Reviews FAST & FURIOUS 6. Since director Justin Lin took over this then-dying series with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), it has become one of the biggest, silliest and most satisfying franchises in movies. This time out, L.A. motorhead-turned-international super-criminal Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew have comfortably situated themselves in […]
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On Bob
First off, hi. Secondly, it would be disingenuous in a community this size to act as though a huge piece of this paper weren’t missing. Last week’s North Coast Journal was the first in seemingly forever to not include a page with “The Hum” emblazoned across the top. Obviously, business is not per usual. For […]
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Not Normal
In the musical Next to Normal, now onstage at North Coast Repertory Theatre in Eureka, Diana is a wife and mother who is being treated for mental illness. The story follows her treatment and how it affects her husband Dan and her teenage daughter Natalie, as well as Natalie’s relationship with her boyfriend Henry. Then […]
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More Workers
For a variety of reasons, a few photos didn’t make the cut for our photo contest. We liked them anyway and wanted to share them with our readers.
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The Joy of Handmade Pasta
In the beginning there is flour and water. Make the flour be semolina flour (ground durum wheat) and make the water warm. The pale yellow semolina flour may look as if it just stepped out of an impressionist painting, bathed in early morning sunlight. In the first act of the performance, you make the dough. […]
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Finally, a Facelift?
The stucco is cracked and stained, with mustard yellow streaks dribbling over tan walls. One of three corner turrets is missing, pulled down years ago to make space for a neon sign. The roof leaks. For decades, Terry Coltra has hoped and dreamed about restoring the Carson Block building in Old Town Eureka, as visions […]
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Humboldt At Work
Work,” some of us grumble. “I gotta go to work.” Sigh. Sob. Why?! The more content among us might answer, “Maybe you should find something to do that you love.” Good advice. But perhaps Maya Angelou’s take is better: “Nothing will work unless you do.” Hence we sew, saw, chop, deliver, grow, husband, heal, teach, […]
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Spock versus Spock
Reviews STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS. My personal investment in all this Star Trek business is pretty minimal. Years ago, I burned through the first four or five movies over the course of a languorous, lost afternoon. I enjoyed the experience, but I chose those movies because they were the only ones in the house where […]
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Gatsby on Blast
Reviews THE GREAT GATSBY. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gatsby is a near-perfect novel, one of the indispensable works of 20th century American art. This movie from Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge), on the other hand, seems like it was adapted from a ninth-grader’s term paper on the book. Fitzgerald captured a distinct place in […]