When Jean Morgan, who goes by Morgan, came back into her bedroom after a morning cup of coffee last week, her partner of 10 years, Tina, was crying. Tina had been up all night awaiting the Supreme Court’s decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, and Morgan thought the court must […]
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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Patriotic Party Circuit
If we hadn’t thrown off the shackles of British tyranny, there’d be butter on all our sandwiches, sweaters would be jumpers, The Office would have ended ages ago and we’d have nothing to do on the Fourth of July. Lucky for us, we get to commemorate breaking up with the monarchy (we did it in […]
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Down with the Kids
We’re only a couple of weeks into summer vacation, but the kids are already bouncing off the walls. The fair last weekend has either set their entertainment expectations too high or left them in a post-cotton-candy stupor. Fourth of July festivities are just around the corner, but you’ve got to get through this weekend first […]
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Marimba!
When Nancy Zeltsman meets someone, on an airplane, for example, and says that she’s a marimba player, “the next question is always, ‘What’s that?’” She usually answers that it’s like a giant bass xylophone, since everyone is at least familiar with the toy version, even if the reference only calls to mind “the music behind […]
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Stake-out
The wooden stakes planted in the Manila dunes are gone again, spurned as an un-sanctioned environmental experiment. The Manila Community Services District removed them today, and is storing the slats at its office if someone wants to pick them up. According to Steve Werner, a Humboldt County building and planning supervisor, the district had to […]
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Funnel of Love
The fair is back, and with it the deep-fried carny cuisine we love. Oh, don’t look like that. All over the world, people of different cultures and creeds are united by a universal love of fried dough. Purists insist on powdered sugar only on their funnel cakes, or else a little cinnamon sugar. Really, it’s […]
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Centerarts 2013-2014 Lineup
Grab your calendar—the Centerarts schedule is here. Fans of country music have Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell as well as Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt to look forward to. Reggae devotees can worship at the well-traveled feet of Jimmy Cliff, and fans of heavy makeup can check out Blue Man Group’s antics. From Wynton Marsalis […]
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Best in Shell
Much has been made of the Oyster Festival’s fence, and how to get around it, but it hardly matters. You’re not truly inside until you breathe the rarified air of the VIP lounge in the Plaza Grill, gazing down on the plebeians on the plaza. You also get to glimpse the blue tarp of secrecy […]
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On the Waterfront
Mentioning Lazio’s around locals of a certain age is a bit like bringing up an old flame –there is sighing and smiling and remembrance of meals past. There are tales of tourists lined up in the summertime and locals streaming in on rainy evenings, shaking out their coats and warming up over bowls of chowder […]
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Cheap Eats
Depending on how old you are, the idea of two people eating well for $20 — tax and tip included — generally yields a sigh of nostalgia or a raised eyebrow of skepticism. And yet, it turns out there are quite a few places in Humboldt County where you can sit down to a truly […]
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Got It Down Cold
Reviews ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT. You might as well take the kids to see the fourth installment of the Ice Age series because they’re not going to stop making them. And why should they? These folks have the family movie thing down cold. The films look great, they have some heart, they’re witty and […]
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Black ‘n’ Sassy
MEN IN BLACK III. Ever since Independence Day (1996), Will Smith has been the go-to sci-fi guy, and the Men in Black franchise has been a nice breather from watching him and everyone else in the genre frown through bleak, post-apocalyptic wastelands or high-tech moral dilemmas. MIB movies are slick, wholesome odes to B-movies and […]