Normally when you drink outside in Old Town, a cop or a concerned friend up and takes your paper bag away. Not this weekend — at least not at the F Street Beer Festival ($5, 21 and over, or 14 and under with an adult). The Local, Humboldt Beer Works and the Humboldt Bay Tourism […]
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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Fieri Bomb
A Guy Fieri sighting ranks right up there with a blurry Bigfoot photo up in these parts, and it looks like we’re due for another one in November. A Guy Fieri sighting, that is. The Humboldt Beacon reports that the Food Network host is bringing his sunny smile and dark roots up to his hometown […]
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No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Stuffed pizza tends to let you down while doubling your carbs. This is partly because the bubbly exposed cheese doesn’t happen and the sauce stays too wet. The Brooklyn at Paul’s Live from New York (604 F St. Eureka) does not fall into this trap, mainly because it is — shhhh! — not really a […]
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North Country Therapy
Right now, a small, grumpy and unpleasantly practical cluster of synapses in your brain is thinking about skipping the North Country Fair this year. It’s too crowded, parking is crazy and we have errands to do, it whines. Don’t listen. Your brain is not in possession of all the facts. For one thing, Saturday kicks […]
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Come on Down!
Cleveland will be in the house when game show host and improve impresario Drew Carey stands up at the Van Duzer Friday night at 8 p.m. ($45 or $15 for HSU students). In the years since Whose Line is it Anyway? and The Drew Carey Show, he’s trimmed down and lost the high-and-tight, but he’s […]
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Pie in the Sky
Sure, Walk the Line was nominated for five Oscars, but wouldn’t it be even better with pie? Ever hear Johnny Cash’s “Pie in the Sky?” A nice, big piece of pie (with black coffee) is the perfect accompaniment to the music of the Man in Black. Get it one piece at a time at the […]
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Old School Art
If you’re looking for some art but can’t wait for Arts! Arcata tomorrow night, you could head over to Humboldt State University for the opening of “HSU Art Department: Then.” The exhibit, over in the Reese Bullen Gallery, features work from faculty who go back all the way to 1914 and taught up to 1966. […]
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Sympathy for the Leakers
Hey, look! Greg King, longtime environmental activist and current executive director of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy, has a letter in the Mailbox section of this week’s New Yorker magazine. In the letter, King comments on Steve Coll’s article about the persecution of New York Times journalist James Risen, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Read the […]
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A Moveable Feast
Tragically, the lure of delicately battered fish and chips might keep one from trying the mashed potato cone ($5) at the Lighthouse Grill. There you are at the edge of the sea, salt air, outdoor seating — can you really order a land-locked menu item? Yes. Yes, you can. This is not some state fair […]
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Feel the Rainbow!
Ditch your gloomy black threads, people, and throw on some color for the glitter-bomb that is the 21st Humboldt Pride Parade & Festival. It’s been a big year, what with Prop 8 and DoMA taking a dirt nap, and organizers are giving a shout-out to family, friends and supporters with this year’s theme: “The Year […]
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Dimmick Ranch Sold
The Dimmick Ranch, the foreclosed battlefield on which Reggae Rising made its last stand against Reggae on the River, has finally sold. J.J. Hanley, a San Francisco tech industry businessman, signed papers for the property on Aug. 30, along with five partners, Ben Bleiman, Duncan Ley, Mark DeVito, Matt Klyce and Mike Naugle (all of […]
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Dig in
The best thing about the local food movement is how it lends political, nay, moral weight to indulging in the pleasures of eating. Get ready for some righteous noshing, because September is Local Food Month! All over Humboldt this month, everybody and their local farmer is putting on some sort of event to help us […]