Top TV of 2023
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
More than a few cultural observers have opined that we’re living in a “Golden Age of TV,” and that may be true, but those same …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
More than a few cultural observers have opined that we’re living in a “Golden Age of TV,” and that may be true, but those same …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With the dawn of a new year, the Reader passed an important milestone: The second iteration of our alt-weekly (started in January 2015) is officially …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s a glorious time to be a musician. Gone is the strict adherence to genres and narrow creative lanes, replaced with the realization that performers …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Even if my only job at the Reader was to watch movies and TV series, there would be no way to catch them all. I …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
We’ve been doing these retrospectives every year since 2020, and so far the ’20s have lived up to their reputation for being “roaring.” Just reading …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” asserts the song. The reference of lyricists Edward Pola and George Wyle and performer Andy Williams was, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
By their nature, apocalypse movies are unsubtle. Regardless of the trappings, every film in the genre follows the same basic narrative arc: one day things …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in …
By Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint’s Youth Orchestra will perform its Winter Concert at the Heartwood Center on Monday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m. All ages are welcome and …
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