This year’s Newport Loyalty Days and Sea Fair Festival, running from Friday, May 5, through Sunday, May 7, recognizes all military veterans and active duty personnel, with a special honor given to those who served during the Vietnam War.

The grounds of the Lincoln City Cultural Center are under construction with the long-awaited Cultural Plaza project, but rest assured, the center is still open, with a slate of concerts scheduled throughout May.

What's up at Theatre West? Enjoy Lincoln City’s treasured theater from the audience or even from the stage as the troupe prepares for the coming season.

In the cold, dark depths off Cascade Head, a sunflower sea star’s 15,000 hydraulically manipulated tubed feet propel the bicycle wheel-shaped creature at 200 feet per hour across the rocky reef.

Get a second helping of hot music when Hot Club of Beachtown, Lincoln County’s own Gypsy jazz quartet, returns to the Newport Performing Arts Center for an encore performance this Friday, April 28.

Perhaps the next presentation in the Central Coast Chorale spring concert series, “Voices of Spring!” will help finally break winter’s firm grasp on the Oregon Coast.

Well, of course they do! Instinctively, dogs stretch from the tip of the tongue to the tailbone, like a whole-body yawn.

Free trees and free learning, will once again be a part of the Newport Parks and Recreation Department’s Arbor Day event.

A National Theatre Live production of Shakespeare’s timeless comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing” will light up the big screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center this Friday, April 28.

The Willow String Quartet of Portland will present a chamber concert at Atonement Lutheran Church in Newport this Sunday, April 30.

Six-time Grammy Award-winning jazz composer Terence Blanchard’s new opera, “Champion” will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to the Newport Performing Arts Center this Saturday, April 29.

From kelp to clay to collage — registration is open now for a variety of new adult art classes and workshops at the Newport Visual Arts Center.

The Yaquina Art Association Gallery spotlight show will feature the photography of Linda Radcliff and Barbara Irvine, Friday, April 28, through Friday, May 12.

When a holiday falls on a weekend, there tends to be more to do. This Earth Day, Saturday April 22, is no exception.

Lincoln City’s Community Days celebration will return after a three-year hiatus this April, offering three days packed with fun, friendship and fund-raising.

Poor writing will get the boot when the Willamette Writers Coast Chapter hosts Maren Anderson, emerita editor of the Timberline Review, for Editing Bootcamp at Newport Public Library this Saturday, April 22.

Indifferent to the sleet collecting on its tan and brown feathers, a whimbrel probes the mudflat for invertebrates.

Lincoln City Parks and Recreation needs to hear from you in a series of open houses for a new community park, beginning with the launch event at the Lincoln City Community Center on Friday, April 28.

The Oregon Coast Youth Symphony Festival returns for its fifth season with two free concerts this weekend in Newport.

In French, frisson, means “a strong feeling of excitement.” To the chamber music world, it means the Frisson Ensemble.