Newport Farmers Market has now embarked on a long season full of 65 vendors every Saturday

March 27, 2024

By LESLIE O’DONNELL/Oregon Coast TODAY People carrying bags full of pastries, cut flowers, eggs, one-of-a-kind handmade crafts and early vegetables are a sure sign that spring has arrived — and that the Newport Farmers Market is open for the season. The market is now open every Saturday for a season that runs until early December. Vendors offer something for

Lincoln City center offers a full week of affordable family entertainment for Spring Break

March 21, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY Oregon’s spring break next week will be a whip-cracking, art-making, balloon-twisting, mesmerizing and appetizing good time at the beach, thanks to the 2024 Festival of Illusions at the Lincoln City Cultural Center. The family-friendly, weatherproof festival will offer magic, art, ventriloquism, juggling, circus tricks and more, with daytime and evening events for every budget through

Newport Symphony concludes its 2023-24 season this weekend with commissioned flute performance

March 21, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY It will be a genre-bending evening when the Newport Symphony Orchestra performs its 2023-24 season finale, “Boléro and Symphonic Jazz, a musical journey through time” at the Newport Performing Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday, March 23-24. Covering a span of 300 years, selections will include a concerto by Vivaldi all the way to the

Arts council nears completion of years-long fundraising with offer to put your name in Newport center

March 14, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY As the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts nears completion of its ambitious capital campaign to renovate the Newport Performing Arts Center, the group is inviting the public to help outfit new backstage spaces — and even add their own names to this beloved community building. When the “Entertain the Future!” a campaign to expand

Looking for indoor activities for children? Three museums offer more kid-friendly displays

March 14, 2024

By GRETCHEN AMMERMAN/Oregon Coast TODAY Ironically, there were clear skies and mild temperatures the day I took my niece to explore some of the available options for keeping kids entertained on rainy days in the most central part of the central Oregon coast. In the past year, local museums have been lowering their standards, so to speak, to install

Nine authors will talk about writing and their work during daylong event Saturday at Heritage Center

March 5, 2024

By LESLIE O’DONNELL/Oregon Coast TODAY Where does a writer’s inspiration come from? Historic photographs and a great-grandmother’s memories? Girlfriends talking around the dinner table? What led to a writer’s change in direction from marine biology to science fiction? Diverse writing styles and subjects — and more — will be the topic of the first literary event at Newport’s Pacific

Saturday’s home and garden show focuses on local work of Habitat for Humanity

March 5, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY Even the Easter Bunny needs to do an occasional home repair, which is why you’ll find him at Habitat for Humanity’s second annual Home and Garden Show. The event, which is the organization’s largest fund-raiser of the year, will take place at from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 9 at Chinook Winds Casino

“A Life in Glass” exhibit shows off the 50 years of creations of Waldport artist Chuck Franklin

February 28, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY The large windows in the Newport Visual Arts Center’s Runyan Gallery, working in tandem with longer days and increased sunlight, should make for a spectacular, colorful display during “A Life in Glass.” Chuck Franklin’s feast-for-the-eyes stained-glass exhibit, opening Friday, highlights the skill and scope of technical and design variety that is only earned from a

Classical favorite “The Music Man” continues run this weekend at Newport Performing Arts Center

February 27, 2024

By BARBARA B. COVELL/Oregon Coast TODAY Watch out, River City, trouble is coming. Luckily, you will be safe in Newport where Coastal Act Productions is performing “The Music Man,” which continues its three week run with shows Friday night and two shows Saturday. The performances wrap up next Friday and Saturday, March 8-9. This popular musical tells the story of

Up to 20,000 visitors expected for 47th Newport Seafood & Wine Festival beginning Thursday

February 21, 2024

By Oregon Coast TODAY Every year, thousands of fans eagerly await the return of the Newport Seafood & Wine Festival, which celebrates its 47th year on the central Oregon coast this weekend. The festival attracts foodies and wine aficionados from throughout the Northwest. It brings together Pacific Northwest wineries, locally harvested seafood and artisans of multiple mediums in a