Growing up in the ’80s as a half Korean and half white kid in Southern California, the TV shows, dolls and demographics of my neighborhood didn’t reflect me or my reality. Physically, I did not look like I was enough of one side to hide comfortably behind those features. As a child, I longed to […]
Korean cuisine
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What’s Good at the Friday Night Market
The first Friday Night Market of the season crossed light sabers with the Forest Moon Festival on May 31, packing Old Town’s closed streets with vendors and Vaders, buskers and Wookiees. Favorites returned, like Frybread Love’s Indian tacos, the empanadas from La Colombiana and, yes, that’s the mobile fryer of the Love Mini Donuts stall […]
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Alchemy’s Pop-up Magic
Less than an hour before sunset, the Alchemy Distillery (330 S. G St., Arcata) gives off the glow and thrum of a party through the large open window counter, where patrons sit inside and out, bustling bar traffic on one side, overhead heat lamps cutting the chill on the other. There’s still a line of […]