The Facebook page for this past weekend’s cancelled Mad River Summerfest reads like a slow car crash. That queasy feeling began with the announcement of a delay “due to logistical issues” on Friday evening at 7:47 p.m., nearly two hours after The Rezonators were to take the stage. Those issues later turned out to be […]
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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Bone Crusher
Hide your Volvos and Volkswagens — the monster truck show is in town at Redwood Acres.
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Tune Up
Starting Aug. 26, local residents can join the concert and jazz bands through community education classes at College of the Redwoods. If you’ve got some musical chops, you can tune up alongside matriculating students studying the history, skills and general ins and outs of playing in a concert or in the studio. Brian Newkirk is […]
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Pass the Hat
Those on the side of good rally quickly around here. If you missed the fundraiser for Josephine Johnson at Mad River Brewery last Sunday, you can still make a donation to replace her stolen goods here. Just over a week ago, Johnson (she of the guitar, newsboy hat and lovely music) was robbed. Her stuff […]
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Puff Piece
Previously, I had scoffed at cheese puffs (crab or otherwise) as something only a novice would order at an Asian restaurant. When my pregnant friend raved about the little golden triangles, I dismissed it as a hormonal craving. That said, I have tasted the puffs at Annie’s Cambodian Cuisine, and lo, they are good. Crispy, […]
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Fair Game
Who doesn’t love a fair? Rides, games, fried food, livestock, crafts and more fried food. For a brief moment, I felt like I’d covered all that with at Redwood Acres and the rodeo in Fortuna. But the Humboldt County Fair, now in its 117th year, is the mother of them all. It’s on from Aug. […]
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By a Nose
It’s comforting to know that if we were ever completely cut off from the rest of the world, we’d still have good wine up in these parts. The results are in for the wine competition at the Humboldt County Fair, and local grapes are representing. A panel of seven judges picked the winning bottles out […]
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Off the Leash
Your dog loves you, but sometimes it feels like everything is about you: Seeing you out the door, waiting for you to come home, listening to you complain about how someone’s chewed your remote. Let’s not be so self-centered, shall we? Woofstock is back in Halvorsen Park this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. […]
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The Stuff of Legend
Arcata has some characters, all right. And evidently it always has — even before it was Arcata. From Wiyot tribe and the days of the Wild West to pioneering farmers, builders, tie-dyed idealists and immigrant shop owners on the plaza, Arcata is a town of fascinating folks. Easy to forget in the age of Pot […]
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Hands On
Have you been online too long? Are you starting to get that 10-inch stare and a swollen smartphone thumb? Maybe it’s time to get away from the glow of a screen. You know, make something. Maybe go outside. Spend time with actual people. No, Words with Friends doesn’t count. Kick off Arts Alive! early and […]
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Hops Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the annual Hops in Humboldt beer festival on Aug. 24 in Fortuna’s Rohner Park are now on sale through the Hops in Humboldt website and at the Local Beer Bar on Fifth Street in Eureka. Hop to it — they’re $35 pre-sale instead of $40 at the gate. Unless you need to roll […]
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The Big Gift
In the small lab of the Northern California Community Blood Bank, swift hands process and package blood, plasma and platelets while machines shake, spin and freeze the small bags of bodily fluids. This lab next to St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka is the heart of North Coast blood distribution. Here, the workers take in raw, […]