The beaches of Lincoln City are lovely, long and often quite flat, but also have seasonal winds that can rip the beach towel right out of your hands. Leaning in and making lemons out of lemonade, the city hosts two kite festivals each year.

A birthday party is not the usual kind of event put on by the Lincoln City Parks and Recreation Department. But Frank King is not the usual birthday boy.

Elakha is a Chinook trading language word for the sea otter, once plentiful in Oregon’s coastal waters before the fur trade drove them to local extinction.

Enjoy the beautiful campus of the Neskowin Valley School as the school hosts its 40th Annual Harvest Festival this Saturday, Oct. 1.

Oregon Coast artist Carol Shenk will share her work at a number of events this fall, starting with “Tea & Talk” at the Newport Visual Arts Center on Thursday, Oct. 6. Tea and cookies will accompany Shenk’s talk about her art work, new book illustrations and upcoming drawing classes.

If a book begins with “It was a dark and stormy night,” you just know it's going to be good. Well, maybe not. What you can depend on more heavily, though, is the caliber of mystery, science fiction, fantasy and horror authors invited for the annual Dark & Stormy Nights at Lincoln City’s Driftwood Public Library.

The second performance in this year’s Celtic Series, Le Vent du Nord of Québec, lands at the Lincoln City Cultural Center this Sunday, Oct. 2.

Welcome in the Halloween season at the Kilchis River Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze, open each weekend in October beginning this Saturday, Oct. 1. 

Potatoes are the perfect side dish with just about anything. I will eat them in any form I can get: fried, roasted, mashed, it's all good. But there is something unique about a tater tot. They are crispy on the outside and tender and fluffy on the inside. “To tot or not to tot,” that is never the question, at least not for me.

Denizens of the Deep, the Man in the Gray Suit, the Landlord, the Taxman, Leviathan. These are just some shark monikers that evoke fear and apprehension.

Nothing could be more fundamental to the Oregon Coast and its public beaches than sand. We might love the feel of it between our toes, and we might worry if it seems to be eroding away, but we tend not to think about the substance itself.

Mushroom season means fabulous fungi popping up in forests, farmers markets and seasonal menus. And, there is one type that has also been popping up in the news.

The Newport Public Library is welcoming back the littles, and not so littles, with new and returning programs.

On the first weekend of every month, members of the Toledo art community swing open the doors of their studios, galleries and museum for First Weekend, an opportunity for the general public to not just see the art but mix and mingle with the people creating it.

A brand-new collection of expressive abstract paintings by Astoria resident Darren Orange is coming to the Runyan Gallery of the Newport Visual Arts Center.

Monty Alexander makes people smile. Whether it’s listening to the lovely lilt of his soft Jamaican accent as he spins one of his well-told tales or to the music he creates playing piano with the same joy he still has after 50 years at the keys, his happiness is infectious.

Beachcrest Brewing Company owners Amy and Matt White know how much we at the TODAY appreciate a good pun. But they admit they were not thinking of us when naming their now-annual OktoberCrest, taking place this Friday Sept. 23, through Sunday, Sept. 25.

Cannabis is considered to be one of the most stigmatized medicines, but businesses like Lincoln City Collective are diligently working to help people un-learn the biases they might have about the plant.

No period of music will be left behind at the fall Spotlight on the Teachers Benefit Concert “Classics You Love” this Sunday, Sept. 25, at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

Arcoíris Cultural, an Olalla Center program, will host the second edition of the Olalla Cultural Fest this Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Newport Performing Arts Center.