Bellingham can offer you this in terms of:
Hiking: Many miles of urban and semi-urban trails within minutes of town. Drive east towards the mountains and this becomes literally endless trails in the Cascades.
Biking: Either road or mt biking is epic. For skinny tires, Chuckanut Drive, the roads in the county and the many bike paths in town allow for whatever you like. As long as you don't mind hills. We have hills. Lots. They are unavoidable. The mountain biking is world class with Galbraith Mt five minutes from downtown. Then there are trails along Chuckanut. And the east side of Lake Whatcom. And the North Shore trails in Vancouver an hour north. Whistler is 3 hours north.
Plays and Concerts: There is a pretty stable music/arts scene that tends towards the acoustic/jazz/folk side of things. Some of the college bars will have harder music if you want. The Mt Baker Theater books nationally touring bands/plays/entertainment. Plenty of other things available too. Just look through
this to see what is happening this month.
Food: This is what I find to bee most disappointing in B'ham. There is good food to be found in restaurants but the top-notch ones are limited in number. Plenty of perfectly acceptable middle-of-the-road places but then again, Seattle and Vancouver are and hour away and you can get your foodie fix there. What B'ham does have is a serious support of locally sourced food and organic products. And while you did not mention it, there are 9 microbreweries in town and at least two distilleries and a couple of wineries. Tying this together, our band is playing at the biggest brewery in town this Friday. Rock/Blues music outside with award winning beer appeals to a lot of people here it seems.