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...
Category: Random Digital Madness
A more complete picture of GLP-1 medications
In response to ‘Mad About Science’ By Jim McCabeReader Contributor I cringed at Brenden Bobby’s “Mad about Science” column on Ozempic in the Dec. 18 edition of the Reader. While it contained some factual...
2025 YEAR IN REVIEW
Recapping some of the biggest headlines of the year… pray for us By Zach HagadoneReader Staff At the end of the introductory paragraph in the 2024 “Year in Review,” we congratulated Reader readers on...
Man bites back at dogs
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Among the quickest ways to get yourself in trouble is pointing out that all dogs are not God’s perfect creatures, nor do they belong in every space where humans conduct...
Mad about Science: Ozempic
By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist You’ve probably heard the catchy jingles for Ozempic, a miracle weight loss drug that has been touted by cultural titans like Oprah Winfrey. What is this stuff, where did it...
Don’t give up the light: An allegory
By Ben OlsonReader Staff A long time ago, the people of Sandpoint lived in darkness. When the cold winter months set in, Sandpointians were left to navigate to and from work on streets without...
Lesser-known games to liven up the holidays
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Family and friends coming together for the holidays is the perfect excuse to dust off the board games and reshuffle the cards; and, for most people, that means playing a...
In praise of ‘performative reading’
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The New Yorker carried an interesting piece on its website Dec. 2 titled “Now Watch Me Read,” in which Brady Brickner-Wood explores the idea of “performative reading.” That is, the...
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...
Identify that skull
By Ben OlsonReader Staff Our readers bring some interesting items into the Reader offices from time to time, but Jim Armbruster gets the prize for showing up with the first animal skull. Armbruster said...
