Have a grape time
The Newport Seafood & Wine Festival, celebrating its 48th year this weekend, attracts foodies and wine aficionados from throughout the Northwest and beyond.
Yacht’s up?
Tickets are now on sail for Yächtley Crëw, a super group of guys riding the wave of popularity of music of the late ’70s and early ’80s known as “Yacht Rock.”
A 20-year glass reunion
Few things scream Oregon Coast like glass floats, and no place that produces them has the all-a-round popularity of the Lincoln City Glass Center, celebrating its 20th anniversary with a fund-raising party this Saturday, Feb. 22.
Quite the cape-r
For her first full marathon, Cloverdale resident Heidi Holzgrafe chose to run the Three Capes Marathon Relay in 2022, solo.
Wood you like to go?
Be sure to carve some time out for the new exhibit at Lincoln City’s Chessman Gallery, opening this Friday, Feb. 21.
Alien world
A hermit crab forages for scraps in a salt water pool. The sight of a crow’s beak probing the seaweed for invertebrates sends the startled crab tumbling into a bed of broken mussel shells.
Weave been expecting you
Artist Vince Zettler will weave a few tales at the next Coastal Arts Guild Tea & Talk at the Newport Visual Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 27.
Be ready for Be Jeweled
Looking to clear out a few drawers or jewelry boxes and support a good cause at the same time? It’s time for the collection of donations for the 16th annual Be Jeweled jewelry sale, the annual fund-raiser for Food Share of Lincoln County.
A moving performance in Tillamook
Get some life lessons this Friday, Feb. 21, when “Things My Mother Taught Me” opens at Tillamook’s Barn Community Playhouse.
Feel the beat
The Lincoln City Cultural Center and the Lincoln Pops Big Band invite you to spend Valentine’s Day with all your Big Band favorites at this year’s fun and friendly Sweetheart Dance this Friday, Feb. 14.
Shell out and eat well at the Crab Krack
Join another Central Coast crustacean celebration, the Crab Krack fund-raiser at Newport’s Agate Beach Best Western this Sunday, Feb. 16.
Don’t drag your feet this Valentine’s Day
Whether you celebrate Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s day or Palentine’s day, drag your partner or friend to Lincoln City for three fabulous events this Friday, Feb. 14, and Saturday, Feb 15.
Keystone species gets a little kelp
Briefly interrupted by the pandemic, the annual Williams Lecture Series is back with an important presentation at the Lincoln City Cultural Center on Thursday, Feb. 20.
A fresh look at the old country
With its lush green hills, intricate Celtic knots and pints of Guinness, the traditional things that say “Ireland” are a draw for even those with no Irish ancestry.
Images from an artistic life
How did artist Charles Swank, a resident of Olympia, Washington, end up with a Retrospective Art Show in Yachats?
Find your way to a pint
Help celebrate Valentine's Day with the result of a perfect pairing: Finders Keepers IPA, a brew from Beachcrest Brewing Company in honor of Explore Lincoln City’s ever-popular glass float program.
Make a proper scene in Newport
Are flat scenes, saggy middles or muddy endings keeping your manuscript from being all it can be?
Join the upper crust
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie — or fruit and custard if you prefer. At White Clover Grange Pie Day in Nehalem, just about anything goes as far as pie is concerned
History in black and white
Letitia Carson was born enslaved, but died in Oregon a free woman.
Get some extensive training
Trains come in many sizes, as do the people that love them. Model trains, the tiny replicas that can chug around a Christmas tree or travel through a perfectly replicated town, are a hobby many people enjoy until their golden years.
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