The annual North Coast Journal Flash Fiction Contest winner and finalists are here! We’ve also got a story on the second investigation into a county supervisor’s behavior, this time regarding Rex Bohn. And finally, we’re looking at recently released body camera footage of sheriff’s deputies fatally shooting a suspect in July, and questions about why […]
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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Wake Up Dead Man Keeps Faith
WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) is marvelous on a number of levels, harkening back to the ensemble Agatha Christie adaptations of the 1970s and, like the work of the queen of whodunnits, its cheerful skewering of the rich and powerful. In it, we meet gentleman detective […]
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Sisu: Road to Revenge Stays Driven
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE. The original Sisu (2022), written and directed by Jalmari Helander is a marvelously focused action movie with nods to American Westerns but roots firmly in the history and cold mud of Finland. The movie takes its name from a Finnish word for grim determination that allows a person to push beyond […]
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The Badger State, Trans Resistance and Dickens
This week we’re sharing the story of a local connection to a long ago shipwreck and the family of a lost sailor. We’re also talking about the Trans Week of Resistance and the start of holiday theater around the county. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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The Stopwatch
A family’s ‘lifeline’ to the wreck of the SS Badger State On a Friday afternoon in early August, Maureen Reiche Foster called the Journal from her home in Chicago. She was hoping to talk with someone about the article “Nightmare at Sea,” by Geoff S. Fein, that ran in the Jan. 2, 2003, issue of […]
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Predator Badlands Evolves
PREDATOR: BADLANDS. Whether regarding the Constitution or movie franchises, originalism is a trap, suffocating innovation and imagination against our natural impulse to learn, adapt and evolve with our environment and others in it. Doubtless, the internet is already rife with complaints over the departures Predator Badlands takes from the formula that’s been mostly lucrative, though […]
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Slice of Humboldt Pie Season
November isn’t so much pie season — open your mind and it’s pie season all year — as it is Pie All Day season. Spring and summer offer their stone fruits and berries, baked and fresh, as you’ll see if you peruse Slice of Humboldt’s monthly menus. But November is where it gets serious. Thanksgiving […]
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Klamath Rebound, SNAP Aid and Bushnell Censure
This week we have a story from Native Underscore News about the Klamath River’s comeback post-damming and the challenges ahead. We’re also looking at local efforts to help those missing SNAP benefits and the censure of a Humboldt County supervisor. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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‘Don’t Wait to Be Asked’
Feeding folks amid loss of SNAP benefits Avi Leibson estimates the cost of the ingredients for the big pot of chicken soup he made in his Falafel Love kitchen, aside from the few unsold roasted chicken quarters from the day’s special, at around $10. He added potatoes, sweet potatoes, croutons made from the day’s leftover […]
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Halloween Scares and a SNAP Emergency
We’re all in on Halloween with a spooky-sweet comic by local artist Liz Valasco, haunted house reviews and scary book recs. Real world fears loom, starting Nov. 1, as SNAP benefits halt. We’re looking at how Humboldt is preparing and the cuts that are making it tougher. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
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The Seeker
Chapter 1 About the Artist Artist Liz Valasco says she discovered the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes when she was 7 and “never looked back.” Her comics, zines, drawings and prints can be gently haunting, but there’s a sympathetic wonder to them, whether they depict aliens, odd children, monsters, late-night horror queens like Vampira or […]
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No Kings, a Visiting Bear and Rocky Revisited
The No Kings II protest drew thousands to the Humboldt County Courthouse, and we’re looking at the organizations and local folks who gathered there. We’ve also got the inside scoop on the wild bear who stopped by the zoo and a new production of The Rocky Horror Show. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt […]