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Bellingham duo completes soundtrack album for Mount Baker movie

For the last six months Bellingham acoustic music duo Matt Novak and Allegra Ziffle, aka Pretty Little Feet, have been hard at work creating and recording music for "The Mountain Runners," the locally produced film about the 1911-1913 Mount Baker Marathon.

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Release of Sonja Lee's first CD a long time coming

Fans began asking Bellingham vocalist Sonja Lee for a recording not long after her band began performing in 2009. But that winter an auto accident injured both Sonja and her bassist, Robert "Goldtooth" Ray. Goldtooth eventually had to have shoulder surgery. Once he recovered, recording began fall...

9 days ago
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Roger Briggs closing out tenure as artistic director of Whatcom Symphony Orchestra

Roger Briggs, artistic director of Whatcom Symphony Orchestra since 1995, steps off the podium for the last time Sunday, May 13, at Mount Baker Theatre.

18 days ago
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Winners announced in Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest

Betty Scott and Jeffrey Morgan, judges in this year's Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest, have made their selections of 10 "Walk Awards" and 15 "Merit Awards." The poets will read their winning entries at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 10, at Bellingham Cruise Terminal.

25 days ago
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WCC offers guided tour of Pilchuck Glass School

Searching for the perfect Mother's Day gift? Whatcom Community College's Community Education might have the answer.

30 days ago
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$250,000 donation funds new art galleries at WWU

Western Washington University's College of Fine and Performing Arts recently received a $250,000 gift from Seattle art patron Virginia Wright to create two new gallery spaces in Western's Performing Arts Center and to renovate a gallery that houses a collection of tapestries by Alexander Calder.

38 days ago
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Sudden Valley library group launches benefit jazz series

The Friends of Sudden Valley Library is following up a successful jazz concert in the Dance Barn last October with a "World of Jazz Builds a Library" concert series to take place throughout 2012.

45 days ago
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'Q: Which famous person came to Bellingham for her godson's baptism?' Whatcom Literacy Council hosts trivia bee

Is your brain swimming with so much inconsequential information that you feel compelled to make use of it all? You just might be a candidate to join others of like-mind on a three-member team for the 16th Annual Trivia Bee & Silent Auction to support Whatcom Literacy Council.

56 days ago
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Norwegian youth orchestra to tour western Washington

Joanne Donnellan, former orchestra director at Ferndale High School for nearly 30 years, and the concertmaster for Whatcom Symphony Orchestra for decades, is helping to promote two local concerts by the Ung Symfoni from Bergen, Norway, who are now touring Western Washington through April 8.

59 days ago
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Jansen Art Center in Lynden to host first open house March 30-April 1

Laurie Riskin, who was appointed executive director of Lynden's Jansen Art Center in December, is thrilled to welcome the community to the center's first open house on March 30, 31, and April 1.

66 days ago
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St. Patrick's Day specials in the works at Uisce pub

Molly McGarry, who owns Uisce Irish Pub, 1319 Commercial St., with her husband, Dave Rooney, is super-animated when she talks about this Saturday's annual day of Irish celebration. She says she has "some big stuff lined up" for St. Patrick's Day.

73 days ago