Eichardt’s launches new Publican Pick music series
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Eichardt’s Pub has been a downtown Sandpoint home for live music since 1994, with regular weekend shows and the venerable Monday Night Blues Jam. On top of all that —...
Category: Arts & Culture
Panida features Fantastic Mr. Fox as part of Wes Anderson series
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Few authors’ works cry out more loudly for film adaptation than Roald Dahl’s, and few directors are more suited to the task than Wes Anderson. The auteur made his animation...
POAC presents Northern Visions exhibition of paintings by Alison Barrows-Young
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council will present a new solo exhibition from Alison Barrows-Young, titled Northern Visions and opening Friday, Jan. 9 at the POAC Gallery (313 N. Second Ave., in...
SOLE Backcountry Film Festival returns for 21st annual screening
By Reader Staff Selkirk Outdoor Leadership and Education will host its 21st annual Backcountry Film Festival with a screening Friday, Jan. 9 at the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave.). The all-ages event is...
208 Fiction 2026 contest results
Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel...
Afraid to turn away
By Ben OlsonReader Staff With the publication of our fifth annual 208 Fiction winners and honorable mentions in this edition (see Pages 14-16), I thought I’d share one of my own short stories. I...
Top TV of 2025
Or at least the shows I especially liked By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Putting together these end-of-year summary articles is always a somewhat fraught exercise. When it comes to something like “TV shows of the...
Top 10 movies of 2025
By Willie WittezehlerReader Contributor Editor’s note: Willie was press-ganged into providing this “top 10” list of 2025 films during a chance meeting in the alley next to the Reader office. Despite being an all-around...
2026 year in preview
What could be in the coming year By Reader Staff While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting...
Classic canapes for an old-school New Year’s
Spoiler alert: stock up on white bread By Zach HagadoneReader Staff When I’m in a pinch for entertaining, I reach for my trusty Old Mr. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender’s Guide, fifth edition, published...
