It seems to be a trend that as political regimes — even whole civilizations — begin to collapse, people not only keep laughing but laugh louder. The uproarious games and entertainments of the ...

The Panida Theater board of trustees’ monthly meeting March 5 drew a few more spectators than usual. The Little Theater was filled to capacity, with others standing along the back and side walls to ...

For me, the Oscars are basically the Super Bowl. My family has treated them that way for years. We dress up in tuxes and gowns, walk a makeshift red carpet down my aunt and uncle’s hallway, and spend ...

I had a houseful of family over the weekend and, with St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, I first mused about making a recipe to honor our ancestors. Instead, after helping several clients with ...

Kiosks and permit system rolling out by the summer By Zach HagadoneReader Staff After more than a year of planning, deliberation and consultation, the city of Sandpoint took the final step toward ...

Loris Michael (Aug. 21, 1940 – June 22, 2025) The world forever changed on August 21, 1940, when Loris Jeanette Michael entered it on a kitchen table in Ansley, Neb. and changed again on June 22, 2025 ...

TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022. GO READ IT» WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021. GO READ IT» THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, ...

While it may be a fool’s errand to predict the future, we’ve been doing it at the Reader every year since 2020 — getting some things right, or at least half right, and just as many wrong (or half ...

Our legislative session kicked off in Idaho this week. Buckle up. Last year, more than 1,000 bills were written, 789 bills published, about 350 voted on, 322 became law and all in fewer than 90 days.

Here we present the winners of the fifth annual Sandpoint Reader 208 Fiction contest, in which we invited writers to submit a work of fiction totaling exactly 208 words for consideration by a panel of ...

How to help Bonner Homeless Transitions transform lives By Patty Shook Reader Contributor Finding yourself homeless in Sandpoint can feel desperate. Not long ago, Kate and Steve arrived from Utah, ...

They don’t make them like Viggo Mortensen anymore. The soft-spoken, notably un-Hollywood actor, photographer, poet and lover of North Idaho is just about as far from the typical “Hollywood star” as ...