Shakespeare returns
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Hang onto your goffered frills, Shakespeare is returning to Sandpoint. Since 1973, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks has brought the plays of William Shakespeare to rural communities throughout Montana...
Category: Arts & Culture
The Lumberjill
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist Once upon a time, in a seemingly far off land, I was a writer. I woke every morning, grabbed my jar of peanut butter and mug of tea,...
We gotta get out of this place
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A decade or so ago, on the way home from a backcountry music festival in Montana, I stopped off with two friends at a bar in Clark Fork. We...
Broadcaster Bill Litsinger unveils new podcast
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Sometimes a change of format is just what the doctor ordered. Bill Litsinger, longtime host of the weekly radio talk show “The Voice” on KSPT/KBFI, is launching a new...
MCS hires a new director of music
By Reader Staff Spring is a time for new beginnings, and that is true for Sandpoint’s local school of performing arts. The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint recently announced a new face, Dr. Matt Goodrich,...
True Crime
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Aristotle thought long and hard about the nature of wickedness — specifically, the moral nature of ill deeds performed knowingly or unknowingly. In his Nicomachean Ethics, the philosopher argued...
BoCo drops appeal of Festival gun suit
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Board of Bonner County Commissioners announced March 16 that it will drop its appeal of the lawsuit against the city of Sandpoint regarding The Festival at Sandpoint’s policy...
Singing praises to movie musicals that work
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Movie musicals are tricky. At their best, they weave a story around infectious melodies that leave viewers still humming long after the movie has ended. At their worst, they...
The Swedish Forrest Gump — with dynamite
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The literature and cinema of the Scandanavian countries has enjoyed a robust yet still niche following in the U.S. for some time — seemingly specializing in moody, violent police...
Where history and live theater meet
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council is slated to host its first live performance in more than a year, presenting the Living Voices’ production of “Northwest Passages” on Friday, March 19 at...
