Get ready for the next Riverbend Players Production – “The Invisible Man” – Auditions will be held Saturday, 08/16/25, from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Monday, 08/18/25, from 4:00 pm – 5:30…
Category: Arts
BOOK REVIEW: Debt and Taxes – Defusing America’s Debt Bomb by Howard Mick
OIOpublisher By Jim Heffernan This is a short easy-to-read book about a complex subject that gave me a much better understanding of the absolutely real threat that imperils all of us. It’s…
Moonlight Disco Madness Downtown Tillamook August 1st
Do me a solid and mark your calendar for Friday August 1 from 4-10PM. Tillamook Revitalization Association is hosting the 2025 Moonlight Madness with a Disco theme. Get stoked for a stellar…
OFRENDA A NUESTRO OCEANO SANADOR (AN OFFERING TO OUR HEALING OCEAN): A HUEHCA OMEYOCAN CELEBRATION AUG. 3rd – Celebrate art, culture, and the environment during this wonderful event at Cape Lookout State Park
Join Friends of Netarts Bay, Watershed, Estuary, Beach and Sea (WEBS) and celebrate Huehca Omeyocan’s ninth year at Cape Lookout State Park on August 3rd! Huehca Omeyocan will be sharing art, culture, music,…
Rockaway Beach Music Festival brings two days of music to Oregon Coast Aug. 16 & 17
With the ocean as a backdrop, the Rockaway Beach Music Festival is bringing the cool vibes this summer with a free, two-day long music festival hosted at the Rockaway Beach Wayside August…
DREW’S REVIEWS: SUPERMAN (2025)
By Andrew Jenck August 2014: I’m walking out of Guardians of the Galaxy, processing how I cared more for a group of then-obscure characters than that of the previous summer’s Man of…
What does Freedom mean to me?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Given the state of federal government, I took a prompt that NPR sent out to readers “What does Freedom Mean to You?” and sent it to Pioneer contributors. We’ll share…
BOOK REVIEW: No Straight Road Takes You There – Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit
By Jim Heffernan When I heard Rebecca Solnit had a new book of essays, I had to have it. This book is a collection of 21 essays from the last five years…
BAY CITY ARTS CENTER JULY ARTISTS OF THE MONTH: ROD WHALEY RETROSPECTIVE; NICOLA MEEKS & AMBER MOHR – RECEPTION FRIDAY JULY 11TH
Join Bay City Arts Center for a special July Artists of the Month reception on Friday July 11th from 5 to 7pm, featuring three artists, music and more. Rod Whaley Rod spent…
BOOK REVIEW: The Death of Politics by Peter Wehner
By Jim Heffernan I’m not sure why I did not read this book three years ago when I first bought it. Maybe I was caught up in tribalism and thought a book…