By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Sandpoint City Council at its regular meeting Nov. 2 unanimously approved a trio of requests from Derek Mulgrew, who is developing Phase 4 of the University Place housing...
By Zach Hagadone Special to the Reader This article is Part 1 of the conclusion to a series of articles supported by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council and sponsored by Friends of...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff My grandma was a puzzler. Not necessarily in personality — though some others may disagree — but in the sense that she liked brain teasers. Crosswords in particular. I...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Some activities seem to have everything going for them. Sabrage, or the art of opening a bottle of champagne with a saber, must be high on the list. It...
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...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When I screwed up and spelled “Tolkien” wrong exactly seven times (including in the headline) of a TV review in the Sept. 8 paper, my first impulse was to...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It has taken 10 years, many miles and more car barfs, backseat brawls and emergency roadside pit stops than I care to recall (including an apocalyptic diaper eruption six...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Few fruits can claim such iconic status as the pineapple. Cultivated for centuries — maybe millenia — by the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean,...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Bonner County kids of a certain vintage and/or sensibility will know what I mean when I refer to the Dufort Mall. In fact, they’ll also know that we have...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Any halfway diligent reader of the Reader since December 2004 is familiar with my coverage of city decisions, trends and politics. They may also have noticed that I don’t...
