Holiday Gift Guide: Weird gifts for your weird friends and family
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For many, the holiday season can be a time of anxiety due to a lack of creativity when it comes to giving gifts. That’s why the Reader offers a guide...
Category: Arts & Culture
A bevy of winter fairs
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Thanksgiving is barely in the rearview mirror, and the first week of December is already jam-packed with winter fairs to help everyone check off their holiday gift lists. A bevy...
Celebrate the season with The Gothard Sisters
By Reader Staff There are many sounds that define the Christmas season: sleigh bells, the crunch of boots on freshly fallen snow, the quiet tinkle of an old vinyl record in another room. In...
POAC hosts The Art of Giving: A Holiday Showcase
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council’s fifth annual The Art of Giving: A Holiday Showcase will open its doors Friday, Dec. 5 and run from 5-7 p.m. at the POAC Gallery (313...
Reader accepting submissions for fifth annual 208 Fiction writing contest
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff While it’s hard to believe the Reader’s annual 208 Fiction contest is coming up on its fifth anniversary, they do say “truth is stranger than fiction.” Submissions for the writing...
Music Conservatory presents Music Matters! Christmas Concert
By Reader Staff The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint has introduced countless students to music through its Music Matters! after-school program over the years. Now, the student performers in the youth orchestra, choir, handbell choir...
‘Something for everyone’
Felicia Willow Little Shop opens at Panida Theater storefront By Ben OlsonReader Staff Felicia Willow has been excited to open a brick-and-mortar shop to display and sell her unique jewelry, metalworking, decor and fashion...
Give Thanks for the Wild
Two decades of gratitude By Phil HoughReader Contributor The Reader and the Friends of Scotchman Peak Wilderness both turn 21 in the coming months, passing into adulthood. For readers who haven’t heard the news,...
Local photographer Woods Wheatcroft to release 2026 calendar with party at IPA
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff While the phrase “it’s that time of year again” has entered cliche territory, it’s literally “that time of year again” when the calendar is nearing its annual expiration date and...
Ken Burns’ new American Revolution docuseries is a revelation
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff There’s never a bad time to explore and consider the origin story of the United States, but now feels like a particularly relevant period for reexamining who we are and...
