2023 game of the year: Baldur’s Gate 3
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Contributor I never played any Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, but I always wished I did. When I rolled that famous 20-sided die for the first time, I was...
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2023 game of the year: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The mark of an incredible game is the ability to return to it in different moods and stages of life and have the experience be as exhilarating as the...
208 Fiction competition results
Welcome to the third annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited any and all writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel of...
Andor brings grown-up storytelling to Star Wars
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Empires by definition are so huge that they bend reality to their shape — so much so that their subjects often forget they live in one. People are especially...
Nature and narrative
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff As decades of language arts teachers have told us, there are four central forms of conflict inherent in any narrative: character vs. character, character vs. society, character vs. self...
Do you wanna build a sequel?
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I went to see the first Frozen movie with my three sisters in 2013 as a senior in high school. My baby sister was 11 years old at the...
More than craft beer
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Indecision can sometimes be fortuitous. Early in the planning process for what would become Utara Brewing Co., husband-and-wife owners Dave Kosiba and Christina Stecher were split on what direction...
Home away from home
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Stepping into The Longshot cafe feels a bit like stepping outside of Sandpoint — in a good way. Though located in the former Wrenco Arms buildings on the busy...
Not your average rap album
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The stereotypes that accompany contemporary rap music are not the same stereotypes that accompany being a 21-year-old college-educated white female in North Idaho. Thanks to this unlikely pairing,...
