Change is brewing
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Gone, or soon to be gone, are the days when Idaho brewers played second fiddle to the state’s wine industry. A new bill sponsored by Sen. Carl Crabtree, R-Grangeville,...
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That’s a re-wrap
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff So-called “yarn bombing” is usually done in secret. One day, a fence or signpost is just what it appears to be; the next, after a night-time visit from ninja-like...
Full house
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Panida Board of Directors received some homework Feb. 19, as about 25 community members attended its monthly meeting — the most that Chairman Robert Moore reported ever seeing...
Toward a more complex ‘Moses’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Writing for CNN, acclaimed University of Texas at Austin historian, and one of the leading American thinkers on race, Peniel Joseph took up the topic of the 2019 drama-biopic...
Here We Have Idaho: What’s happening at the Idaho Legislature this week
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Grocery taxes Introduced in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Feb. 12, House Bill 494 would increase the grocery tax credit and equalize it for two groups of...
Hitler must die
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Auteur director Quentin Tarantino took some heat from certain quarters for the ending of his 2009 Nazi-Western revenge fantasy flick Inglourious Basterds. If you haven’t seen it yet (hugely...
The Joker and Judy
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred pastimes. Two films released...
Council puts turf out to bid
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The long-debated resurfacing of War Memorial Field with artificial turf took a small but important step forward Feb. 5, when the Sandpoint City Council unanimously voted to permit city...
Racist robocaller Scott Rhodes, who targeted the Reader, faces a $13M fine from FCC
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Since 2015, Sandpoint area residents have received anonymous robocalls attacking a range of targets, including Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad and, beginning in September 2018, Sandpoint Reader Publisher Ben Olson....
Infectious enthusiasm
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to stress how extensively critics have lost their damn minds over Parasite, the South Korean-language film from iconic-director-in-the-making Bong Joon-ho. Released in 2019, the darkly comedic thriller...
