Writing the book about snow safety
By Ben Olson Reader Staff To say Liam FitzGerald spent his career battling avalanches is putting it lightly. His long career began in 1968, when he got a ski patrol job at Squaw Valley...
Category: Arts & Culture
That one time AI killed me
By Ben Olson Reader Staff “O brave new world, that has such people in it!” — William Shakespeare (or maybe it was a bot that said this. Who knows anymore?) Journalists are used to covering...
Mad About Science: Arquebuses, blunderbusses and muskets
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve explored the history of firearms before, but several thousand years is hard to cover in a page. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the...
Michael Franti and Spearhead with SOJA to return to the Festival At Sandpoint
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint announced the return of a crowd favorite for Thursday, Aug. 3; Michael Franti and Spearhead with SOJA. Franti and Spearhead are no strangers to the Festival at...
Little big death
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The thing about apocalypses is that they happen to everyone, and anything that happens to everyone all at once really freaks us out. I suspect this has something to...
Outside the stacks
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The East Bonner County Library District has already proved itself committed to expanding the library’s reach beyond the walls of its brick-and-mortar branches by offering services through the Bookmobile,...
One man’s (gently used) trash
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff After I wrote a story about tips and tricks for successful thrift shopping in the Jan. 19 edition of the Reader, I received an email from Cherie Warber, co-manager...
Mad About Science: Muppets and puppets
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.” — Jim Henson Puppetry is...
Festival at Sandpoint announces REO Speedwagon
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint has released its lineup announcement for the 2023 summer concert series, with REO Speedwagon set to take the stage on Friday, Aug. 4. Tickets are now on...
Prepare to boogie
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff Separately, the members of the Baja Boogie Band are all wildly talented and seasoned musicians. Together, they’ve created something that audiences across North American have come to know as...
