Sound and color
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Growing up in Ventura, Calif., Berto Boyd remembers being surrounded by creative and talented people. He also recalls how drugs and gangs were becoming more prominent. “I was always...
Tagged: Hannah Combs
First Friday event benefits downtown
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Construction got you down? Head downtown Friday, Oct. 4 from 4-7 p.m. for the Sandpoint Shopping District’s “First Friday Event,” celebrating local merchants affected by downtown street reconstruction. Participating...
POAC Arts & Crafts Fair returns to downtown for second year
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s the 47th year for the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s Arts & Crafts Fair, but only the second in which the annual event has taken place in downtown Sandpoint. ...
ArtWalk encore
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Those who missed the opening ArtWalk 2019 receptions are in luck: venues for the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s 42nd ArtWalk will host another round of receptions Friday, July 26....
The art of advocacy
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council has been without an executive director for a couple of years now. With the position in limbo, Arts Administrator Hannah Combs and a handful...
Northern Stars Rising at the Heartwood Center
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Coming back for a second year after a spectacular 2018 debut, the Northern Stars are rising again. The auditions, rehearsals and endless practice sessions are coming to an end,...
POAC presents Cirque Zuma Zuma
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s not every day that a Top 10 act from “America’s Got Talent” makes it to Sandpoint, so when Cirque Zuma Zuma graces the Panida stage on Feb. 2...
Bringing history alive
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For history buffs, there’s nothing better than watching history come alive. History will indeed spring to life on Friday, Jan. 11, with Living Voices’ production of “Our Revolution” at...
Iceland: Come for the saudfé. Stay for the ævintyre.
By Hannah Combs Reader Contributor Even when the whole world has been found, there is a frontier of personal experience that cannot be exhausted by a lifetime of curiosity. Oops, wrong page. The shape...
A storyteller’s homecoming
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When reading up on Runaway Symphony, those seeking a simple genre label risk being misled. The word “folk” may jump out, but upon listening to the multi-layered, dramatic instrumentation...
