‘Part of the family’
Kathy Chambers shares the joy of hosting foreign exchange students through Sandpoint Rotary By Ben OlsonReader Staff After hosting foreign exchange students in her Sandpoint home over the years, Kathy Chambers now hopes to...
Tagged: culture
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...
To all the books I’ve loved before
By Ben Olson Reader Staff After Ötzi the Iceman was discovered frozen in the Eastern Italian Alps, scientists examined the contents of his stomach to learn what types of foods he ate 5,300 years...
Emily Articulated: Coffee (shop) filters
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I had a thought the other day, and it was something along the lines of, “Do I even like the clothes I pick out for myself? I feel like...
Season’s greetings Sandpoint residents!
By Sandpoint Mayor Jeremy Grimm Reader Contributor In the coming days, many of you will be setting resolutions for the new year, reflecting on the past with gratitude, giving thought, and setting intentions and...
Emily Articulated: The Nacirema Tribe
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist One of the first groups of people I studied in my Introduction to Anthropology course in college was the Nacirema, a tribe of humans still alive and prevalent in...
Morocco makes progress — politically, culturally and economically
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Known as the “Door to the Sahara Desert,” Morocco and its great cities Casablanca, Tangier, and Marrakesh symbolize everything exotic about Arabic culture. The films “Gladiator,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Black...
Flappers, not hippies, started it all
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Editor’s Note: While the rest of Sandpoint dives into the 1950s this weekend, Reader contributor Tim Henney explores another decade: the Roaring ‘20s. Movies and memoirs say America’s hedonistic,...
