Summer is over and fall is here, but Toledo is keeping the coast colorful with First Weekend, a celebration of its vibrant arts community. The event offers the chance to connect with local artists at galleries and studios on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 2 and 3.

Even if you don’t have school-aged kids, the fact that the Neskowin Valley School is open again is great news, because reopening means the school’s treasured harvest festival is back, too.

Composer Ernest Bloch’s career took him all over the world but, during the latter part of his life, he and his wife chose to land in Newport’s Agate Beach area.

The eighth edition of The North Coast Squid is being released, and the party will last all month.

 The walls of the Newport Visual Arts Center are going to be almost dripping with new art during October.

The Celtic Music Series will start off hot, when celebrated guest soloist Eileen Ivers brings her Universal Roots band to the Lincoln City Cultural Center for a remarkable in-person concert this Sunday, Oct. 3.

The party that signals the start of fall is back, returning to the Newport Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1 and 2. The doors will open to a sizzling lineup of musicians guaranteed to thrill both devoted fans and newcomers to the jazz music scene.

No matter how you set the mood, you can make the venue as creepy as you want for Driftwood Public Library’s 18th annual Dark and Stormy Nights series, as this year’s mystery writers will be presenting virtually.

You don’t need an excuse to grab a beer and celebrate with your loved ones But if you are looking for one, the perfect opportunity has arrived.

Cascade Head has been a source of fun and frustration since I moved to Oregon.

This is the story of a very popular Lincoln City art project, started quietly by someone who saw potential in a rather lofty tree stump, and the receptive city department that ran with her idea to turn it into art.

The bidding has begun, but you can still bring home a banner created by one of 36 Oregon Coast artists.

Recent breast cancer survivors Sonia Graham and Jeanette Campagna decided to create something good out of something bad by launching a fund-raiser to help breast cancer patients in their own community.

Some of the most talented music teachers on the Oregon Coast will demonstrate their skills at a “Piano Extravaganza” this Sunday, Sept. 26, at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

October is the perfect time to fall into learning as the Oregon Coast Community College returns to providing in-person opportunities to learn from some of the coast’s most interesting locals and guest lecturers.

It’s not easy to be a silent movie fan. Poor storage techniques and a fire that devastated the silent film archives of two major studios in the 1930s have contributed to the sad fact that only about a quarter of the original films made remain.

What do you imagine when seeing “goat” and “yoga” strung together into one, presumably rational phrase?

This is a detour into time and history rather than spaces along the Oregon Coast Trail (OCT). I hope this diversion increases your wonder at what is constantly around us.

When you build an amphitheater, it’s only natural to want to show it off. And B’nai B’rith Camp in Lincoln City will do just that when renowned pianist Michael Allen Harrison and his All-Star Band headline a BBQ and concert on Sunday, Sept. 26.   

You might hike a nature trail for fitness, to give your canine companion new places to sniff or to get that perfect, Instagram-worthy shot. And you might not even think about what it takes to keep those places accessible and maintained.