You’re all set for a night out at the opera. Tuxedo? Check. Sparkly dress? Check. High heels? Check. Flip flops? Wait — flip flops?

If your social media feed has featured a higher-than-average number of smiling people holding freshly found glass floats from Lincoln City beaches lately, there’s a good reason.

If you are resolute about being more active this year and joining the rapidly growing trend of cold water immersion, Newport’s Resolution Run and polar Plunge is the perfect way to check both those boxes.

Dr. Alexandra Mason will give a talk based on her newly released book, “A Handbook for Love,” at Newport Public Library this Saturday, Jan. 7.

The Yakona Nature Preserve, located just south of Newport, is a privately owned and beautifully restored area recently captured by local photographers Bill Posner and Rena Olson and commemorated in a new orchestral work by Dr. Sara Graef.

Anyone who has enjoyed the show “Killing Eve” or the movie “Free Guy” has likely come away as a fan of the incredibly talented Jodie Comer.

Each winter since 2017, Manzanita’s Hoffman Center for the Arts has hosted a themed art exhibit.

Celebrate the creative diversity and inventive style of Arlon Gilliland at the Newport Visual Arts Center from Saturday, Jan. 7 through Feb. 25.

Fewer people flock to the coast during the winter months. Instead, we are gifted with increased numbers of wintering waterfowl.

The Cape Perpetua Young Scientist and Wave Makers Webinars are a variety of online educational presentations hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative that will be held monthly through April.

Throughout 2023, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts and the Newport Visual Arts Center are inviting people on an artistic journey to intriguing new creative destinations.

During a recent visit to the Whale Watching Center in Depoe Bay to learn more about the upcoming winter Whale Watch Week, Wednesday, Dec. 28 through Sunday, Jan.1, I overheard this conversation:

If the ice bucket challenge didn’t do it for you, the growing trend of plunging your entire body in frigid water might also not be your cup of iced tea.
But for regular practitioners, it’s a not-to-be missed way to start the new year.

This New Year’s Eve, Lincoln City’s Chinook Winds Casino Resort is rustlin’ up some fun to ring in 2023, with a “Country optional” theme that you can join in with or leave in the pasture.

Every year on New Year's Day, the Oregon State Parks Department encourages people to explore all the beauty the state has to offer with First Day Hikes.

The trail’s beauty belies the grim story of its namesake. The pine needle carpet is soft on a winter’s day and switchbacks offer panoramas of dense Sitka forest, the majestic Cape Perpetua and the jagged contours of the Oregon Coast.

Through workshops, residencies and events, the Sitka Center provides time and space for place-based reflection, inquiry and creation at the intersection of art and ecology.

The New Year’s Eve dance at the Lincoln City Cultural Center will be musical director John Bringetto’s final time at the helm of the Lincoln Pops Orchestra.

It was Christmas Eve, 1893. Henry Ford, with the help of his wife Clara, tested his first gasoline engine.

The new series of classes at the Artists’ Studio Association in Lincoln City runs the gamut from assemblage art to portraits to mosaic.