Category: Random Digital Madness

208 Fiction / Arts & Culture / Ben Olson / Books / Opinion / Random Digital Madness / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell / Zach Hagadone

January 8, 2025

208 Fiction results for 2025

Here we present the winners of the fourth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for …

Arts & Culture / Featured / Movie Reviews / Movies and Theater / Opinion / Random Digital Madness / Zach Hagadone

January 5, 2025

The films of 2024

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

The past year lacked anything like “Barbenheimer” in more ways than one. No two films captured the cultural imagination like Barbie and Oppenheimer did in …

Ben Olson / BOCC / Bordering on Complete Sanity / Changing Your Mind / Humor / Living Life / Opinion / Politics / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell / Zach Hagadone

January 1, 2025

2025 year in preview

By Reader Staff

Even if you’ve never read any of the works of 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, you’ve probably heard someone repeat his famous line: “A pessimist is an …

Arts & Culture / Back of the Book / Ben Olson / Featured / History / Living Life / Memories / Personal history / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell / Zach Hagadone

December 28, 2024

Notes on a vicennial deadline

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

This week marks 20 years since the first edition of the Sandpoint Reader hit the streets on Dec. 23, 2004. That feels like a trick …

Featured / History / Holiday / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell

December 25, 2024

The white elephant in the room

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

Over the last thousand or so years, the rituals and traditions surrounding Christmas have been solidified in our minds as perfectly ordinary, though they’re anything …

Ben Olson / Dark History / Featured / History / Holiday / Random Digital Madness

December 23, 2024

Con artists, armed Boy Scouts and Santa Claus

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Nobody knows who wrote the first letter to Santa Claus, but the practice didn’t catch on in mainstream America until a con artist named John …

Business / Featured / Holiday / Random Digital Madness / Soncirey Mitchell / Zach Hagadone

December 21, 2024

Gift guide 2024: last-minute treasures

By Soncirey Mitchell
and Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

So, it’s less than a week until Christmas and Hanukkah and you’re looking for last-minute gifts even though you swore you’d be …

Business / Community Happenings / Eats & Drinks / Holiday / Local charities / Random Digital Madness

December 11, 2024

Sandpoint to celebrate its inaugural SantaCon

By Reader Staff

The SantaCon phenomenon is coming to Sandpoint for the first time, with the event scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 14 at Matchwood Brewing Co., as well as locations …

Health / Opening Hearts and Minds / Opinion / Random Digital Madness / Sports and Outdoors

December 11, 2024