‘Ready to be heard’
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Just after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal right to abortion, Sandpoint woman Jen Jackson Quintano found herself eager …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Just after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal right to abortion, Sandpoint woman Jen Jackson Quintano found herself eager …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The Gothard Sisters came upon Celtic music by chance, and the subsequent musical journey has been nothing short of remarkable.
Real-life sisters Greta, Solana and …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Sarah Vos, vocalist and guitarist for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Dead Horses, describes the folk band’s 2022 album Brady Street as a “coming-of-age” work. It’s a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
When Heartwood Center manager and Mattox Farm Productions founder Robb Talbott told the Reader that he would be striving to bring variety to the newly …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Mattox Farm Productions is now officially managing Sandpoint’s Heartwood Center, and is launching into this new era the best way founder Robb Talbott knows how: …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
When Robb Talbott and his wife, Tasha, launched Mattox Farm Productions in Sandpoint five years ago, the mission was simple: host live music from quality …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bianca d’Avila do Prado fell in love with Sandpoint before she moved here.
She visited in December 2020 to meet with instructors at the Suzuki …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
In 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shephard was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyo. — a murder that was denounced as a hate crime since …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
They don’t call dogs a man’s best friend for no reason.
“Sylvia,” the latest play from Cade Prophet Memorial Productions, takes that basic truth to …
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