Battle of the bands
By Reader Staff For decades, the battle has raged: Beatles or Stones? Through their heyday, fans accused London’s Rolling Stones of stealing ideas — even entire albums — from their Liverpool counterparts. At the...
Category: Arts & Culture
The Renaissandlersance
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Watch Adam Sandler on the Dec. 17, 2019 edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, when the 53-year-old funnyman talks about his surprise critical smash turn in Uncut Gems, and you’ll...
Celebrating a century of suffrage
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff History books are undoubtedly a vital tool in understanding the past. It only makes sense to keep records of years and days on which monumental events happened. One such...
Lost Horse Press announces workshop, releases bevy of books
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Sandpoint publisher Lost Horse Press released five new titles in recent months, and is continuing its mission to provide high-quality writing opportunities for local authors of all ages and...
Music from the Heart
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Seeing as most would consider the Panida Theater the heart of the Sandpoint arts scene, it seems particularly fitting that Roger Fisher of the popular ’70s and ’80s band...
High hopes on the slopes
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Some films draw their juice from a stellar ensemble cast. For others, it’s a killer premise. For some, like the 2019 rom-com Olympic Dreams, the setting makes the movie....
‘The story of Bonner County’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When Helen Newton took a U.S. history class at Sandpoint High School in the late 1950s, she was required to do an oral presentation on the topic of her...
Sandpoint Winter Carnival: Week 2 events
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The annual Winter Carnival spans from Feb. 14-23, featuring a bevy of events, including everything from parades to parties. Here’s an edited schedule of events for the second and...
Bonners Ferry theater faces blowback for policy banning weapons
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The drama over so-called “gun free zones” has spread from Sandpoint — where for months county and city officials have sparred in court over The Festival at Sandpoint’s no-weapons...
Full house
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Panida Board of Directors received some homework Feb. 19, as about 25 community members attended its monthly meeting — the most that Chairman Robert Moore reported ever seeing...
