The future of live music in Sandpoint
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Lovers of live music in Sandpoint are in for a rough summer. Many of Sandpoint’s most high-profile events have already been canceled, including The Festival at Sandpoint, Lost in...
Category: Arts & Culture
Essential Quarantine Reading
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Odds are that most people remember Daniel Defoe — if they remember him at all — as the author of Robinson Crusoe. That, or they confuse him with the...
Small town, big story
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff An acclaimed coming-of-age documentary based in a small Florida town serves as the next film in the Panida Theater’s Virtual Viewing Rooms Series. The theater will offer virtual screenings...
When the going gets weird…
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When researchers of intellectual and social history someday assess “The Coronavirus Era,” the smart money is on them framing it as a period of mass self-assessment in the so-called...
Festival at Sandpoint season passes can be donated to support 2020-2021 programs
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff With the news that the 38th Festival at Sandpoint summer concert series has been canceled due to disruptions and restrictions stemming from the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, event organizers...
The Frog, Fear and the Happiest People
By Chris White Reader Contributor Like an injected dye highlighting cancer in our body, this pandemic has revealed failures in our country— and ourselves. Two months ago, many were watching the darkening clouds of...
Emily Articulated: A column by and about Millennials
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Act One, Scene One: The Bedroom, Sandpoint, Idaho. Dawn. Emily, a late-20s working-from-home writer, is sleeping in bed. She has wrestled all of the covers to her side of...
Turning downtime to jam time
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The online music retail industry is seeing a surge in sales, thanks in large part to the abundance of free time many are experiencing amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. ...
True crime is truly divine
By Ben Olson Reader Staff America is obsessed with true crime. It seems everywhere you turn there is another true crime documentary series that delves into the dark, evil, sometimes morbidly funny underworld of...
Beehives to bangs: Hair through the ages
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor Have you found yourself lately standing in front of the mirror, hoping that quarantine will last the three months it takes to flesh out a proper handlebar mustache? Have...
