Dust off your boots and mark your calendars, the highly anticipated Bulls & Broncs event is back at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds on Saturday, March 7, bringing high-energy action to the Oregon…
Category: Arts
BOOK REVIEWS: Congratulations, by the way By George Saunders
By Jim Heffernan Here’s how The New York Times introduces this very short beautiful book: “Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech…
BOOK REVIEW: Fighting Oligarchy by Bernie Sanders
By Jim Heffernan This book was published September 30, 2025 and I read it yesterday.(Feb. 8, 2026) It’s a slim 144 pages, tightly written and a partisan pleasure to read. The book…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Bad Bunny vs. the Evil Empire
By Butch Freedman That trump fellow, you know, the one whose brain is made of Diet Coke and McDonald’s french fries. Yeah, that one, the clown conspirator, the one with all the…
Music, Dance & Art Healing with Huehca Omeyocan at Bay City Arts Center Feb. 7, 2026; Art Display Continues Through February
By Romy Carver; Photos & Video by Don Backman On Saturday evening February 7, 2026, Bay City Arts Center hosted a special treat, an Ancestral Music and Dance Celebration featuring Huehca Omeyocan,…
MONDAY MUSICAL CLUB “LOVE AT THE MOVIES” FEB. 9
Come join us on Monday, February 9 for “Love at the Movies” at First Christian Church, 2203 4th Street, Tillamook. An evening of music featuring love songs and favorite movie clips. For…
NORTH OREGON COAST SYMPHONY MUSICAL STORYTIME AT NORTH TILLAMOOK LIBRARY IN MANZANITA FEB. 9
SCREECH, SHRIEK, SCRAPE. Noisy Nora wants to learn how to play the violin but her family isn’t so sure that they can endure the terrible sounds when she practices. North Oregon Coast…
BOOK REVIEW: Caste – The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
I started this review for “Black History Month”, but soon realized the book was more than a book about blacks. Caste refers to the process where a society identifies a portion of…
TILLAMOOK ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (TAPA) ANNOUNCES CAST FOR “BARBECUING HAMLET”, OPENING MARCH 13
TAPA announces the cast of “Barbecuing Hamlet”, a wildly funny, gloriously chaotic reimagining of Shakespeare’s most tortured tragedy, served hot off the grill. Opening March 13 at the Barn Community Playhouse in…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: Melania – The Bomb
” … two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.” By Marc C. Johnson John Kennedy famously told a news conference in Paris on June 2, 1961: Mr. Secretary of State, Ambassador Alphand,…