The artists in repose
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Edward Kienholz has been waiting 25 years for his driver. The world-renowned artist was buried in his 1940 Packard Coupe on Howe Mountain in Hope after his death in...
Category: Arts & Culture
The write stuff
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff There’s a myth about writers, silently toiling in solitude to turn out a perfect page of prose. There’s truth to it — writing can be a lonely business —...
The roaring now
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most people would place classic swing tunes a good distance from electronic beats on the musical genre spectrum. Not Carey Rayburn. The classically trained trumpeter always had a love...
Brothers in harps
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Tonedevil Brothers — David and Anthony Powell — don’t just play their instruments. In a lot of cases, they’ve been familiar with their guitar’s wood grain since it...
One decade, two brothers, three cafes
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff One with an extensive background in coffee and the other an experienced businessman, two brothers came together exactly a decade ago to create a product and place now ingrained...
Island time
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Like any good obsession, Charity Luthy’s affinity for mid-century art and aesthetics started randomly and quickly grew out of all proportion. “I got really into the 1950s vintage look...
CAL celebrates 40 years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Forty years ago, the Community Assistance League was formed by a small group of philanthropists eager to create a nonprofit where local women could affect real change in Sandpoint....
Cornhole tournament set to take over First Ave. this weekend
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Back after a successful inaugural event, the Sandpoint Cornhole Classic tournament will take over historic First Avenue in Sandpoint on Saturday, Sept. 14. The tournament is co-presented by MickDuff’s...
Wentworth, master thief
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Somewhere on the dark, quiet streets of south Sandpoint, Wentworth the cat is on the prowl, searching for another pair of flip-flops to steal. The sandal-stealing feline, owned by...
Tabletop gaming in the age of laptops, desktops, tablets and smartphones
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When I was growing up, tabletop gaming like “Dungeons & Dragons” was a lot like a trip to Las Vegas: You had a ton of fun with a lot...
