Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Best Local Cannabis Product Space Gem When you had to fly next to the weird man-spreader who took the armrest and breathed on you from takeoff to landing, who from Humboldt had your back? Space Gems. Maybe it was the tiniest little nibble of Sleepy Fig to calm your nerves or a sour rainbow of fruity drops to remove you entirely from the moment, but Space Gems were there for you. That’s why they’re the Best of Humboldt.

William Pierson recalls his kindergarten teacher giving out brown slabs of rolled clay with which he and his classmates were to form and decorate candy dis

ONSLAUGHT. The trailer for A24’s Onslaught had plenty of flashing signs indicating “slasher movie ahead.” And yet, the plot, as much as a splatter-fest requires one, specifies a former Army sharpshooter defending her daughter when they stumble upon genetically rigged killing machines. How could I keep from getting geared up for a woman-on-a-mission/mom-against-the-world action movie, particularly […]

Not the sunrise-tinted sandwich with its eerily symmetrical drippings of melted cheddar. Not the glossy, alien billboard burger or the frothy not-beer a program spit out. And for the love of all that occurs in nature, not the unholy crustacean nightmare ring I encountered in a local ad. There are so many reasons to reject […]

ONSLAUGHT. The trailer for A24’s Onslaught had plenty of flashing signs indicating “slasher movie ahead.” And yet, the plot, as much as a splatter-fest req

Friends, NCJ Burger Week, our annual 10-day, countywide frenzy with a side of fries, has ended. As W.B. Yeats wrote more than a century ago, “Everything that’s lovely is/ But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.” Granted, he was offering argument for his admonishing poem “Never Give All the Heart,” but it’s just as solid […]

Conrad Calimpong draws a thumb along the gold seam running through his chestnut brown “Pillow Pot Vase” to where it meets three other metallic streaks, fusing a mottled river rock like a jewel or a heart at its center. Like the other pieces in his show Earthquake Trauma: My Path to Recovery in the Anderson […]

Last week, I took advantage of the re-release of writer and director Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) in theaters to see it on the big (well, bigger) screen. The strange, sad, dreamy marvel of it bears as many rewatches as a person’s heart can take. Like so much of del Toro’s catalogue, even those […]

Editor’s note: This story includes bigoted and misogynistic quotations. The story spread quickly online and by word of mouth on Oct. 20, after a member of the Humboldt Foodies Facebook group posted screenshots from Smalls Fusion Comfort restaurant owner Scott Boone’s personal page, one dated March 19, reading, “This is what you fucktards on the […]

Happy Halloween, Humboldt. Last year we introduced you to the sweetly spooky work of comic artist Liz Valasco on our cover (“The Seeker,” Oct. 30, 2025). After seeing what she and the Journal’s Setlist columnist Collin Yeo cooked up together, how could we resist a second grab from the candy bucket? “Crash Course” also appears […]