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Bellingham's holiday celebrations don't commence in earnest until next weekend, but there's still plenty happening around town this Saturday and Sunday. For starters: Tickets are still on sale for folk duo Over the Rhine's show at Mount Baker Theatre tomorrow evening. Chuckanut Bay Distillery's annual Krampus Night — aka "Bellingham's favorite dark holiday tradition" — also hasn't sold out yet (but if I were you, I'd grab your spot ASAP).

In need of a laugh? The Upfront is hosting their annual Bellingham Improv Festival this weekend, and Bellingham TheatreWork's dark comedy, "Bigfoot," is running at Options Theatre.

More than a year ago, I covered then-high school student Atlas Hovdesven's original ballet, "A Very Queer Ballet (not a love story)." Now Hovdesven is back with its sequel, "A Very Queer Ballet: TRANScendence," with showings tonight and Saturday afternoon at the FireHouse Arts and Events Center.

Finally, Whatcom Chorale's performance of "Lest We Forget," runs for this weekend only and "[gives] voice to the unbroken spirit of over 120,000 Japanese Americans who were unjustly rounded up and incarcerated." Click here for more information about the program and guest speaker Attorney Lorraine Bannai, a member of the legal team that overturned convictions for three men who resisted internment orders.

Today's news

Chief Corrections Deputy Caleb Erickson, at right, answers questions during the Justice Project Community Engagement Workshop held at the Pioneer Park Pavillion on Nov. 20 in Ferndale. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)

Officials field questions, criticism at Justice Project open house

Skagit County to open seasonal homeless shelters Nov. 24

Olympic Pipeline spill outside of Everett is one of several in recent years

Man sentenced for role in drug trafficking ring that caused 2023 overdose deaths in Lummi Nation

20th Century Bowl reopening doors after repairs

Inside downtown Bellingham's newest — and most nostalgic — community bar

How to harvest — and share — homegrown abundance

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Faces in the Crowd

Brecken Stockmar sits in Baker Creek Ceramic Studio Nov. 17 in Bellingham. The 24-year-old potter owns the studio where he teaches and creates his own art. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)

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