Many years ago, Sinclair Lewis was badgered into conducting a guest lecture to a group of aspiring writers at Wesleyan College. There, he grumpily asked students to raise their hands if they someday hoped to be writers.

Did you know that there are amazing and mysterious underwater “forests” found just offshore along the Oregon Coast?

The Art Smart program of kids’ art classes will return to Lincoln City on Saturday, Jan. 15, open to young artists aged six to 13.

If we met on the street, you definitely wouldn’t think I looked like someone who would feel comfortable practicing the art of burlesque.

You don’t need a partner, you don’t even need to dance — toe tappers are welcome too.

It is truly all about the flower at The Flower Pot. As Depoe Bay’s premier cannabis dispensary, this charming shop has always had a special place in the hearts of its customers.

To flourish, according to the venerable Google dictionary, is to “grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment.”

A quick dip into the Pacific, a dash and dive into a lake or a well-deserved post-race dunk: the coast offers an ocean of opportunity to start the new year with a bracing bit of cold water.

Toledo, a small mill town with a vibrant artistic side, hosts a monthly event where galleries and studios open their doors to the public and artists show their processes.

I was walking on the beach, minding my own business, when suddenly I ran into Santa and Mrs. Claus.

When I found out that I would learn how to make my very own rug on a loom for my next article, I was ecstatic.

Bomb cyclone. That’s what the local paper called the deluge that came Zilla-roaring off the Pacific a few weeks ago.

As the vivid blues and greens of the Oregon Coast summer transition into the monochrome of autumn, a brilliant yellow songbird with a black head clamps its feet onto a suet feeder, gobbles a morsel of “Berry Blast'' and flies away.

There’s still time to catch the stunning works of photographer Tim W. Moore, December’s featured artist at the Artist Studio Association’s Beachstone Gallery in Lincoln City.

I absolutely love baking. I love anything that gets me in the kitchen, but there is something about baking that I find especially satisfying.

Christmas comes just once a year, but the needs of our companion animals for food, shelter and medical care last all year long.

It’s the holidays and there’s magic in the air. And once again, there’s live theater at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

Since Freed Gallery was founded more than 25 years ago, it has captured the hearts of countless admirers.

Portland-based junkbox blues band Hillstomp brings its refreshing and distinctive brand of do-it-yourself hill country blues stomp to Newport’s Primaltones Community Venue this Friday, Dec. 17.

“The Child of Christmas,” is the theme of this year’s holiday concert, presented by the Congregational Church of Lincoln City on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 18 and 19.