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 […]
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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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 […]
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Tattoos with a Cause
Is it time to cover your ex’s initials? Or that Chinese character that does NOT mean double happiness? Lucky for you, Primate Tatu in Eureka is doing $25 cancer ribbon tattoos from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday. Proceeds go to children’s cancer research and treatment. So you’re kind of a jerk if you […]
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Pie vs. Brownie
Have cupcakes had their moment? Is it time for another dessert to step up to the plate? Got a tip about the Very Berry pie at Ferndale Pie Company (543 Main St., Ferndale), specifically the crumb-topped one. (If you have a lead on a favorite dish in Humboldt, now would be a good time for […]
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Smudge Factor
Pastels beat chalk any day. As a medium, pastels have all the artistic cred of oil paint and all the childhood fun of crayons and finger painting combined. Pastels on the Plaza is back in Arcata Saturday — what, already? Yes, the weather this summer threw you off, but it’s October now. Put your hoodie […]
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How You Like Them Apples?
The Apple Harvest Festival in Fortuna pays weekend-long tribute to the humble, versatile, universally loved apple. Right now, someone is objecting and saying he or she hates apples. Wrong. You’re forgetting apple pie, apple-smoked bacon, caramel apples, apple fritters, apple martinis (oh, don’t turn your nose up — we saw you in the ’90s), green […]
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Glue Gun Show
Does this look trashy? Good. The Kinetic Kouture: Fashion with a Re-purpose battle royale is going down at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Eagle House Inn ($10, $7 if you BYO non-disposable cup). In this benefit for the Kinetic Universe, contestants glue, sew, rip and recycle refuse for the runway, hoping to be crowned Trashionista […]
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Truffle Kerfuffle
Well, not really, but it’s fun to say. Brace yourselves, people: Venlo has a new owner. Jonah Ginsburg, a real estate agent at Mikki Moves, saw the listing in the office and decided to buy the Old Town chocolate shop. He says he’s not a chocolatier, but he’s learning. And he’s got help. Manager Ken […]
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‘Tis But Rain
The mud is just making it more medieval. It’s also making admission free. Over at the Excalibur Tournament and Medieval Market Fair next Mad River Hospital, LARPers, jousters, knights, ladies and wenches are still going on with the show. Due to rain, admission is free. Also the jousters are “mud-skiing,” a rare medieval practice about […]