A new season of the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts, Live in HD, returns with 10 performances on the big screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

You’ve turned out a bunch of pages in a burst of inspiration or the marathon of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month.

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Hold on to your seat and prepare to laugh out loud when David Lindsay-Abaire’s bewitchingly absurd dark comedy, “Fuddy Meers,” opens at the Newport Performing Arts Center this Friday, Oct. 14.

The COVID pandemic kept the Yachats Village Mushroom Festival in the dark for the past two years, but it’s back in all its glory from Friday, Oct. 14, through Sunday, Oct. 16.

The Tillamook Association for the Performing Arts is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a revival of Ira Levin’s popular thriller “Deathtrap,” opening this Friday, Oct. 14.

Libraries throughout Lincoln County are bound together for the 2022 Lincoln County Reads selection, “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

This isn’t your usual harvest event. Yes, there will be fall fare like fruits, vegetables and gourds, baked goods, and handmade gifts when the Logsden Community Club Harvest Auction returns after a three-year absence this Saturday, Oct. 15.

An opening reception will help kick off two separate exhibits at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center this Friday, Oct. 14, featuring a carefully curated selection of oil paintings by Michael Gibbons and a rich collection of photographs by Rich Bergeman.

How do you write a series of novels about the same characters in the same world? How do you keep the stories consistent yet fresh? How do you share your own story?

Theater is returning to Newport, and the latest show at the Newport Performing Arts Center surely won’t disappoint.

Oregon’s wild mushroom scene is exceptional and the varieties to be found are tasty — from king boletes to morels to the creme de la creme of mushrooms, the chanterelle.

Pianist David Kaplan, in demand by orchestras in the US and Europe, begins the 29th season of Neskowin Chamber Music with a concert at Camp Winema this Sunday, Oct. 16.

Enjoy two classic chamber works, with the beauty of the Newport Bayfront as the backdrop, at “Mozart Mingle” in the Pacific Maritime and Heritage Center’s Doerfler Theater this Saturday, Oct. 15.

Now a federally recognized holiday, Indigenous Peoples’ Day has replaced Columbus Day in 13 states as well as the District of Columbia. Oregon is one of those states.

The ZuhG Life Surf Shop will be celebrating its seventh year in business this Saturday, Oct. 8. To commemorate this milestone, the shop will be hosting an event to thank its customers and the community, complete with live music from local classic rock band Sitka and a cornhole tournament.

Each spring for the past five years, local artists have volunteered to design and paint banners to be hung on the city-street lamp poles through Yachats during the summer months.

Building a community of local artists and an exhibit space for their work are key parts of Chasse Davidson’s focus as she takes the helm at the Newport Visual Arts Center.

Finally, a day without the marine layer. I had been waiting a week. July 25 (only five months to Christmas) I was hiking part of the Oregon Coast Trail, at Whiskey Run near Bandon.

Kelp forests provide critical habitat for marine life, sequester carbon and are deeply connected to Oregon’s coastal communities, especially those relying on tourism.