The ninth annual Inked Hearts Tattoo Expo at the Blue Lake Casino & Hotel in Blue Lake last weekend wrapped the usual work of more than 30 talented tattoo artists around a few new features. Event organizers Ted and Amy Marks added the Hot Wings of Death Challenge and the all-bulldog Super Bully Bowl Pageant […]
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Morning, Porkchop
So if we’re willing to blur the line between breakfast and lunch, we may as well luge down the slippery slope to dinner. We’re really only an order of steak and eggs away. Abandon labels and be free. Well, at least until Cafe Waterfront (102 F St., Eureka) stops serving breakfast around 11 a.m. We […]
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Bigfoot on the Big Screen
If you saw a film crew, a hairy suit and a lot of bare abs in the woods between 2015 and 2016, it may have been the cast and crew of Primal Rage, a Hollywood feature film about our local cryptozoological hero, Bigfoot. The movie, directed by Patrick Magee and starring Casey Gagliardi and Andrew […]
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Is Brunch Dead?
A few weeks ago, iconic pop star and holder of Champagne flutes Mariah Carey declared brunch over. On some level, she may be right. We may be done waiting in line (Mimi would never) to pay through the nose for swanky, Instagram-ready cloud eggs and a pass to day drink. But old-fashioned brunch — the […]
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The World is Shrinking: An interview with Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s Albert Mazibuko
Iconic South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo comes to Humboldt State University’s Van Duzer Theatre on Thursday, Jan. 25. Setlist columnist Collin Yeo interviewed longtime member of the group Albert Mazibuko via email about the evolution of the group and its mission in the world. NCJ: Your cousin Joseph retired from touring in […]
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Back in Pink
On Saturday, Jan. 20, Madaket Plaza at the foot of C Street was packed with participants for Eureka’s second Women’s March. Last year, the multi-city protest following the inauguration of Donald Trump drew between 6,000 and 7,000 people, the largest crowd of marchers in Eureka’s history. This year’s event, which was a somewhat last-minute affair, […]
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Eureka Women’s March 2018 Hits Streets Saturday
One year ago and one day after the inauguration of admitted sexual assaulter Donald Trump, the streets of Washington, D.C., cities across the United States and beyond filled with sign-carrying, pink pussy-ear hatted protesters taking part in the Women’s March. Eureka’s march was the largest in the city’s history, with organizers reporting some 7,000 to […]
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Sea Change
The stretch of Eureka’s Fourth Street between T and R streets is broad-daylight sketchy. And yet two restaurants have built cult followings there: Tandoori Bites, with its lunch buffet of curries, and La Patria Mariscos and Grill (1718 Fourth St.), just a samosa’s throw across the street. A couple of years ago, Adrian and Cici Ayala […]
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Pie/Cake Truce
Let us not fall into the factions and false dichotomy of pie vs. cake. Really, given the fact that Boston cream pie is really cake and cheesecake — with its graham cracker crust — is more of a pie, are we not already living in a post pie-vs.-cake society? (Drag me in the comments if […]
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Red All Over
Red was having a moment at the Inn at 2nd & C on Saturday night, when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hosted their fundraiser for the Redwood Giants. The local Lifecycle team is headed for a long ride — from San Francisco to Los Angeles — to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS. Those who came to […]
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Humboldt in the New Wrinkle Trailer
The trailer for director Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, part of which filmed here in Humboldt County, dropped during the American Music Awards last night. At last, the Venn diagram circles of movie buffs, sci-fi/fantasy nerds, YA fiction nuts, Humboldt boosters and Oprah Winfrey fans have all overlapped. The trailer […]
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Hotsy Totsy
School cafeteria lunches don’t have their bad reputation for nothing. Those of a certain age remember when ketchup was declared a vegetable and meatless Fridays meant frozen fish sticks or pale, Styrofoam-y squares of pizza. Still, did you secretly revel in those fish sticks and their accompanying tartar sauce packets? Was there shameful pleasure to […]