‘A Big Heart’
Mark Campbell’s life of food, art and service By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Cover Story
‘A Big Heart’
In the video, you can only see Mark Campbell’s hands, blunt-fingered and already pale with clay slip, wedding band still visible as he cups a tilted little volcano of clay turning drunkenly on the wheel. He presses it to a symmetrical cake before scraping the bottom edge to clear the excess. Then digging in at…
Gallagher’s Headed Back to the Eagle House
Amid the rise and fall and relocation of Old Town restaurants, one spot is returning to how it used to be. Gallagher’s Irish Restaurant and Pub is headed back to its digs in the Eagle House (139 Second St., Eureka) in early 2025. As Jessica Silva reported in the forthcoming issue of My Humboldt Life,…
Former HumCo Fair Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty in Embezzlement Case
The former bookkeeper accused of embezzling more than $400,000 from the Humboldt County Fair Association has pleaded guilty to five federal counts of wire fraud. Tafarella, 49, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 or both for each count when she’s sentenced at a hearing…
HumCo Dairy Farms Not Heavily Affected by Avian Flu State of Emergency
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in response to Avian Influenza, also known as “Bird Flu,” being detected in dairy cows in Southern California. This comes after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered a new national milk testing regimen to better monitor the outbreak at the beginning of the month.…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Dec. 21
Here’s a trio of ways to celebrate the longest night of the year, laid out in chronological form for your discernment. At the Arcata Playhouse at 7 p.m., singer and trombonist James Zeller presents the music of Chet Baker (and other Capricorns). He will be joined by his usual cadre of talented cats, Gabe Lubowe,…
NCJ Preview: The life of Mark Campbell and St. Joseph Hospital update
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, we’re joined by Arts and Features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, who honors the life of the beloved local chef and ceramicist Mark Campbell in her piece “Big Heart.” News Editor Thadeus Greenson gives an update on St. Joseph Hospital and a second harrowing lawsuit related to care…
Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 20
Tomáseen Foley’s “A Celtic Christmas” is on the program tonight at the Van Duzer Theatre at 7 p.m. ($25-$50). Now in its 29th year of production, this mix of storytelling, music and dance evokes the mid-20th century bygone days of holiday celebration as experienced by the people of Western Ireland. Enjoy the folklore and fun…
Jerk Kitchen to Close Friday
Yesterday Jason Mitchell, owner of Eureka’s Jerk Kitchen (427 W Harris St.), announced via Instagram that the Jamaican restaurant would serve its final meals of jerk chicken, stewed oxtails and fresh cornbread on Friday, Dec. 20. He begins the post by “saying thank you for allowing me to take one of my greatest loves, which…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Dec. 19
Here’s a thought: Try starting your long solstice weekend off with some free jazz. Not free in the sense of genre, but a no-cover show at the Basement at 7:30 p.m., with fusion group HDMB Jazz.
Checking in with the Best Friend of an Amateur Detective Who Stumbles onto a Murder Everywhere She Goes
I guess I should have acted surprised, but when I saw Macy standing over the body sprawled in the snow, the fifth body in as many weeks, I was justifiably annoyed. Like, wow, that charming young ski instructor was blackmailing the resort’s accountant, and that’s why the ski lift malfunctioned, sending him to his death?…
Blue Christmas
I was woken up late last night by the hooting of two owls somewhere outside of my bedroom. Despite my fairly new fascination with birdwatching, this was not the gift I was hoping for, as I was still recovering from the shock of some loved ones being in a car wreck earlier that day (they’re…
Kraven Collapses, Carry-On Packs a Punch
KRAVEN THE HUNTER. Everybody makes mistakes, right? More than half the voters in this country did but that’s a topic for another conversation (screed, ugly cry, whichever one prefers). In this case, I made the optimistic error to set aside my widely disseminated opinions about Marvel movies (and yes, this is Marvel Studios, which is…
Tackiness at the Top?
Editor: President-elect Donald Trump appears to be continuing in his role as “The Merchant of Self-Branded Stuff” (Mailbox, Dec. 12). At one time, such behavior might have been considered tacky for a soon-to-be president, but apparently not for Trump today. In this role, Trump just released a new line of men’s and women’s colognes at…
A ‘Price Put on His Head’
Editor: In response to news of the $4.5-million price put on his head earlier this month by President Biden’s “America the Beautiful” challenge grant (NCJ Daily, Dec.10), the Barred Owl signals his rage: “When Moon unmasks your naked face, and gilds your gun with diamonds green, I mark your progress from afar. You stumble toward…
‘A Nightmare on Replay’
A second local woman has filed a lawsuit alleging Providence St. Joseph Hospital caused her undue suffering and put her life at risk when it denied her necessary emergency medical care in the form of an abortion, because the unviable fetus she was carrying still had a detectable heartbeat. The allegations in the suit filed…
‘She Tried!’
Editor: The older Journal archives are not easily searchable. The “local newspaper” that labeled Patty Berg “the Energizer Bunny?” It was the Journal in a July 10, 2003, cover story (“Eye of the Storm.”) I didn’t know her well in those days but later I was honored to become one of Patty’s girlfriends — once…
‘Who Profits?’
Editor: By all measures, the United States was hit hard by the COVID pandemic. It was real. Unemployment, scarcity of essential parts and consumer products, medical overwhelm, reduced education for children, anxiety, fear, distrust of masks and shots, and polarized actions. All of these factors collectively caused economic and societal pain and anguish. All in…
Year End Potpourri
Mazda: I drive a 1990 Mazda Miata, whose reliability and near-perfect 50/50 weight distribution between the front and rear axles give me hope that it will “see me through,” to borrow a phrase from my late father-in-law. Why “Mazda?” In 1931, cork manufacture Toyo Kogyo was looking for a new company name to celebrate the…
I Could Do Without Mondays
Wednesday Adams, wearing Thursday Boots, had dinner with friends at TGI Fridays on Saturday night. They went to Ruby Tuesday for dessert, each of them ordering a sundae. Garrett Snedaker
