Where history and live theater meet
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council is slated to host its first live performance in more than a year, presenting the Living Voices’ production of “Northwest Passages” on Friday, March 19 at...
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Panida pleads for financial support amid pandemic
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Panida Theater released a fundraising letter July 1, calling for support to make it through the remainder of 2020 as the well-loved community landmark feels the effects of...
Between the damned and the damning
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Since 1976, when the United States affirmed the legality of capital punishment, more than 7,800 people have been sentenced to death, 1,517 of which have been executed. The practice...
Battle of the bands
By Reader Staff For decades, the battle has raged: Beatles or Stones? Through their heyday, fans accused London’s Rolling Stones of stealing ideas — even entire albums — from their Liverpool counterparts. At the...
The Renaissandlersance
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Watch Adam Sandler on the Dec. 17, 2019 edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, when the 53-year-old funnyman talks about his surprise critical smash turn in Uncut Gems, and you’ll...
Music from the Heart
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Seeing as most would consider the Panida Theater the heart of the Sandpoint arts scene, it seems particularly fitting that Roger Fisher of the popular ’70s and ’80s band...
High hopes on the slopes
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Some films draw their juice from a stellar ensemble cast. For others, it’s a killer premise. For some, like the 2019 rom-com Olympic Dreams, the setting makes the movie....
Toward a more complex ‘Moses’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Writing for CNN, acclaimed University of Texas at Austin historian, and one of the leading American thinkers on race, Peniel Joseph took up the topic of the 2019 drama-biopic...
Love Letters play perfect for date night
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Panida Theater starts off its 2020 theater season with a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Love Letters, by playwright A.R. Gurney, takes the stage Thursday, Feb....
The Joker and Judy
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred pastimes. Two films released...
