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From "Christmas Vacation" in Binghamton to "The Nutcracker" in Ithaca, here's 8 great ways to enjoy the holiday season in the Southern Tier.

ITHACA, NY -- The Ithaca Ballet offers an inside view of the choreographer’s creative process in the time of COVID with original pieces by Kristina Hilliard, Amy Walker O’Brien, Amanda Moretti, Kara Skrubis and Maria Valencia Alvarez with one vintage clip by Lawrence Brantley. This year the Ithaca Ballet dancers rehearsed and were filmed at the Hangar Theatre, locations in downtown Ithaca, and Cornell University. Filmed and edited by Marilyn Rivchin, the dance performances are creatively woven together with intimate conversation and fascinating rehearsal footage.

ITHACA, NY -- “The Nutcracker” is one of, if not the single most, performed ballets in the modern era. A holiday classic, the sweet swell of strings of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s music is everywhere this time of year. But with the COVID-19 pandemic putting the damper on a live performances, many ballet schools couldn’t go ahead with their usual winter performance. But the Ithaca Ballet made it work using an innovative combination of local sets, stage performance and green screens. It would have been easy for the school to just throw up a camera on a tripod in the State The...

Ithaca Journal Ithaca attorney Elizabeth Aherne announced her candidacy for the New York State Supreme Court Sixth Judicial District election that will take place next fall. The Sixth Judicial District encompasses all of Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Otsego, Schuyler, Tioga and Tompkins counties. The vacancy in this office will be created by the pending retirement of Tompkins County-based State Supreme Court Justice Robert C. Mulvey. Like Mulvey, Aherne is a Republican.  For the past 12 years, Aherne has owned and operated her own private law practice in Ithaca, N...