Some Halloween fun is for grown-ups — and no, we’re not talking about skimpy costumes. Sometimes we’re looking for a good scare. The Kinetic Lab of Horrors is back again this year with sculptural arts and body parts. The freaky lab techs take you on a tour of the facilities on Eighth and N in […]
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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Wild Ideas
Why aren’t we done with philosophy? After thousands of years and a parade of togas, cravats and very tight updos, haven’t we pretty much covered humanity’s questions? Maybe. But given the fuss a controversial mind like Peter Singer‘s can still raise, probably not. The author of Animal Liberation and The Way We Eat: Why Our […]
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Oompah
The Teutonic hedonists who came up with schadenfreude and the autobahn knew we needed a little something in the fall — a chance to appreciate the season before the big holidays swoop in. They also knew we needed beer. Shake out your lederhosen, volks, it’s Oktoberfest. On Saturday in Rohner Park from 11 a.m. to […]
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Two New Owners for 3 Foods Café
If you’ve been scrolling through Craigslist in hopes of buying 3 Foods Café in Arcata, you’re too late. New owners Jennifer Shipman and Laura Duttweiler beat you to it, and no, they didn’t buy it online. Escrow closed on Friday, and the place itself will only close (fingers crossed) from Oct. 21 to Oct. 24. […]
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Moondance
On Friday night, when that gorgeous harvest moon is shining in the night sky, you’ll wish you were out at a barn dance celebrating. And you could be! Blue Lake Harvest Days kick off under Dell’Arte’s big top tent with Colin Vance and the Striped Pig String Band. Just mosey over to the Blue Lake […]
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Silence!
Anybody else a little burned out on CG and 3D at the movies? Feel like you’re one Dolby sound check away from a burst eardrum? It might be time for a special effects break. The ArMack Orchestra fundraiser at Arcata High this Thursday, Friday and Saturday is just the ticket ($5). The students are showing […]
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Cooler
You will never be as cool as Reggie Watts. Sorry — hard truth. Your best bet is to bask in the glow of his reflected cool by seeing him do his stand-up/hip-hop improv/performance art thing at the Van Duzer next Thursday, Oct. 17, at 8 p.m. ($45, $15 HSU students). Watts could have become a […]
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Ten-foot Inflatable Puppy Coming to Old Town
Who’s a provocative anti-cruelty demonstrator? You are! Yes, you are! Mercy for Animals is bringing this cuddly weenie to F and Second streets on Monday at 11 a.m. It’s part of the group’s “Why Love One but Eat the Other” campaign. Look, here he is at the Alamo! He comes with organizers, vegetarian literature and […]
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Let Them Eat Cake
Tired of people getting handouts? Feel like the Co-op has gone corporate? Shut your cake hole. With cake. Free cake. At the Co-op. It’s celebrating its 40th birthday on Friday by handing out cake from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m at both the Eureka and Arcata shops. Tough to stick to your political principles in […]
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Roll Big
You love sushi, right? And yet, now and then when everybody wants to go for rolls, you slump a little. What is that? It’s hunger. You are starving, and as much as you’d love a delicate sprinkling of tobiko over a pristine cube of tuna, you just don’t have the bank account to fill your […]
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Heavenly Bodies
Skeletons decorated with jewels in their eye sockets, crowns of golden leaves on their fissured skulls and pearl-encrusted filigree on their ribs pose in glass cases. These are skeletons that the Catholic Church sent out in the 1500s to replenish the relics destroyed by Protestants, as well as to bolster faith in the German-speaking regions […]
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Hot Enough For Ya?
Behold salsa: fresh, piquant and colorful, savior of bland dishes, the lone healthy food on the game-day buffet. And salsa contains multitudes — spicy, fruity; just think where an adventurous chef and a curious child might go with it. Better yet, find out. At noon on Saturday, follow the sound of crunching chips and veggies […]