Halloween, more than almost any other holiday, is about fun. Unlike Christmas, Easter, Mother’s or Father’s days, all of which involve a certain amount of stress and sacrifice. Thanksgiving is fun, but it’s a ton of work. Halloween is a lot of play, nearly unmatched in its unbridled hedonism. It’s like New Year’s, but with corn syrup instead of booze.

It began with the Gaelic festival Samhain, which celebrated the end of harvest, while ushering in the dark half of the year.…

If there is anything Bellingham Music Club members have learned in the many decades since their first meeting took place on Feb. 22, 1916 at the home of New England Conservatory-trained pianist Mrs. C.X. Larrabee, it’s that adaptation is key to their survival.

When Larrabee founded the BMC with fellow violinist and lauded conductor Mme. Mary Davenport-Engberg—who had also founded the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra six years earlier—it was with the belief that making music acts as a…

Before battening down the hatches and securing its impressive fleet of human- and wind-powered watercraft for the season, the Community Boating Center still has a few tricks—and also some treats—up its sleeves.

First up, the Fairhaven-based nonprofit with the goal “to foster small-watercraft education, access, safe recreation, and marine stewardship on Bellingham Bay” will hew to the stewardship part of its mission by hosting a beach cleanup Sat., Oct. 23 as part of World Make a…

Even though I’ve spent the entirety of the pandemic in close proximity to my boyfriend, I’m still apt to scream at the tippy top of my lungs when he sidles up behind me while I’m doing the dishes or engaged in some other mundane household task. And although I mentally prepare myself for the fact that he’s known to appear out of nowhere—sort of like a bearded, grinning ghost—he often manages to catch me in the precise moment when I’ve let my guard down.

Truth be told, though, there’s…