Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

California

Arts and Features Editor at North Coast Journal

Arts & Features Editor @ncj_of_humboldt, accomplished eater, mouthy broad. She/her. @JFumikoCahill on Instagram & Bluesky.

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Articles

A Ranking of Snack Shack Eats at the Arcata Ball Park

3 days ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Trips to the concessions stand are part of the baseball experience — central to it, for some of us. At the Arcata Ball Park, the tab is surprisingly inexpensive, with food items topping out at $9, a pittance compared to big stadiums. This leaves you with a little extra to earn a "Tip, tip, hooray!" from the staff. (They're too busy to dwell on a missed tip, but trust that everyone behind you will notice the silence.) We've also got a strong lineup on the whiteboard menu.
Photos: Forest Moon Festival Feels the Force

4 days ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill |Mark Larson

The Saturday, May 31 schedule for the third annual, three-day Forest Moon Festival opened on the Arcata Plaza with up close and personal photo opps with costumed Star Wars characters and appearances by actor Kyle Newman (director of Fanboys) and Kevin Thompson, original cast member as Ewok actor and stunt performer from 1983’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. See the slideshow below for highlights of the festival.
Kinetic Glory, Trump Cuts and Rural Portraits

1 week ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill Bio: Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the arts and features editor of the She won the Association of Alternative Newsmediaâ€™s 2020 Best Food Writing Award and the 2019 California News Publisher's Association award for Best Writing.
Glory Over Land and Sea

1 week ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

After the Brake Check lap around the Arcata Plaza on Saturday, May 24, 48 kinetic sculptures and their teams — from canine to bovine, warriors to hippies, spooky to sparkling — set off on the more than 50-mile, three-day quest for glory that is the annual Kinetic Grand Championship. The rollicking ride detoured past Dead Man's Drop in the Ma-le'l Dunes this year.
Mission's Accomplishments

1 week ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING. It took me until the previous Reckoning to realize that, among its many other fine and compelling attributes, one of the great successes of the Mission: Impossible franchise, at least in its late-stage iterations, lies in its simultaneous fealty to its origins — cinematic, not so much the television series — and ability to craft propulsive, exciting cinema that does not require the same fealty in its audience.
What's Good: A Dipped Cone to Save the Day

1 week ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Dipped soft serve cones saved my marriage. When, at the age of 28, having been a licensed driver for more than a decade, I needed to learn stick shift, it was my husband who put his head in the lion's mouth. We practiced every day on backroads and in empty parking lots in upstate New York, testing the limits of his patience and my frustrated rage, both of which proved more or less boundless. It was the first true test of our fledgling marital bond.
Lore and Gore

2 weeks ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES. Over the weekend, a horror-loving friend and I scooted to the center of the middle row at the Mill Creek Cinema in McKinleyville with a bag of popcorn between us just as the real previews began. Despite the name, the Final Destination movies could very well continue into perpetuity, assuming the AI robots let us entertain ourselves with goofy gore. But this is likely the last movie I'll see at Mill Creek, which is slated to screen its last June 1.
Smalls Brings Big Flavors

2 weeks ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

After five years dormant, the spot where Marcelli's Italian Restaurant served its ravioli for 90 years is once again seating customers, now under the banner of Smalls, the new name carved into a redwood sign out front (1323 Fifth St., Eureka). The "fusion comfort" restaurant is open for lunch with plans to add dinner hours down the road. Chef and owner Scott Boone says he chose the name for the scale: a small dining room, a small kitchen, small plates and a small menu of only things he loves.
Controlled Burning, the Woman's Club, Accessibility and Abortion

3 weeks ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill Bio: Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the arts and features editor of the She won the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2020 Best Food Writing Award and the 2019 California News Publisher's Association award for Best Writing.
The Tragedy of Andor

3 weeks ago | northcoastjournal.com | Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

ANDOR. Once this issue of the Journal is put to bed, this column included, I will head home and sink into my couch with a bowl of pita chips that are not nearly hard enough to grind the stress out through my already taxed molars while I watch the closing three episodes of the second and final season of Andor. It's necessarily the last season, running up to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), which passes the baton (and secret plans) to Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).