Remembering Atlantic City’s Million Dollar Pier
By Roseann Smith In 1906, Captain John Lake Young, along with builder Kennedy Crossan, touted spending $1 million to build Million Dollar Pier. The pier was a massive entertainment complex. Originally billed as “Young’s Million Dollar Pier,” the pier boasted a...
Comic Joe List brings the funny
The Casino File What’s so funny about January in Atlantic City? Well, if you’re at Harrah’s on the 31st, the answer to that question will be easy: Joe List. The 43-year-old suburban Boston native is a standup-comedy vet of some two decades whose act offers...
Songstress Angela Burton performs at North2Shore’s AC Jamming! Showcase Saturday
Tune In, Turn On After moving back to Atlantic City over three years ago, and taking a position with Shore Local as a music columnist, one of the first things I did was try to get familiar with all of the musicians in our area, of which there are many. One name I...
The two Franks who once defined Atlantic City casino entertainment
Although entertainers Frank D’Rone and Frankie Randall were different stylistically, they also had a lot in common. Both were singers and instrumentalists with a jazz orientation. Both were protégés – Randall of Frank Sinatra, and D’Rone of Nat “King”...








