Hunting for history with the Elks
By Chris Corpus and Hannah Combs Reader Contributors The weightlessness of being carried in father’s arms. A blast of sharp winter wind whistling through the crack of the door at his back. A glimpse...
Category: Arts & Culture
Festival season passes on sale
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff To say that 2020 has presented some challenges to The Festival at Sandpoint would be an understatement — and even that understatement would be an understatement. Between the War...
James Bond: The ultimate cinematic time capsule
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor There are few more enduring pop culture icons than James Bond. For 60 years, 007 has defined and redefined the action blockbuster. But there’s more to the series than...
Tanqueray tells her story
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Stephanie Johnson grew up in a wealthy part of Albany, N.Y. as one of very few Black children in her neighborhood. She danced ballet and excelled in school, but...
On the side
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Exhausting the musical catalogs of our favorite musical artists, we are often left yearning for more. However, with a bit of research, chances are you’ll learn that those artists...
Complex creatures
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Midway through my first semester as a grad student in history I’d had enough of complexity. Reading about 1,000 pages a week, grading papers for 70+ freshmen and participating...
The medium is the message
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s a common thing for people beyond a certain age — say, those who graduated high school before or immediately after the turn of the century — to comment...
Sandpoint Films offers free outdoor screening of ‘G-Dog’
By Reader Staff G-Dog is a film about second chances. The documentary focuses on the charismatic visionary Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who rescued kids from gangs by launching the nation’s largest, most successful...
‘Leaving the Boys’ goes beyond ‘journalism memoir’ to tell a story of self-reinvention
By David Ledford Special to the Reader When some former journalists tell stories of their lives, the narratives often brim with bravado, journalistic conquest and self applause. Mindy Cameron enjoyed a successful career, which...
Thermo-nuclear family
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In the immediate days following Sept. 11, 2001, I sat for a junior-year class called “Apocalyptic Literature” at then-Albertson College of Idaho. I remember the professor dropped a pile...
