Lifestyles of the rich and worthless
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Most sources credit Jean-Jacques Rousseau with writing, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” No one knows for …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Most sources credit Jean-Jacques Rousseau with writing, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” No one knows for …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Calling the 1995 Disney-Pixar animated film Toy Story a cultural juggernaut is no exaggeration.
From its then-cutting edge computer-generated graphics depicting the sentient denizens of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
A lot of reviews of The Substance are filled with thinky references to an uncommonly large number of other films, from Carrie to The Shining, …
By Reader Staff
Some may not know that writer-director Christopher Guest is also a baron and member of the British House of Lords. What everyone already does know is that …
By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist
What if you never had to think about work outside of the office again? No stress, no emails, no lingering dread of Monday mornings. The …
By Reader Staff
As part of Sandpoint’s annual Winter Carnival, the Kaniksu Land Trust will host the premiere of the short film The Sled Hill at the Panida Theater (300 …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Anyone who doesn’t know the name “Jim Henson” should go sit in a corner and think about their life choices. The legendary creator of the …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Anyone who works in local media knows the peculiar exhaustion that goes with covering the same event year after year. There are only so many …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When director/co-writer Mike Cheslik gave an interview to the Associated Press about his black-and-white, mostly silent slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers last year, he said, …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Of the many hazards of being an artistic trailblazer is that your creations turn into tropes while your hand in inventing them gets forgotten.
That’s …
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