Celebrating 54 years of the Sandpoint Arts and Crafts Fair
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council will take over downtown Sandpoint for its 54th annual Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday, Aug. 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Aug....
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Idaho Community Foundation grants $94K to BoCo arts, human rights organizations
By Reader Staff Local organizations focused on access to the arts and supporting human rights received $94,300 in grants from the Idaho Community Foundation, with awards drawn from the community-created Bonner County Fund for...
PNW Latin band Milonga to headline Summer Series July 23
By Reader Staff Spokane’s hottest Latin band Milonga will play the next Sandpoint Summer Series at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 23 in Farmin Park (Third Avenue and Main Street). The free outdoor concert...
Rise of the Pend Oreille Phoenix
Terry Anderson launches his final boat after a lifetime of tinkering and building By Ben OlsonReader Staff For most people, dragging a 50-foot long and 20-foot-wide sailboat down an incline into the lake using...
Sandpoint Summer Series kicks off its 7th year of free outdoor concerts with Boot Juice
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the past seven years, Robb Talbott with Mattox Farm Productions has hosted the Sandpoint Summer Series, a free outdoor concert at Farmin Park in Sandpoint. Thanks to generous local...
Connie Scherr honored as POAC’s 2026 Artist of the Year
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council has selected artist Connie Scherr as its 2026 artist of the year, celebrating her decades spent capturing the beauty of North Idaho with paint and canvas....
There are 2.5 million reasons to like this store
By Chuck MalloyReader Contributor As any store manager can attest, retail is a tough business, and good help is hard to find. Not so much with Bizarre Bazaar, Sandpoint’s “upscale resale store,” which is...
POAC hosts Confluence: Six Women in Contemporary Practice
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council’s newest installment of its First Friday Series, Confluence: Six Women in Contemporary Practice, will debut Friday, May 1 with an opening reception at the POAC Gallery...
Tricks, jokes and shenanigans galore
Prop comic The Zaniac performs at the Panida By Reader Staff Hailing from Seattle — where he was voted best prop comic — magician, comedian and all-around entertainer The Zaniac is a man of...
Second Life: Art from the Unexpected returns to POAC Gallery
By Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council will display the second installment of Second Life: Art from the Unexpected, an exhibition featuring art made from “upcycled, recycled, repurposed and found materials,” beginning Friday,...
