Heart of Cartm, the North County’s home base for artful waste reduction, is recycling last year’s popular Marine Debris Transformation Retreat.

Get the family together for the Tillamook Association for the Performing Arts’ production of “A Nice Family Gathering,” a touching comedy written by Phil Olson opening this Friday, Nov. 3.

Your guide to trick or treating on the Central Oregon Coast

Ghosts, goblins and witches, oh my! ‘Tis the season for spooky adventures of all kinds to celebrate Halloween. But, how did this spellbinding event really start?

It’s a-boat time for Halloween, and Pacific City hosts one of the Central Coast’s most distinctive celebrations of the holiday. Treats, games, live music and more will be found when Trick or Treat the Dory Fleet returns to the Kiawanda Community Center this Saturday, Oct. 28.

For three and a half weeks this summer, photographer Darryl Baird was the artist-in-residence at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area. The photographs he captured during his time in residence are now the subject of a special exhibit at the Newport Performing Arts Center, starting Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Tillamook’s Fairview Grange will again play host to a celebration of Hispanic and Latino art and culture centered around Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).

If you hike the Oregon Coast Trail near Cape Meares you have to time the pinch point, about a third of a mile south of Pacific Avenue, with the tides.

Ever dreamed of getting tied down by acting in a local theater production? Theatre West in Lincoln City is holding open auditions for “Misery” by William Goldman, directed by Amanda Megyesi-McCave, on Sunday and Monday, Oct. 29 and 30.

Remember when mushrooms were just a vaguely colored topping on salads, pizzas and the occasional pasta?

Ambition, power and betrayal will explode on to the stage of the Newport Performing Arts Center this Friday, Oct. 20, as Red Octopus Theatre Company presents “Coriolanus.”

Theatre West’s latest production, “Panache,” written by Don Gordon, explores the unlikely love story between two adults in their 50s whose vastly different lifestyles challenge one another on the path to finding true connection.

A wildly popular audience participation movie since 1975, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will return to Lincoln City’s Bijou Theatre for another interactive performance this Saturday. Oct. 21.

Neskowin Chamber Music begins its 28th season with an appearance by the Alexander String Quartet at Camp Winema this Sunday, Oct. 22.

The amount of data that can be stored on modern phones has become staggering, but many of us are walking around without taking the proper steps to ensure we don’t lose precious photos from one badly timed lean.

Experience the bittersweet story of Sister Helen Prejean’s fight for the soul of a condemned murderer when the Metropolitan Opera presents “Dead Man Walking” at the Newport Performing Arts Center this Saturday, Oct. 21.

It was 1937 and America was reeling from the effects of the Great Depression, as well as the prospect of engaging in another world war.

Veteran coastal art photographers Walter Duvall and Andree Devine will share a two-week Spotlight Show at Newport’s Yaquina Art Association Gallery, starting this Saturday, Oct. 14.

Art from every angle will be on display at the Newport Visual Arts Center this Friday, Oct. 13, when it hosts “Varied Perspectives,” the new exhibit from the Yachats Arts Guild.

Anton Chekhov’s classic play “The Seagull” will fill the big screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Oct. 18, as National Theatre Live returns to the coast.