Get down and dirty and support KYAQ radio when San Francisco-based Dirty Cello rocks Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center this Sunday, Aug. 31

It’s back to school time, and Newport Public Library is ready to help students fill their backpacks with printed resources, and adults continue in the school of life at the next installation of the Learn the Library series.

An especially well-assembled group of artists, Mandee Schroer, Chris Steinken and Bill Atwood, will show their work as part of the September Exhibition at Manzanita’s Hoffman Gallery, opening on Thursday, Sept. 4.

Square your plans in the next few weeks to include a visit to the “10 x 10: Something for Everyone” exhibit at Newport Visual Arts Center.

Mei-Ting Sun, artistic director of Siletz Bay Music Festival, speaks rhapsodically about the festival’s new conductor.

As an organic gardener, I have a deep and abiding dislike of slugs. Then earlier this year, I met some slugs of a different type, and I couldn’t find them more charming.

There are plenty of car shows on the Central Oregon Coast. But Lincoln City’s Surf City Classic Car Show and Sound Off is a car show…in stereo.

The Siletz Bay Music Festival will present Prokofiev’s much-beloved “Peter and the Wolf” at a free family concert in Lincoln City’s Regatta Park this Saturday, Aug. 23.

People will be green with envy if you grab your tickets early for the Celtic Music Series at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, with tickets on sale now.

Art comes in every form at the Artisan Faire at Salishan Marketplace and each artist is a master of their craft.

This month, the Lincoln City Cultural Center will transform into a portal of rhythm, resistance and revelation as Making Movies, one of the most vital and genre-defying bands on the scene today, takes the stage on Wednesday, Aug. 28.

Make your way to the Lincoln City Cultural Center for an evening of transcendent global music this Sunday, Aug. 24.

Prime your vocal pipes and prepare to possibly join the Coastal Voices, the largest mixed chorus on the Central Oregon Coast

Round up the family for the Bay City Pearl & Oyster Festival at Al Griffin Memorial Park this weekend.

A ground-breaking master of musical fusion, Jim Pepper drew upon his Indigenous Kaw and Creek ancestry and his love of jazz to create an exhilarating body of work that has slowly begun to be fully appreciated.

You don’t need to own, or even care that much about, wooden boats to have a great time at the 20th Annual Wooden Boat Show, taking place at Toledo’s Waterfront Park this weekend.

The Jay Flewelling Comedy Showcase returns to Newport with a rotating lineup of some of Portland’s most talented comedians this Saturday, Aug. 16.

It’s always cooler at the beach and the Rockaway Beach Music Festival is keeping the cool vibes going this summer with a free, two-day long music festival hosted at the Rockaway Beach Wayside this weekend.

The Oregon Coast’s vibrant creative spirit takes center stage once again as the 31st annual Nestucca Valley Artisans Festival returns to the Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City this weekend.

Both award-winning musicians in their own rights, Terry Robb and Adam Scramstad are teaming up for a special performance at the Yachats Commons this Saturday, Aug. 16.