Jingle Bells on Bishop

This year’s theme – “A Vintage Christmas” – will be played out in carnival-style activity booths throughout the district. For children, merchants will offer face-painting, go fish, a bounce house, pin-the-hat-on-Santa, bean-bag throw for burgers, ornament-making, and fortune-telling by a certified wizard. For the dunking booth, invitations have been issued to all major presidential candidates. More than a dozen acts will perform over the weekend. Among the entertainers are the Happy Bullets, a wannabe-Salvation Army brass band; La Parranda, a troop of percussive Venezuelans; jazz duo Sarah and Robert Aberg; and the Alegre Ballet Folklorico. Children’s choirs, carolers, and the real Santa fill out the schedule.