The edible mushroom-hunting season on the Oregon Coast is all too brief, but thanks to a new program from the Yachats Chamber of Commerce, you can experience the thrill of finding mushrooms for much longer. And these mushrooms never go bad.

The year was 1995, and the juggernaut that is the tribute band was still in its infancy. A concert promoter got the idea to use little people to form a KISS tribute band and name it MINI KISS.

A celebration of all things fiber will take place at the Yaquina Fiber Arts Guild’s annual Spin In this Saturday, Feb. 1, at Newport Middle School.

Giuseppe Verdi wrote the opera “Aida” as a commission from the then ruler of Egypt to celebrate the opening of the Khedivial Opera House. But thanks to the Siege of Paris in 1870, the opera missed opening night because the scenery and costumes were stuck in the French capital.

Music teachers from across Lincoln County will be earning extra credit when they step on stage for the latest Spotlight on the Teachers concert this Sunday, Feb. 2.

Since its inception as a chapter of the National Audubon Society in November of 2005, the newly renamed Seven Capes Bird Alliance is as active as ever, with regular bird walks, educational talks and fun networking events.

At Driftwood Public Library in Lincoln City, February might as well rhyme with legacy. Well, it doesn’t, but February does hail the arrival of the annual Oregon Legacy literary series, taking place on Sunday afternoons throughout the month.

With spring right around the corner, the town of Toledo is preparing for the new season with First Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1 and 2.

If you use the word “nerd” as a compliment, have a favorite anime character and roll your eyes at people who mix up Star Wars and Star Trek, the brand-new event coming to the Newport Recreation Center this weekend is for you.

Newport’s new Winter Lecture Series offers guests the chance to learn lots about the outside world while chilling in the cozy Newport Recreation Center.

Wildfires, tsunami warnings, ice storms. Natural disasters fill the news with alarming frequency, but the Central Oregon Coast seems mercifully distant much of the time. So far.

Bob’s Beach Books in Lincoln City is a treasure trove of reading material. You don’t even have to enter the store to see how much it has to offer as the front display windows are packed with new releases and interesting titles, colorful posters and art. It’s hard to resist stepping inside.

The Big Blue Film Fest, showcasing ocean-themed films that connect science and the arts, returns to Newport this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24 and 25, with screenings at the Hatfield Marine Science Center and the Newport Performing Arts Center.

Manzanita is an ideal location for the subject of the next Hoffman Center for the Arts Writing Program, “Nature-Inspired Writing Series: Writing and the Ecological Self.”

Every January, Manzanita’s Hoffman Center for the Arts encourages poets with connections to the North Oregon Coast community to submit their work to compete for the Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize.

When Nicole Cousino and Richard Haskell purchased a property visible from Highway 20 between Newport and Toledo that features a stunning dairy barn and plenty of open space, they had visions of creating a place that they and others could use as a positive resource.

The Lincoln City Pride Festival might not be until June, but luckily you don’t have to wait until then to party with the Lincoln City Pride Committee. Have fun while raising funds at a colorful night of live music, dazzling drag performances, dancing and a silent auction at the Lincoln City Cultural Center this Saturday, Jan. 18.

The Newport Symphony Orchestra continues its current season with “The Land, the Sea and the Birds,” a pair of cool, curated concerts at the Newport Performing Arts Center this weekend.

This weekend will see woodcarvings of all kinds on display as the Coastal Carvers present their 31st annual Artistry in Wood show at Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City.

How do writers achieve a good balance of sensory details in a scene? How do we hone our attention to the world so that we can make the settings in our scenes vivid?