Unless you are made of stone, the news of late has gotten you down. Now would be a good time to get together with your neighbors and get down the right way. Increase the Peace is happening on Saturday, Feb. 1 both at the Jambalaya and Humboldt Brews (donations accepted). The anti-violence fundraiser is a […]
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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Go Fish
Stop talking about the one that got away and get one on record. Saturday Jan. 25 begins the Mad River Steelhead Days, two weeks of fishing-related competition and festivities that run through Feb. 8. Tickets ($35) get you into the whole kettle of fish and register you for the contests, and the proceeds go to […]
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New Recruit
Reviews JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT. It’s been 24 years since novelist Tom Clancy’s hero Jack Ryan debuted on the big screen with young Alec Baldwin in the cold war submarine thriller The Hunt for Red October. Harrison Ford’s iconic portrayals in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger gave way to a wobbly Ben Affleck […]
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Get Ready to Run
Lace up and warm up — Saturday the 25th is the Trinidad to Clam Beach Run. You have another 30 minutes or so to register online, or you can get it done in person between 6-9:15 a.m. just before the 10 a.m. race. If you’ve run it before, you know about the hills, the sand […]
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Humboldt Style
Musician, model, dancer, artist and fashion inventress Lilith, spotted in Old Town, says she “tries to do something different every day.” And she’s not afraid to be outrageous — open toe shoes in January!
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Who All Dunnit?
Feel like a little True Grit meets true crime? Mozy over to the Bayside Grange for the Clark Historical Museum’s third annual Murder Mystery night at 5 p.m. on Saturday ($50). It’s an Old-West-themed event, and a chance to get in full dude drag — you don’t have to, but come on. You know you […]
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Short and Sweet
Movies keep getting longer. Nobody blinks at a 3-hour tour of Middle Earth or Wall Street anymore. Even kids’ movies are epic length, and yet theater seats aren’t any comfier and the drinks at the concessions stands keep growing — a recipe for discomfort and/or disaster. What relief to see the art of short filmmaking […]
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Puffery
Let’s talk about your last chicken pot pie. Was it frozen? Be honest. It’s not your fault — those Stouffer’s commercials make their sandy-crusted flying saucers seem like a homecoming, with the family around the table, the rising steam … They never show the lonely person peering into the oven window or the tragic tongue-burn […]
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The C-word
Lonnie Bruhn is one funny cripple. He uses that particular c-word shortly after he’s clambered onstage with his cane and/or walker. You’ll get over it. Maybe when he extols the virtues of his tricked-out walker — two words: drink holder — or tells the story of rolling it into a strip club. Bruhn, who always […]
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Eye of the Tiger
If you’ve already seen Rocky, you know why you have to go see it on the big screen at the Arcata Theatre Lounge on Friday at 7:30 p.m. ($5). If you haven’t seen it, get thee to the ATL. Don’t be fooled by the flag-draped, big-budget sequels or the winking Grudge Match playing in the […]
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The Whomp to End All Whomps
Maybe you heard — Nocturnum is shutting its doors. The long goodbye ends tonight at 10 p.m. with The Last Whomp; a dozen Nocturnum alumni are taking the stage for a final fete. No cover and no second chances.
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Meet Our New Dogs
Why hello, there! Who’s a rare and largely unstudied South American predator? You are! Don’t bother trying to keep your composure. A pair of bush dog brothers, Mato and Perrito, just moved into the Sequoia Park Zoo. Fewer than 10 American zoos have them, so they’re kind of a big deal. Small (11-18 pounds) and […]