By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in the U.S. Christmas wasn’t...
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint’s Youth Orchestra will perform its Winter Concert at the Heartwood Center on Monday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m. All ages are welcome and admission is free. Classes...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The idea of a “weird gift” might make locals reminisce on the store Zany Zebra — may it rest in peace — which sold such oddities as squirrel underpants...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but somehow over the past dozen or so years I turned into a Scrooge on Bob Cratchit wages (which I find online...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For such a small town, Sandpoint has always been blessed with an inordinately high number of talented musicians. One of the more prolific artists in town is Chris Paradis,...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I confess, I’m a sucker for war films. Iconic entries in the genre like Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk are cinematic masterpieces, blending...
By Barbara Russell Reader Contributor Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide annually on Dec. 10 to commemorate the day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which this...
By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist I first watched the original Sex and the City TV series in my late teens (my older sister handing down her DVD box set like a family heirloom) and...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff If an advanced civilization of sentient rocks, or perhaps gaseous clouds, came to Earth in their starships, how would they perceive us? Would they recognize that humanity is made...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It was the day before Halloween when I heard the first Christmas song of 2023. I was thumbing through some costume ideas at a local store (which shall remain...
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Curious about what media the locals use? Check our 2018 Local Media Survey. GO SEE »
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Outdoor music, an Art Reception, Fourth of July fun, Beer Fest, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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