Ghosts, ghouls and goodies
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff There’s no better way to enjoy this spooky season than to dress up, hit the streets and gorge yourself on candy. Luckily, opportunities to celebrate Halloween abound in Sandpoint...
Category: Arts & Culture
Pass me the pumpkin spice
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I take pride in my coffee order: a 12-ounce dark roast drip, hot, no room. There’s a simplicity and subtle badassery to drinking your coffee black, but in reality,...
How to listen to live music
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you’ve read the headline and thought, “Duh, you just listen to it, bro,” you’re missing the point. Furthermore, this article is probably going to be particularly beneficial to...
Welcome to the Zombie Nest
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When learning to create art with papier-mâché, most recall building piñatas in grade school. Randy Wilhelm’s art students at Lake Pend Oreille High School have taken the medium to...
‘It’s about acceptance’
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shephard was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyo. — a murder that was denounced as a hate crime since Shephard identified as gay....
‘Community over competition’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Artists have a reputation for toiling alone, pouring their creative energies into their work in a solitary struggle between their vision and ability to bring it to fruition. While...
Sip, sip hooray
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When Matchwood Brewing Co. owners Andrea Marcoccio and Kennden Culp opened their doors a year ago in Sandpoint, they had dreams that their brewery would be more than just...
‘Inland Northwest Ale Trail’ app brings area breweries to your fingertips
By Ben Olson Reader Staff An estimated 10 million people visit more than 4,100 craft breweries each year. These impressive numbers point to a rising trend among hop-lovers: beer tourism. For the past decade,...
County music festival committee to form ‘backup plan’ in case of Festival closure
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bonner County commissioners passed a resolution Oct. 15 to form the Music Festival Feasibility Study Committee — a group meant to conduct a study to “determine whether it would...
Sounds of the East: Sandpoint Curry brings world-class Indian music to the Panida
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most North Idahoans know local restaurateur Pete Hicks for his deliciously warm and filling meals at Sandpoint Curry. Fewer know that Hicks’ ties to India go all the way...
