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Shawl we go?

The Fiber Arts Studio Gallery in Lincoln City is always awash with color, now more than ever thanks to the current trunk show, featuring woven items from Linda Gettmann and Charlene Virts, on display and for sale through April 23.

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Camp out and create in Newport

Registration is open now for a summer of fun for creative kids.

Newport’s Visual Arts and Performing Arts Centers offer six weeks of fun and engaging visual and performing arts camps for kids in first through 12th grades.

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Work out your plan for aging

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.”

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An estuary story

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

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Business leaders with the XX factor

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.

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Can you handle ceramics class?

“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.”

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It’s a kind of magic

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.

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Ready for something Noir?

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.

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Dogs make grrreat therapists

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.

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Paper exhibit makes the cut

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.

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Theatre West has the inside story

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.

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Enjoy a little music in Neskowin

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. 

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Yachats is all set for the equinox

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.

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It’s shorts season

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.

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You have to cara-pace yourself

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.

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Hope to see you there

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.

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Get drone in to this talk

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.

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Bird is the word in Lincoln City

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.

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Real depth of flavor

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.

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