Wicked good
Apple TV series Widow’s Bay is an addictive horror comedy By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Both big- and small-screen productions have become so formulaic and derivative that pointing out that fact is, itself, formulaic and...
Category: Arts & Culture
The Sandpoint Eater: My choice is chocolate
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist There are moments when the world feels too loud to recognize. Lately, for me, politics has been one of those things. The elections left me carrying a heaviness like a...
Marcella Nelson: Short in stature but big in service and commitment
By Reader Staff Longtime area residents are well familiar with Marcella Nelson, who celebrated her 97th birthday in October 2025. Though famously petite, Nelson has played an outsized role in the Ponderay and Sandpoint...
Mad about Science: Magnetic recording
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The last time Brenden Bobby took a week off from “Mad About Science,” we wrote about 1950s technology — including the invention of video tape. That entry turned out to...
Sandemonium pandemonium at the library
By Reader Staff Sandemonium, the perfect Sandpoint-sized comic con, is back Saturday, May 30 for one of two nerdy parties. The celebration of fan culture, science fiction, fantasy, games and everything else that makes...
Goosebumps acquired
A short list of the best use of music in cinema By Ben OlsonReader Staff The usage of music in cinema is, arguably, just as important as the images captured on the screen. Whether...
The pleasure of nonsense
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff In old newspapers — as in from the 1880s through to the 1970s — it wasn’t uncommon to see the nonsense phrase “etaoin shrdlu” taking up a line of text...
There are 2.5 million reasons to like this store
By Chuck MalloyReader Contributor As any store manager can attest, retail is a tough business, and good help is hard to find. Not so much with Bizarre Bazaar, Sandpoint’s “upscale resale store,” which is...
Mad about Science: Weird biology
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist Time to warm up those thumbs, denizens of Bonner County! Today’s article will be a glance into Earth’s weird evolutionary past — and to get the full picture, you’re going...
The Brat PAC
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Our civilization has persisted with the majority of adults operating at the emotional-intellectual level of bratty 13-year-olds for a long time — and even managed to not only survive them...
