Tabula rasa?
By Tim HenneyReader Contributor John McPhee of The New Yorker is one of America’s most gifted and celebrated authors, journalists and columnists. Just writing about him makes me nervous, because although he and I...
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The Heartwood Center hosts stand-up comic Liz Miele
By Reader Staff New York-based stand-up Liz Miele is coming to Sandpoint with a doubleheader at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 9 at the Heartwood Center (615 Oak St.). Miele has...
The best albums of 2025
A totally biased opinion from a musical office By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff This year was a horrible, no good, very bad page of the calendar; yet, despite the pain — or perhaps because of...
Holiday Gift Guide: Last minute gifts
By Zach Hagadoneand Soncirey MitchellReader Staff We’re entering the final innings of the holiday shopping season, with workplace and neighborhood parties populating the calendar even as the days are winding down to the Main...
In praise of ‘performative reading’
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The New Yorker carried an interesting piece on its website Dec. 2 titled “Now Watch Me Read,” in which Brady Brickner-Wood explores the idea of “performative reading.” That is, the...
