As lovely as it sounds to wake up earlier than a special ops squad and be pressed to the glass doors of a big retailer, only to be hip-checked by some aggressive shopper, there are alternatives to Black Friday madness. You could stay home and relax with a hot cup of coffee and a cold […]
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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Santa Stalking
Are you done with your turkey? Good, because Saaaannntaaaaa! A big guy in a red suit isn’t that hard to find, but you do need to know where to look. Santa starts making the rounds in Humboldt this week, so charge your camera, knock back a mug of hot chocolate and go see a man […]
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Stuffed
You know, there are other ways to celebrate Thanksgiving besides watching football and shotgunning gravy. If you’re vegetarian, vegan or vegetari-ish, whip up your best animal-product-free side dish and trot it over to the Humboldt Vegetarian Society’s Thanksgiving potluck at the Humboldt Area Foundation on Sunday Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. (free). It’s sure to […]
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Shroomy
The Humboldt Bay Mycological Society puts the fun in fungi. Its annual mushroom fair is on Sunday Nov. 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, where hundreds of species from the truffle-y to the trippy will be on display ($2, $1 children 10-16, free for kids under 10). Foraging for […]
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Nosh-giving
The planets and the calendars have aligned so that Thanksgiving falls on the same day as the start of Hanukkah. Go ahead, try out some Thanksgiving-Hanukkah hybrid names. “Thanksgiv-ukkah” is winning on the Internet, but follow your gut, because this cosmic convergence of family and feasting traditions won’t happen again for another 70,000 years or […]
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Fieri Sighting!
The spiky-haired version of Where’s Waldo has begun. Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives crew has made camp and is filming over at Paul’s Live from New York in Eureka. The man in the Oakley’s is in the kitchen filming with Paul this very moment. Nobody will say what they’re cooking up back there (my […]
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Here Comes the Judge
Miss seeing Marty L’Herault drive the horse and carriage around Old Town? Catch him on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m on the Investigation Discovery Channel. (Wait, do you have that at home? Make arrangements.) L’Herault, who left us to pursue a career in acting last year, will appear in the “Judge, Jury, and Executioner” […]
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Big Talk
You know that TED Talk you watched and live-tweeted and re-posted and how you wished we could do something like that here? Well, you might have magical powers, because on Sunday Nov. 17 at noon, 22 speakers are taking the stage at the Arcata Theatre Lounge for TEDxYouth@HumboldtBay ($50, $10 for people under 25). It’s […]
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Mr. Humboldt
When somebody puts on a Mr. Humboldt pageant, you go. Beauty pageants are passé (does anybody even protest those things anymore?), but consider the possibilities. Dreads? Flannel? Tattoos? Indie musician or burly lumberjack? Hipster or hip waders? Mountain biker or mountain man? Trim beard or trim job? Go ahead and peruse the candidates, who range […]
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Story Time
Nothing beats a good story, and the weekend is bursting with them. On Friday Nov. 15 at Crush, settle in for Jeff DeMark‘s annual one-man show Writing My Way Out of Adolescence at 8 p.m. ($10, $40 with dinner) and find out how he made it. On Saturday Nov. 16,, take a trip to the […]
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Job Opening at Arcata Main Street
Update: On Nov. 9, Arcata Main Street Board Member Travis Turner emailed a letter of resignation to Neyra and others, in which he alleged misdeeds and said he was looking into the legality of the board’s actions. Turner said, in part: “I feel that you and your company profiting from the Oyster Festival creates a […]
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Real Men Eat Chevre
Umm, we totally ate Truffle Tremor and Lighthouse Grill burgers before they were cool. But we’re still happy to see them getting all famous. Queen Oprah has knighted Cypress Grove’s Truffle Tremor (via the PastoralArtisan.com) as one of her favorite things. You can read about her plans to put it in a “Love Sandwich” for Stedman […]