Dreaming of snow: POAC Winter Mosaic
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The Pend Oreille Arts Council will unveil its newest exhibit, Winter Mosaic, at a free reception Friday, Jan. 5, from 5-7 p.m. at its new space, located at 313...
Category: Arts & Culture
Movies coming up in 2024
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Over the course of the new year, Hollywood will embrace its growing trend of trodding familiar ground. While there are some intriguing original film concepts to be excited about,...
Top TV of 2023
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff More than a few cultural observers have opined that we’re living in a “Golden Age of TV,” and that may be true, but those same observers have been saying...
2024 year in preview
By Reader Staff We don’t want some of this to come true, nor do we wish to give anyone any ideas, but as is our custom, the Reader staff presents its annual list of...
The Reader 2.0 approaches a decade back from the dead
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With the dawn of a new year, the Reader passed an important milestone: The second iteration of our alt-weekly (started in January 2015) is officially older than the first...
Revel in the sound
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s a glorious time to be a musician. Gone is the strict adherence to genres and narrow creative lanes, replaced with the realization that performers can make whatever type...
2023 on the big screen
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Even if my only job at the Reader was to watch movies and TV series, there would be no way to catch them all. I only saw about 20...
YEAR IN REVIEW: 2023
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff We’ve been doing these retrospectives every year since 2020, and so far the ’20s have lived up to their reputation for being “roaring.” Just reading the list of big...
A few thoughts… on holy holidays
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” asserts the song. The reference of lyricists Edward Pola and George Wyle and performer Andy Williams was, of course, to the...
Slouching toward mayhem
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff By their nature, apocalypse movies are unsubtle. Regardless of the trappings, every film in the genre follows the same basic narrative arc: one day things are normal, the next...
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