Five Things You Need to Know Today: Dec. 22

1. Find some vacation holiday cheer with stories, songs and snacks for kids today at Little Bookworms, followed by cookie decorating at the Bravern,  from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Little Bookworms is located by the fireplace on the second level of Building Two.

2. Cool Winter Nights at the Bravern update: no show this week.

3. International Ballet Theatre presents "The Nutcracker" at The Theatre at  11100 Northeast 6th Street, at 7:30 p.m.

4. Just three more shopping days until Christmas, in case you weren't keenly aware already.

5. On this day in 2001, passengers on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami, Fla., prevented British citizen Richard Reid from detonating explosives he had hidden in his sneakers.