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 […]
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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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 […]
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The Tao of Jeff
Reviews JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME. The good comedies are always harder to find. Movies like Bridesmaids or The Hangover, with their incessant advertising, are impossible to avoid. Whatever entertainment value they might hold is lost before we enter the theater; they can’t live up to the hype. Jeff, Who Lives at Home had no […]
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The Death of Redevelopment
On Jan. 10 in a dark City Hall conference room, Director of Eureka Redevelopment Cindy Trobitz-Thomas clicks through a slideshow of renovated Victorians and storefronts. Her hair is piled in a loose bun on the top of her head. On the screen, a scrubby lot in front of some dilapidated brick buildings transforms into the […]
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It’s the Little Things
NEW: Humboldt Movie Times and Openings THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY. This adaptation of Mary Norton’s 1952 book The Borrowers comes from Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a protégé of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Ponyo). It tells the tale of young Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler) and her parents, Lilliputian scavengers who live under a […]
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On the Waterfront
On a strangely warm, cloudless January morning, a handful of people stroll along the boardwalk, stopping to point across the water at the crowd of boats docked at the Woodley Island Marina. Behind them, where the boardwalk ends at the foot of C Street, stands the newly opened Fisherman’s Terminal with its sea-green roof. The […]