A real “American horror story’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Look past the piety of the Puritans, their stovepipe hats and buckle shoes, and an earnest reader of early American history will find a thick vein of supernatural horror...
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Amazon Prime series ‘Tales from the Loop’ is a gorgeous sci-fi rumination on impermanence
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Science-fiction — at least good science-fiction — confounds our present understanding of ourselves. Far from laser battles and the wonky speculative theory of interstellar travel, the true masterpieces of...
America at the movies
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since the first decades of the 20th century, Americans have received the bulk of their self understanding as a national community from cinema and TV screens. A small but...
City moving forward on Parks and Rec. Master Plan
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint is nearing the finish line in putting into place its Parks and Recreation Master Plan, devoting a substantial period of its City Council meeting June...
Controversial opinion:
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff My wife and I can’t remember when we started reading The Game of Thrones — the first book in fantasy author George R.R. Martin’s yet-to-be finished seven-book series A...
Essential Quarantine Reading
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Odds are that most people remember Daniel Defoe — if they remember him at all — as the author of Robinson Crusoe. That, or they confuse him with the...
Downtown construction to be ‘substantially complete’ by May 14
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Drive through downtown Sandpoint on First Avenue and you’ll see signs of life returning as the phases of Gov. Brad Little’s “Idaho Rebounds” coronavirus reopening plan proceed apace. Most...
A ‘drive-in’ graduation
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Every graduation ceremony is memorable, but, for the senior class of 2020, their big day will go down in history as the first to adapt to the social distancing...
‘This big stink’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Like most people, the period of time since March has been, well, let’s say illuminating for me and mine. I have learned a lot of things about myself —...
‘Building the airplane while we’re flying it’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Trying to describe the rollout, administration and distribution of funds from the Paycheck Protection Program, national media headlines in recent weeks have been filled with words like “chaos,” “extremely...
