Your guide to Halloween weekend on the Central Oregon Coast

Tillamook Air Museum lives!

Ten months after storm damage closed the museum indefinitely, it is set to hold a public grand reopening event on Thursday, Oct. 29.

America, in 1902, was still 12 years away from World War I. The average life expectancy was 47 years old, only 14 percent of households had a bathtub and women would wait nearly another two decades before being granted the right to vote.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and a sharp, darkly funny “Hamlet” will bring it into focus on the big screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

The Yachats Commons will host a closer look at the Black women who helped shape Oregon’s early communities when Mariah Rocker presents “Early Black Women of the Willamette Valley” this Sunday, Nov. 1.

The Aces Banquet Room in Lincoln City will come alive with costumes and dance-floor fun when Beach Buddies holds its fourth annual Halloween Costume Dance Party this Saturday, Oct. 31.

The FisherPoets Gathering, a rollicking, three-day celebration of poetry, song and commercial fishing that draws around 2,300 people to Astoria each winter, is coming to Newport, Lincoln City and four other Oregon Coast towns this month.

Plan your schedule for the perfect spooky celebration.

What’s the opposite of the iconic Seinfeld line: “No soup for you”? An annual event in Tillamook might just have the answer.

Five decades of conservation, research and community stewardship will be celebrated with film, poetry and a specially brewed beer when the Cascade Head Biosphere Region celebrates its 50th anniversary on Tuesday, Oct. 27.

A haunted carousel spins. An ancient curse stirs. Somewhere in the band, a rubber chicken is about to make its entrance.

The forests of the Oregon Coast have long provided inspiration and raw material for woodworkers. A new exhibit at the Newport Visual Arts Center will show what happens when that connection meets the lathe.

Those peaceful, easy harmonies that helped make the Eagles one of rock’s most enduring bands will fill the Newport Performing Arts Center when tribute band Eagle Eyes takes the stage this Friday, Oct. 23.

Mushroom lovers, foragers, families and fungi enthusiasts are invited to Yachats for one of the community’s most anticipated weekends of the year.

Fiddles, harps, pipes, accordions and centuries of musical tradition will fill the Lincoln City Cultural Center this fall, winter and spring as the center embarks on an eight-concert journey through the music of Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Québec and beyond.

If indeed there is an underbelly to humanity, a Tennessee Williams' play has a knack for turning to and tickling it.

Break out the team jerseys, or just some orange and black, and get ready to show some Tiger pride when the Taft Tiger Booster Club hosts its Annual Fall Auction in Lincoln City on Saturday, Oct. 24.

Photography is in focus at the Blue Water Fine Art Gallery in Rockaway Beach with “Through Many Lenses,” a group exhibition featuring work by members of the Portland Photographers Forum.

Zombies and the mother-daughter relationship might not seem like natural literary companions, but author Lynda Melban White has found room for both in her latest novel.

A walk on the beach with your dog is already a pretty good way to spend an October morning on the Oregon Coast.