A groundbreaking discovery
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sometimes it seems there’s little left for humankind to discover other than ever-more inventive ways to mess things up. So it is especially satisfying to reconnect with a sense...
Category: Arts & Culture
Dark beer, warm heart: 219 hosts Dark Love Stout Week
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff While the extended local forecast calls for freezing temperatures, there’s a hot-and-bothered front moving in as we approach Valentine’s Day on Sunday, Feb. 14 — perfect conditions for Dark...
Little things mean a lot
By Tim Henney Reader Staff Having suffered through a year of COVID-19 and four years of national anguish and global disgrace, “the little things,” as the old song goes (vocals by Kitty Kallen, circa...
James Henry Towles of Hope
By Nancy Foster Renk Reader Contributor Hope was a relatively new town when James Henry Towles arrived there no later than 1901. The Northern Pacific laid tracks across the Idaho Panhandle in 1881-1882 and...
Once upon a time signature
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Estimates place the first love song in Mesopotamia in 2250 BCE, when high priestess Enheduanna sang that she would make her lover “feel like a king.” Online music magazine...
Follicle chronicles
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Some people keep diaries to remember the various stages of their life. Others dedicate themselves to elaborate photo albums. My phases are meticulously logged on an index card tucked...
Soft sounds for hard times
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’ve been on a mission during the pandemic to listen to music that provides a soothing soundscape to help curb the vitriolic rhetoric that has plagued our world for...
‘The Old Apple Tree’ children’s book launches with event at Parnell Ranch
By Reader Staff What wisdom can an old apple tree offer — or for that matter, a giant Clydesdale stallion? A lot, as Jack Parnell can attest. And he’d like to share their wisdom...
KLT presents renowned wildlife photographer for owl event
By Reader Staff Kaniksu Land Trust is proud to welcome award-winning wildlife photographer, author and speaker Paul Bannick for a special virtual event. Bannick will present photos and experiences from his recently released book,...
You got a friend in me
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Evil is no doubt the predominant preoccupation of humankind — if it wasn’t, we’d have no need for its supposed equal and opposite. There’d be no religion; no laws;...
