This week we’re looking at California’s recycling deposit system and how it became broken to the point local residents have to drive to Crescent City to redeem their deposits or just accept the deposits as a kind of tax, while local grocers face new fees. It’s a mess. Speaking of which, get out your bibs […]
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NCJ Editor Nabs National Food Writing Award
We are elated to announce today that North Coast Journal arts and features editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill won the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2020 award for best food writing, while the paper’s Media Literacy Issue took second place for best special section. The nonprofit association includes nearly 100 member papers throughout the country, including many […]
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Top 10 Dick Moves of 2019
In the final weeks of the decade, instead of a plague of locusts, a beach full of floppy, pink innkeeper worms, aka “penis fish,” washed ashore at Bodega Bay. We get it, universe/God/all-powerful being/Baby Yoda: so many dicks. Here in Humboldt, we had our own tide of dick moves, with local actors making more than […]
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NCJ Editor Nabs National Awards
The North Coast Journal’s own Jennifer Fumiko Cahill got some national recognition this week. At its annual newspaper contest awards ceremony over the weekend, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia announced that Cahill, our arts and features editor, finished second in the Food Writing category and received an honorable mention in Best Columns in our circulation […]
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Pitch and Pour
Meeting a journalist in a dark parking garage is so Nixon era. Besides, it’s far less creepy to meet up with the Journal‘s editors over a beverage. On Thursday, April 27 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. share your hot leads and a cold beer with news editor Thadeus Greenson and arts and features editor Jennifer Fumiko […]