Emily Articulated: Accurate holiday music
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist This holiday season, although resembling “normal,” is likely to feel different for a lot of us. The same old songs, belted by Mariah Carey or crooned by Michael Buble,...
Category: Opinion
‘Where everybody knows your name’
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Without fail, if I hear the Cheers theme song, I’m instantly transported back to a cozy past era. “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” composed by Gary Portnoy and Judy...
Emily Articulated: Entertainment
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist With winter nights wrapping their arms around our daylight hours, and midnight darkness inching its way toward 4 p.m., I’ve had to turn indoors for my recreation. Like many...
Stephen Drinkard, all and everything for a purposeful life
Longtime Sandpoint resident Stephen Charles Drinkard, 77, died Saturday, Oct. 30 at Bonner General Health after weeks of fighting a breakthrough COVID pneumonia he contracted while hospitalized for a surgery in Coeur d’Alene. His...
Back of the Book: On losing
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff I hate losing. I am competitive, to a fault. There are a variety of factors that made me this way. It’s partially hereditary (thank you, mom), but also a...
Emily Articulated: Autumn
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist This early fall was the most beautiful I can remember since living in Idaho. Driving down side streets and walking through winding alleys was like entering a kaleidoscope of...
Back of the Book:
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Clubs have never really been my thing. I’ve always preferred to either do things alone or tell other people what to do. Thus the life of a writer and...
The cult of a thousand cuts
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In 1978, more than 900 people committed mass suicide by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. The people belonged to a group called Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, but it will...
The Lumberjill
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Staff As the lone female on the crew, the bathroom situation is typically the most challenging for me. While the guys can simply sidle up to a tree or...
Emily Articulated: 1 Star
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist In my most recent article, I doled out “5-Star” reviews of the people and businesses that make this community great. I applauded the organizations and institutions that fill our...
