This Friday, March 25, offers a chance to get involved with the Newport Community Health Reads program as it takes close look at “Younger Next Year: live strong, fit, sexy, and smart - until you're 80 and beyond.”

Places where rivers meet the ocean are in constant change, but changes in recent history have been especially broad.

As we near the end of Women's History Month, the Newport Chamber of Commerce is offering the chance to spend a few engaging hours with influential, female business leaders.

“The clay wants the same thing you want,” said ceramic artist and instructor Pam Young during a recent class. “It wants to become something wonderful.”

The Festival of Illusions is back at the Lincoln City Cultural Center for Oregon’s Spring Break and will be chock full of magic tricks, comedy, mentalism and balloons.

Beautiful. Smooth. Medium bodied. Sweet, but not too sweet. I could easily be talking about a person, but I’m not. I’m describing Oregon Pinot Noir wine.

Deep in the hearts of dog owners is the belief that ours are the best creatures to walk on four feet. We also know, in a place that lives a bit deeper, that we might be biased.

To celebrate the 25th year of this popular event, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts presents the Newport Paper & Book Arts Festival Invitational exhibition, open through April 24 in the Runyan Gallery at the Newport Visual Arts Center.

Whether or not your family tree has roots in the Emerald Isle, the new offering from Theatre West in Lincoln City will help you get your Irish on.

Just north of Neskowin on the Oregon Coast, the former horse barn carefully remodeled into the Chapel at Camp Winema provides excellent acoustics with just enough seating for a true chamber music experience. 

The Newport Symphony Orchestra at the Ocean presents a performance devoted to the color and vitality of Mexican traditional and classical music this weekend.

An old English proverb says “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”  Here in the Pacific Northwest, the promise of spring is a welcome relief after a wet winter with shorter days and chilly nights.

Since the first set of golden statuettes were awarded in 1929 for the “best” films and performances of that year, roughly 3,000 “Oscars” have been handed out.

To the sounds of pounding fists and cheering onlookers, Dungeness crabs race their way down a slanted six-lane track as fast as they can.

It’s no surprise that the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, located near the beautiful Cascade Head Preserve, attracts a very high caliber of creative people to its annual residency program.

For whale fans, Spring Break on the Oregon Coast heralds more than a break from classes — it also means that large groups of Gray whales will be passing by on the northern leg of their annual migrations.

As the late winter rains drive worms to the surface of the earth, birds become more abundant on lawns and yards, bringing with them the feeling that spring is on the way.

When Fathoms restaurant in Lincoln City claims to offer one of the best views on the entire coast — it is definitely a view worth checking out.

You can’t fault people in Pacific Northwest coastal communities for fearing earthquakes, including “The Really Big One.”

Follow the path of a butterfly or moth with your eyes. It is never in a straight line, not unlike the course of our minds.