Wednesday is Christmas Eve, and places around the Lehigh Valley are celebrating.<\/p>\n
Wednesday night, Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre is holding a special Christmas Eve showing.<\/p>\n
The theater in Orefield is holding a one-night-only presentation of Polar Express at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
Tickets are $20 a car.<\/p>\n
If you prefer to watch your Christmas favorites inside a movie theater, The Emmaus Theater has got you covered.<\/p>\n
They are holding a double feature of some holiday classics. At 2 p.m, you will be able to catch Elf, which is followed by National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.<\/p>\n
Tickets are $10 for each movie.<\/p>\n
And the sign that lights up Christmas City will read a different message Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Every year, Historic Hotel Bethlehem turns off part of its sign<\/a> to have only the word “BETHLEHEM” glow in the night sky.<\/p>\n Those at the hotel say the beloved holiday tradition is an effort to focus on community and togetherness.<\/p>\n Several churches around our area are holding Christmas Eve mass Wednesday night.<\/p>\n To find one near you, go to WFMZ.com<\/a> and click the community calendar.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday is Christmas Eve, and places around the Lehigh Valley are celebrating. Wednesday night, Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,5527,11314,22186,36911],"class_list":{"0":"post-70053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-christmas-city","13":"tag-christmas-eve","14":"tag-national-lampoon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}