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Newport Symphony opens its 2025-26 season this weekend with tribute to Beethoven

September 24, 2025

There might be no name more recognized in the classical music genre than Ludwig van Beethoven. The Newport Symphony Orchestra will start its new season with a powerful program in tribute to the great composer at the Newport Performing Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 27-28.

Lincoln City’s fall kite festival flies for 45th year this weekend with special night performance Friday

September 18, 2025

Organizers had a bright idea to enhance the Lincoln City Fall Kite Festival, returning to the beach for its 45th year Friday through Sunday. This year, the festival debuts a new program -- the Night Fly.

4th annual Newport Pride celebration offers a wide range of events Friday through Sunday

September 17, 2025

For the fourth year in a row, the Newport Oregon Pride celebration will take place at various locations throughout the city Friday through Sunday, Sept. 19-21.

Sunday market in Lincoln City taking advantage of new cultural plaza and plenty of local talent

September 4, 2025

Visiting the Lincoln City Sunday Market is so much more than just a shopping experience. A small town packed with local talent puts on its Sunday best at the Lincoln City Cultural Center's newly renovated plaza.

Newport Visual Arts Center hosting creative workshops for experienced and aspiring artists this fall

September 4, 2025

Each fall, the Newport Visual Arts Center helps create the next wave of displaying artists with a diverse range of creative workshops for all skill levels.

“Dirty Cello” concert Sunday at Pacific Heritage Center is a fundraiser for nonprofit KYAQ radio

August 27, 2025

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

New director of Siletz Bay Music Festival adjusts to challenge of shuffling performers on eve of event

August 7, 2025

t can’t always be smooth sailing. For Mei-Ting Sun, artistic director of the Siletz Bay Music Festival, one of the monster challenges of gathering 58 top musicians from around the world and assembling them in a small Oregon town for an 11-concert, 10-day series recently came roaring to life — just weeks before the festival’s Thursday, Aug. 14 start date.

Cascade Head Biosphere stages sand art competition Saturday to help bring attention to its work

July 23, 2025

By Oregon Coast TODAY Feeling rakish? Test your temporary art skills and vie for great prizes when the Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative presents the Sand Art Competition at Roads End State Recreation Site on Saturday, July 26. Teams from one to four people will each get a 20- by 20-foot square in which to rake. The event runs from

Surf’s up Saturday in Newport for 4th annual Oregon Paddle Out to honor 87 surfers

July 16, 2025

By Oregon Coast TODAY The fourth annual Oregon Paddle Out, honoring Oregon surfers who have died, will be held at the Agate Beach cove in Newport on Saturday, July 19. This year’s event, which also includes events at Ossies Surf Shop, will also celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Agate Beach Surf Club. Formed by local teens in 1964,

Rotary Club and bevy of organizations and students tackle beach microplastics one sieve at a time

July 9, 2025

By ELIOT SEKULER/Oregon Coast TODAY NEWPORT — Sailing on the wind and the sea, the tiny particles find their way into everything. Like a sci-fi movie plague, the worldwide buildup of microplastics – plastic scraps measuring less than 3/16 of an inch – is menacing the planet, permeating food, water and, as it breaks down further, the air we

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Newport Symphony opens its 2025-26 season this weekend with tribute to Beethoven

Lincoln City’s fall kite festival flies for 45th year this weekend with special night performance Friday

4th annual Newport Pride celebration offers a wide range of events Friday through Sunday

Sunday market in Lincoln City taking advantage of new cultural plaza and plenty of local talent

Newport Visual Arts Center hosting creative workshops for experienced and aspiring artists this fall

“Dirty Cello” concert Sunday at Pacific Heritage Center is a fundraiser for nonprofit KYAQ radio

New director of Siletz Bay Music Festival adjusts to challenge of shuffling performers on eve of event

Cascade Head Biosphere stages sand art competition Saturday to help bring attention to its work

Surf’s up Saturday in Newport for 4th annual Oregon Paddle Out to honor 87 surfers

Rotary Club and bevy of organizations and students tackle beach microplastics one sieve at a time

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