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Steve Winwood brings that Traffic sound to Hard Rock Friday

by Doug Deutsch | Sep 25, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Events & Happenings, Music, South Jersey, Wahoo

Tune In, Turn On The rock group Traffic was a band I regularly listened to during my formative years. With a cool repertoire of songs that included “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys,” “Heaven Is in Your Mind,” “Medicated Goo,” and many more –...

MBCA Foundation celebrates ‘The Best is Yet to Come’ with 34th anniversary gala honoring Gary Hill

by Michael | Sep 25, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Events & Happenings, Margate, South Jersey, Wahoo

The MBCA Foundation will celebrate its 34th anniversary with its annual Officers Installation and Awards Gala — this year titled “The Best is Yet to Come” — 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Tropicana Atlantic City honoring Gary Hill, MBCA and Schultz-Hill Foundation...

Sebastian Maniscalco at Ocean: Getting older, but staying funny

by Chuck Darrow | Sep 25, 2025 | Events & Happenings, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey, Wahoo

The Casino File The main takeaway from uber-comic Sebastian Maniscalco’s first of eight performances at Ocean Casino Resort? The dude is getting old. That’s not an opinion. It’s straight from the horse’s mouth, as the 52-year-old, Chicago-born funnyman anchored last...

‘Dangerous When Wet’

by Bruce Klauber | Sep 25, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, History, South Jersey

Esther Williams’ big splash in Atlantic City By 1958, the film career of actress/swimmer Esther Williams was winding down. Originally an award-winning competitive swimmer, Williams was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer around 1942. After several less-than-impressive small...

Remembering when Barry Manilow brought ‘Copacabana’ to the Boardwalk

by Chuck Darrow | Sep 25, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey

Remembering When When pop-music titan Barry Manilow decided to bring his 1978 hit single, “Copacabana,” to life as a book musical, he certainly could have staged the show about “music and passion” at what was arguably the most-famous American nightclub of the mid-20th...

Yacht Rock Revue to Bring its Yacht Rock Forever Tour to Hard Rock

by shorelocalnews | Sep 24, 2025 | Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Events & Happenings, Features, South Jersey, Wahoo

Yacht Rock Revue is bringing its Yacht Rock Forever Tour to Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. The show is slated for Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased...