This week: We’re talking about the Elk River Watershed, Humboldt County elections and how we camp out in the NCJ office to cover them, as well as how a pair of local campers became outdoor cooking YouTubers. Hit subscribe for weekly updates via YouTube.
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week: We’ve got answers from candidates in the Humboldt County Supervisors races for the First and Second districts covering the economy, climate crisis, homelessness and infrastructure and road maintenance. We also asked them some personal and creative questions, so we’ll talk about why. Then we’ve got advice on where to eat clam chowder and […]
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Skin Deep: Photos from Inked Hearts
The 11th annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo wrapped up four days of tattooing last Thursday-Sunday in the Sapphire Palace and Kinetik Lounge at Blue Lake Casino and Hotel. Organizers Ted and Amy Marks, owners of the local Nor Cal Tattoo shop, brought in more than 30 local and visiting artists for on-the-spot “ink” opportunities for […]
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Po’ Boys and Sympathy
If you go to Fat Anne’s Bakery & Bistro’s new spot on Main Street in Ferndale (939 Main St.), get the fried chicken. Then tell me what it’s like because the fryer was down on the day I visited, though I hear it’s being remedied. It happens! But there is little that can stop my […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week news editor Thad Greenson and arts and features editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill talk with host David Frank about an off-duty assault that cost a local police officer his job, a not weird enough Netflix series set (but not filmed) in Humboldt and a couple of classic Chinese American recipes for crab. Watch the […]
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Down at the Docks
Sometimes I walk from the Journal offices down F Street to the plaza, with its wind-whipped flags, and look across the water as the fishing boats come into the bay as they have for lifetimes, bringing their haul back from the unkowable depths and think, “Shouldn’t we have, like, a million places for fish and […]
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Cocina on the Green
The incongruity of a Mexican restaurant on the grounds of a golf course lessens as you sit in a snug window booth at Cocina Mariposa (4750 Fairway Drive, Eureka), which you enter via the pro shop, and watch the sunset. On a recent rainy evening, when a lone golfer was whacking balls into the lake […]
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To Fill the Happy Hours
If you’ve had the good sense to make your way to Five Eleven (511 Second St., Eureka) for its Tuesday through Saturday happy hour starting at 5 p.m., I sincerely hope you ate. The duck fat French fries — served in a steel cup with a triumvirate of ketchup, green goddess dressing and Sriracha aioli […]
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Arcata House to Provide Hot Meals, Needs Some Help to Do So
The Arcata House Partnership will be hosting meal events during Christmas week to help folks in need of a hot meal during the holiday season. Meals will be available from noon to 3 p.m. at the nonprofit’s Ninth Street annex Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. In addition to lending a helping hand, the partnership is […]
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Greek Pizza from the Irish Place
The pizza restaurant that once was Eureka’s Big Louie’s, then Marcelli’s, has been repainted an eye-popping green and reopened as Shenanigans (1604 Fourth St.). Given its name and pedigree (owner Kelly Erben runs Gallagher’s Irish Pub), you wouldn’t be crazy for thinking this is an Irish bar, but it’s a pizza joint. Listen, the Romans […]
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Coastal Comforts at Los Sinaloenses
Maybe you’ve sat in the maroon vinyl booth seats at 1134 Fifth St. in Eureka before — when it was a Mexican restaurant, then a barbecue joint, then another Mexican place. But for the last month, it’s been Los Sinaloenses. It’s named for the people of the coastal region of Mexico just inside the Gulf […]
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Pasta Luego Says Ciao
At the end of this month, sandwich and fresh pasta purveyor Pasta Luego is shutting its doors in Arcata’s Jacoby Storehouse. Owner Nicole Maki started working at the shop in 2013, a few months after it opened, and bought it from restaurateur Bill Chino in 2016. Three years later, after struggling with the combination of […]