INHOUSE Jazz will continue the 2025 season with an Oregon Coast concert hosted by vocalist Annie Averre, presenting The Randy Porter Trio this Sunday, June 22.

The Newport Recreation Center is calling all cat lovers to Kittypalooza, a cat-themed exposition taking place on Wednesday, June 26.

There will definitely be strings attached when Lincoln City’s celebrated Summer Kite Festival returns this Saturday and Sunday, June 21 through 22.

Join the Willamette Writers Coast Chapter and author Judith Barrington at Newport Public Library for a reading this Friday, June 20, and a memoir workshop this Saturday, June 21.

Presenting 11 concerts at five venues in Lincoln City and Newport, this summer’s Siletz Bay Music Festival will offer an adventurous program of chamber, jazz and orchestral music performed by 52 artists who travel to the Oregon Coast from locations around the world.

Family fun, local pride and heartfelt tributes will reign when Waldport puts on the 69th Annual Beachcomber Days, themed “United By The Sea,” this Saturday, June 14.

Common murres push their flightless chicks off of rocky outcrops into the ocean before they can fly, and then the father, not the mother, sticks around to catch fish for the baby until it has fledged.

A good laugh is like a tiny present, and you’ll find plenty at the National Theatre production of Noël Coward’s “Present Laughter,” on screen in ultra-HD at Newport Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, June 18.

Check out a broad mixture of ceramic forms and firing techniques then explore some tidepool paintings at two new exhibits opening the at Newport Visual Arts Center this Friday, June 13.

Hello summer my old friend and hello strawberry season. These ruby beauties are making an appearance in grocery stores and farmers markets everywhere.

Registration is now open for a series of summer arts learning opportunities at the Newport Visual Arts Center, beginning with “Cloud Painting in Oils,” led by Khara Ledonne, on Wednesday, June 18.

It’s no secret that writers and visual artists are mostly solitary creatures when they work, but when they work together, it can create magic, as was the case with the collaboration between Taylor Yount and Veta Bakhtina.

Eagles circled overhead while I spoke to JoAnn Barton and Rena Olson about the latest project at Newport’s Yakona Nature Preserve and Education Center.

In between Lincoln city and Depoe Bay, next to Chester’s Thriftway, sits a coffee shop called Big Mountain Coffee Roasters that has been in operation for 20 years.

The well-named Lincoln Pops Big Band will bring its impressive number of musicians and instruments to the Newport Performing Arts Center for two sets of big band and jazz tunes this Sunday, June 8.

Tensas & The Mourners are a powerhouse duo armed with a rotating arsenal of guitar, drums, trumpet, piano, bass and whatever else they can plug in or beat on.

As summer beckons, so too do the studios and galleries of Toledo, where artists will throw open their doors to celebrate First Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8.

The Oregon Coast Aquarium is hosting its World Ocean Day celebration with marine-themed activities, art performances and displays highlighting community partners from across Lincoln County this Sunday, June 8.

You can find a float on the beach, and you can even blow your own, but Lincoln City’s North Lincoln County Historical Museum is providing one last chance to snag one of the curated floats from the James Watson Glass Fishing Float collection at a fund-raising sale this Friday and Saturday, June 6 and 7.

The tiny machines with endless entertainment possibilities that fit into our pockets are fine. But for those from the era when we gathered around an arcade cabinet to cheer, jeer and mentally plan the moves for our next turn, some of the old magic of arcade game play has been lost.