All are welcome at the grand opening of The Friend Zone Sensory Gym in the Newport Recreation Center this Friday, Nov. 1. All visitors on opening day can experience the space for up to one hour at no charge.

While pumpkin orange is undeniably the key color for fall, the full artistic palette will be on display this Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2 and 3, at First Weekend in Toledo.

Food cart courts are this decade’s It Girl. And the Pines Dine, in Lincoln City’s Taft District, has every element to meet the dining and entertainment needs of a community.

Just in time for Halloween, experience National Theatre’s live-recorded London production of “Frankenstein” on Wednesday, Oct. 30, on screen at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

The new season of Neskowin Chamber Music begins as a stop on a world tour for the Quartetto di Cremona this Sunday, Oct 27.

Most people are ashamed to have skeletons in their closet. Not Roger Silver.

Fall on the Oregon Coast is here in all its colorful glory. I live for this time of year.

The beautiful, hand-painted banners that have graced light poles throughout Nye Beach will soon be auctioned off, as is tradition, to raise money for kids’ arts programs.

During an early 2013 recording session in Lincoln City, drummer Marv Bauer suggested a reggae fusion project formed around the songwriting of Randy Foote and Barry Klusman that came to be named JaSkaMon.

The Lincoln City Cultural Center is embarking on a voyage through music, traditions and genres from around the world, and you’re invited to come along.

A bowl of soup could change someone’s life. Last year, Tides of Change, a nonprofit serving survivors of domestic sexual violence, stalking and trafficking, helped more than 600 people in Tillamook County.

The Lincoln County Mycological Society presents “Mushrooms of Cascadia: Fantastic Fungi of the PNW,” a slideshow presentation and book-signing by Christian Schwarz at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center this Thursday, Oct. 24.

You’ll be swept away by “The Tempest,” a modern take on William Shakespeare’s final play, presented by New Visions Arts in Newport.

From the tiniest fairy parasols to the largest organism on earth, Oregon is home to a wonderland of fungal finds.

Fish are typically what you’d find inside a dory boat. But, for one weekend they’ll be traded out for bales of hay.  

Although his English is quite good, Ukrainian clarinetist Volodymyr Gitin was a bit befuddled when I told him that the group he is touring with, Kommuna Lux, is being billed as “high-energy Big Band sound from the bygone days of speakeasies and rum runners.”

Whether it’s a pug in a pumpkin, a terrier in a taco or a retriever dressed as Goldilocks, the Halloween Pet Fashion Show will be the place for your mutt to strut their stuff or your cat to rule the catwalk this Saturday, Oct. 19.

The Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County invites local business owners, entrepreneurs, those Interested in starting a business to its second annual Fail Fest in Newport on Thursday, Oct. 24,

Whether you prefer to call it beanbag toss or cornhole, there’s no question it’s a recreational activity that is landing with a growing list of people.

Go on a “High Fiber Diet” as the Columbia Fiber Arts Guild exhibit opens this Friday, Oct. 18, at Lincoln City’s Fiber Arts Studio and Gallery.