Viggo Mortensen hosts Panida showing of The Dead Don’t Hurt
By Reader Staff
Viggo Mortensen, three-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor, will return to the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave.) on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 …
Category: Arts & Culture
Babylon Berlin reemerges with a triumphal fourth season
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
A handful of critics seem a little bemused by the popularity of Babylon Berlin.
The New York Times referred to a “a small core of …
Twister blows into Panida for $5 film screening
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Disaster movies have been with us almost since the beginning of film — with the 1933 earthquake-and-tsunami “adventure in speculation” Deluge generally regarded as the …
A few thoughts… On monogenesis and Albert Schweitzer
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Digging in the dictionary recently led to monogenesis, a theory that all living things evolved from a single cell — some combination of proteins …
Mad about Science: Powered Exoskeleton
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
The idea of a powered human exoskeleton is an old one. Sigourney Weaver whooping the crap out of the xenomorph queen with a power loader …
Bread and Cheesuses
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
I’ve started a cult.
I began laying the foundations of my church in March when I rediscovered the Vitruvian food that is the grilled cheese …
Rounding up the horses
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The horses have finally found a home. In 2016, after Clay and Reno Hutchison unpacked two trailers and brought an intact 1920 Allan Herschell carousel …
‘What it means to be human’
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The Northwest’s favorite theater group, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, will return to Sandpoint for a free, open-air performance of the Bard’s magnum opus, Hamlet…
Voters need to press local government to take care of stray dogs
By Mark Hon
Reader Contributor
If your beloved dog went missing, and was found alone, sick or injured, what would you want to have happen to it? Would you want …
Shall we play a game?
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Wands at the ready, set phasers to stun and prepare to geek out with Sandemonium Lite, a celebration of nerd culture. The convention will take …
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss a Guided Virtual Reality Experience, an Evergreen Medicine for Winter Resilience class, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
