It’s re-use at its finest, when the former Devils Lake fireworks barge takes on a new guise as a floating stage for the inaugural Float-In Brown Bag Concert series.

Pick your style of music, preferred venue and even favorite seat: the Siletz Bay Music Festival is back, with tickets now on sale.

The Summer Reading Program at Lincoln City’s Driftwood Public Library is already underway, offering plenty of opportunities to discover how “Reading Colors Your World.”

I challenge you to walk through a mall following behind a 14-month-old goat kid and not smile the whole time.

A summer full of art and fun for kids in grades K through 12 is already in progress at the Bay City Arts Center, free for all participants from any school district and county.

The Lincoln City Cultural Center has a lot to offer those in search of entertainment. A great big auditorium for live events, studios for art and exercise and, perhaps most importantly now that summer is here, a great big lawn.

International artist Sam Hamilton relies heavily on the ocean for his multi-media work, but it wasn’t until he stumbled upon Lincoln City-based Activate Arts that he decided to throw a wider net to find parts for his current project.

Cascade Head isn’t just a great place for Instagram-worthy photos. It’s the only UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the Oregon Coast and also home to one of Oregon’s precious marine reserves.

Get ready for a colorful summer of reading and events at Toledo Public Library revolving around the theme, “Reading Colors Your World.”

The Oregon Coast Aquarium’s newest exhibit, “Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline,” is open now, featuring artwork by honorary Oregonian Ray Troll.

Sitka Sedge is located about a mile south of Whalen Island and three miles north of Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda.

The Lincoln City Playhouse is back at it again with its third play in three months.

Beat feet down to the Yachats Commons Pavilion this Sunday, June 20, for the Summer Solstice Shuffle, featuring live music, food and beverages.

The Oregon Coast Community Drum Circle has resumed its summer program of free live community performance events.

You are cordially invited to Newport’s Visual Arts Center to view “Oregon Cordially,” a show by Reedsport-based painter Elyan Jamot.

It’s promising to be a banner summer with long, warm, sunny days here on the Central Coast. Magnificent sunsets and wide, sandy beaches beckon tourists from the Valley and points north, south and east. Locals enjoy these same coastal delights.

UPDATE: The Port of Toledo has announced that the Teak Lady Sail scheduled for this weekend June 11-13 has been cancelled due to inclement weather.
The event will be rescheduled for a later date this summer.
For more information contact the Port of Toledo at 541-336-5207 or info@portoftoledo.org

“Rabbit, rabbit.”
OK, I don’t get it. How is saying “Rabbit, rabbit” or a rabbit’s foot good luck? And how is a rabbit’s foot good luck for the dead rabbit?

Let’s face it, graduation ceremonies can drag longer than the robes that some graduates get stuck with because they ordered too late. 

Soar into Manzanita’s Hoffman Gallery and check out the latest chapter in its monthly art shows with June featured artists Poppy Dully and Emilio Lobato, who inject magic into everyday objects.