A lot has changed in the world of music since the days when Elvis shocked the world with his swiveling pelvis and the mere sight of a Beatle caused fainting spells. While we once had collectible album covers designed by real artists, music now travels through the air and is stored in the cloud. Concerts that were once highlights of the social calendar can be seen online from anywhere at any time.

If you’ve ever wanted to show up to a dignified community event in your pajamas, now's your chance, since the Oregon Coast Community College Foundation’s third annual Pearls of Wisdom has gone virtual.

Handweaver Linda Borntrager will pop open a trunk full of vests, shawls and jackets for her show at the Lincoln City Cultural Center Fiber Arts Studio Gallery, running from Thursday, Feb. 4 through Sunday, March 28.

Toledo, the small town with the big arts community, will continue to demonstrate its artistic side during the first First Weekend of the new year on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 5 and 6.

There’s no doubt about it, COVID-19 has put a huge hole in the Central Coast live music scene.  Most venues have fallen silent, but the Drift Inn in Yachats powers on with an entire year’s lineup.

Traditionally, Ken Hobson casts a wide net throughout the state when choosing authors for Driftwood Public Library’s annual Oregon Legacy Literary Series. This year, he’s sticking to the coast for the four fiction and nonfiction authors who will appear each Sunday throughout February.

Buy a sticker, and possibly win something to put it on, in the new online raffle from Tillamook Off Road Trail Alliance, or TORTA.

The Central Coast has a bounty of public art. Try to catch it all in one day and you’ll find yourself boggled by brunch-time. To make it easier to take in, one can divide the offerings into categories, like sculptures or functional art for example. But if you want to take in art on the largest scale, you can’t go wrong with the murals that give color to our coastline.

Anyone who lives at or frequents the Oregon Coast would find it difficult to miss just how embedded crabbing season is within coastal culture.

Join the MidCoast Watersheds Council for a virtual community meeting on Thursday, Feb 4, to learn about the history and possible future of sea otters in Oregon.

Since last fall, the Lincoln City Cultural Center has rallied around the goal of helping survivors of the Echo Mountain Fire by hosting or supporting individual fundraisers, shifting funds from its annual auction and planning an art show to help victims tell their stories.

Skateparks in Oregon are known as some of the country's best, due largely in part to the efforts of Dreamland Skateparks of Lincoln City, which has built parks all over the world, including one of the crown jewels right in their hometown.

Need inspiration to get moving in the new year?  The Newport Recreation Center has just the thing to jump-start your engine with “Newport to Nyssa,” a virtual mileage challenge inspired by Highway 20.

We were all laughing by the time I pulled into the driveway to visit Jean and Don Stuart. To help me find their trailer, sitting on a cement foundation among burned trees, automobiles and other detritus in the fire-ravaged Panther Creek neighborhood, Jean told me to “Look for the star." After watching me drive right past them twice, my eyes squinted, searching for the star at ground level, Jean finally called me and told me to look UP.

The Oregon Coast Council for the Arts is presenting a new series of winter “Art to Go” kits for distance-learning by kids, families and adults throughout Lincoln County. Designed for kids aged six and up, the kits promote creative, project-based learning opportunities and are available through Thursday, March 4, while supplies last.

Flowers native to Oregon are the focus of “Flower Girls,” an exhibit presented by the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts featuring 24 oil paintings by Lincoln County artists Victoria Biedron and Katia Kyte.

It has been roughly a decade since my friend Dennis Gibson, a wheelchair user, gently pointed out that I was often forgetting to include accessibility information in my stories. Dennis passed away in 2017, but since the time he awakened me to my unintentional oversights, many gains have been made to increase access to the trails and beaches that make the Oregon Coast such a treasured place to live and visit.

It’s January 2021 and here we are, still in the throes of the pandemic. Some creative types, like members of Newport’s performing arts community, are working hard to keep the muse alive. 

Fans of wood art should be sure to turn out for the latest exhibit presented by the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, “A Segment of Art,” running through Saturday, March 20, in the Coastal Oregon Visual Artists Showcase at the Newport Visual Arts Center.

Traditionally, the times considered best for whale watching on the Central Coast are the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day and the week of Spring Break. But according to marine biologist and owner of Whale Research EcoExcursions, Carrie Newell, not only can Gray whales be seen here all year, spring is good and summer is best.