Set aside a couple of hours to go through your closet (don’t get stuck in there, honey), get your hair did and sashay into Humboldt Brews on Friday, April 4 at 9:30 p.m. as the most sparkle-tastic version of yourself for Drag Wars ($5). You may want to think about a stage name. Competing newbie […]
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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Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
I only ever see the plumes of smoke shooting up from the behemoth of a barbecue stand at the Eureka Veterans Hall when I’ve already eaten. So when we drove by last week on the way to lunch, I hollered at my colleague to pull over, which she did, Transporter style. Bracing. There are no […]
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Island Buzz
Check out this morning’s NPR segment on Future Islands, a North Carolina indie band fresh from SXSW and slated for an April 7 show at Humboldt Brews ($10). The band killed it on Letterman, so get to Hum Brews early and catch them at the smallest, cheapest show they’ll probably be playing for some time.
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#tasteofmain
That little packet of Taste of Main Street tickets is a challenge. It’s a gauntlet of 26 eateries … not that you have anything to prove. But it’s like a trip to Disneyland — all that pressure to hit the big rides and still make it back to the car without anybody passed out or […]
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Aloooo-ha!
Thank you, Winter, that will be all. We’re done here. We are tossing the wool socks and sweaters. In fact, some of us are even jumping the gun and going straight into summer — a flash of sun and suddenly people are in cut-offs and flip-flops. Daylight savings? Pfft. We are on island time. If […]
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Coffee or T and A?
Prepare for sudden stops, turns and slow-downs on Fourth Street in Eureka. Humboldt locals Michael Williams and Tao Chan are resurrecting that little drive-thru kiosk shop (Mary Hana’s florist/juice bar/Indian take-out, Nikki’s Crab Stand) as Bikini Brews, a java pitstop with scantily clad baristas and Muddy Waters coffee. Sure, roll your eyes, but the Tip […]
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Hum Plate Roundup
The cherry blossoms drifting around town are seen in Japan as a symbol of life’s impermanence, all the more beautiful for their brevity. Just like crab sandwiches and specialty doughnuts. Carpe Crab When crab season opens during the holidays, we go wild, cracking and picking till our shirtfronts are flecked with meat and our bellies […]
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Eat and Run
From the moment you get your passbook for Taste of Main Street ($25) on Thursday, March 27 — which you should do sooner rather than later — you are planning your assault on Old Town in your head. Some of us on paper. Some of us like Churchill in the bunker moving model ships and […]
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Loleta Bakery Closed
The Loleta Bakery has closed its doors, at least for now, due to a serious illness in the family. Over the phone, Linnea Hill, who ran the bakery with her mother, owner Jeanne van der Zee, said, “We’re so sad. Our reasons have to do with personal family illness and that’s where we need to […]
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‘Tis a Wee Cupcake
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a little. Really little. This leprechaun-sized Guinness cupcake from Ramone’s ($1.25) is moist and chocolatey, with a hint of stout and a fluffy dollop of buttercream. And you can always share it.
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Drink Me, I’m Irish
Put down that Redi-wip and Bailey’s. The good folks at Gallagher’s showed us how to make a proper Irish coffee for St. Patrick’s Day. Or Monday. Remember: real, fresh whipped cream, unsweetened. And don’t skimp on the whiskey — a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but it won’t cover the taste of […]
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Old Ale, New Tricks
The Local Beer Bar is celebrating its second birthday on Saturday by releasing an anniversary ale whipped up with Eel River Brewery — a vanilla eisbier aptly named Stop, Collaborate and Listen (price TBA). Why? Because it’s iced, iced, baby. What? We were all thinking it. And in one of the most scandalous abuses of […]