STAGE & SCREEN
MCS features ‘Evening in Vienna’ By Reader Staff Break out your cummerbunds and corsages, because the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint will present a taste of high-style music at 5 p.m., Saturday, March 11 at the Sandpoint Events Center (102 S. Euclid Ave.). “Evening in Vienna” is a special night of dinner, dancing and a live orchestra. MCS will bring joyful themes and dances characteristic of the rich tradition of Viennese folk music to the festive event. The orchestra will play the sounds of the 19th century,
popular among various musical ensembles — mostly trios or quartets made up of instruments such as violin, clarinet, harp, guitar and double bass. “We invite guests to sit back and enjoy a cultural extravaganza never before seen in our town,” MCS stated in a news release. The evening will be catered by Trinity at City Beach and will include dinner, a waltz and music by the live orchestra. There will also be silent and live auctions and a paddle raise. Semi-formal attire is requested — top hats and ball gowns welcome.
One special item up for auction is a 1922 00-18 Martin acoustic guitar with an appraised value of more than $12,000. The guitar is listed as mint condition for playability and excellent condition for structural soundness, needing no maintenance or repairs. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint. There are only a few seats remaining, so anyone interested in attending are asked to call or text Kathi Samuels at 208-946-6882.
Panida to host Oscar Shorts By Reader Staff For your consideration, the Panida offers screening of short films that have been nominated for the annual Academy Awards. Back for its 18th year, the Oscar Shorts will screen Thursday, March 9-Sunday, March 12. Categories range from live action, documentary and animation. Each short will be played twice (except for documentary films) and audience members can purchase tickets for just one category or buy a package to view all three. The animation category features two showings: 7 p.m. on March 9 and 2:30 p.m. on March 12. The approximate runtime is 95 minutes for the films, including An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I think I Believe It, The Flying Sailor, Ice
Merchants, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse and My Year of Dicks, the latter a short film intended for adult audiences. The documentary category will have one showing at 7 p.m. on March 10. With a runtime of 165 minutes, films will include How Do You Measure a Year?, The Elephant Whisperers, Stranger at the Gate, Haulout and The Martha Mitchell Effect. Finally, the live action shorts will show twice, at 2:30 p.m. on March 11 and 6 p.m. on March 12. With a runtime of 110 minutes, this category includes films Ivalu, Night Ride, Le Pupille, The Red Suitcase
The Panida Theater is finishing its run of stand-up comedy with Phillip Kopczynski Presents Comedy Avalanche featuring Auggie Smith on Saturday, March 11. Smith is no stranger to the stage, being a 30-year veteran of stages the world over. Born in Santa Rosa, Calif.; raised in Billings, Mont.; and now a resident of L.A., Smith has been a radio regular on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Show, seen on Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham in 2006, appeared on Last Comic Standing in 2007 and even won accolades as the Club Comic of the Year at the Aspen Comedy Festival. As if that’s not prestigious enough, Smith also won both the Seattle and San Francisco International Comedy Competitions in 2010 — the only comedian so far to do so, and joining such illustrious comic company as Mitch Hedberg, Dana Carvey and Sinbad, all of whom have won one or
the other of the competitions. (As Smith’s online bio points out, Robin Williams, Ellen Degeneres and Dane Cook all took second place in San Francisco). For a taste of Smith’s high-energy delivery, check out the trailer to his Dry Bar Comedy show “Auggie Smith: Old Dad,” in which riffs “on the subjects of child leashes, poison control or wedding vows,” with the club promising that “Auggie will singe your eyebrows with red-hot truth.” Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at panida.org/event/ auggie-smith. The PG-13 show will begin at 8 p.m. with doors opening one hour prior. The Panida is located at 300 N. First Ave. in downtown Sandpoint. An opener has yet to be scheduled.
By Ben Olson Reader Staff
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The amount of money organizers and/ or promoters of live shows that feature “sexual conduct” can be sued for each violation of the proposed Idaho House Bill 265. Potential plaintiffs would have four years to file suit. The bill was presented by Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, and the Idaho Family Policy Center, a conservative Christian organization. The latter said they wrote the bill in response to drag shows held at Pride festivals in Coeur d’Alene and Boise last year.
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A still frame from the animated short The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Courtesy photo. and An Irish Goodbye. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for youth and seniors per category. Get a three-film punch card to watch all categories for $25. For more information, visit panida.org.
Stand-up comic Auggie Smith set to play the Panida By Reader Staff
BY THE NUMBERS
The number of absentee ballots cast in the Idaho 2022 general election, representing 21% of the nearly 600,000 total ballots cast. If HB 259 is passed into law, only a county clerk, election official, officer or employee of the state authorized by law would be able to distribute absentee ballot application forms. Jason Lehosit, the deputy policy director for the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office, said Idaho’s existing system already succeeds at balancing access and security. “This legislation gives more control to government and adds unneeded red tape and regulation to a process which has already been working,” Lehosit told legislators.
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The percentage of American motorists who are nervous about the use of self-driving cars, an increase from the 55% who said the same last year. Only 23% of motorists said they trust self-driving vehicles, a decrease of 30%.
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Auggie Smith will perform at the Panida Theater Saturday, March 11. Courtesy photo.
The number of feet of snow that has fallen since October at the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory near Donner Pass — more than any snow year since 1970, and second only to the record of 66.7 feet in 1952. The state’s snowpack on Feb. 28 was 186% of normal to date. March 9, 2023 / R / 19