in one weekend of daredevil parading. And teams do spend months and […]
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Hum Plate Roundup
Book club always descends into eating and drinking anyway, so let’s skip to the last page and eat. Here are the Cliff’s Notes to our recent romances, mysteries and adventures. Tandoori Do-over Chatter on the wire sent us to Tandoori Bites, the Indian place across from McDonald’s formerly known as the Indian place across from […]