Hair like Erik’s
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The more I came to know the recently departed sage of Sandpoint, Erik Daarstad, the more I thought about moving to Norway.
My God, if …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
The more I came to know the recently departed sage of Sandpoint, Erik Daarstad, the more I thought about moving to Norway.
My God, if …
Erik Daarstad passed away on Monday, March 13, 2023 after a short illness at age 87. He was born on June 27, 1935 in a small mining town located in …
By Erik Daarstad
Reader Contributor
Having grown up during World War II and lived under German occupation for five years, I watched the planes drop the bombs that killed my …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With the advent of new technology and media, the art of storytelling has changed volumes in the millenia humans have inhabited the earth but, at …
By Reader Staff
G-Dog is a film about second chances. The documentary focuses on the charismatic visionary Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who rescued kids from gangs by launching the …
By Erik Daarstad
Reader Contributor
Sandpoint Film Festival has added the showings of two feature documentaries as part of the Festival this year. Showing on Thursday night Nov. 1 at …
By Erik Daarstad
Reader Contributor
Sandpoint Film Festival started nine years ago presenting short films for a one-day festival. SFF is a nonprofit organization started by Janice Jarzabek in an …
By Erik Daarstad
Reader Contributor
Ever since President Trump made the comment in a meeting at the White House about Norwegians vs. inhabitants of certain “s-hole” countries, it has become …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
In the office above the Panida Theater hangs a calendar of epic proportions.
The timeline spans all the way from January 2016 to next …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
“Liza, Liza, Skies are Grey” is something of a departure for legendary local cinematographer Erik Daarstad.
One of the few fictional films he’s undertaken in …
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