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The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine surfs into Borgata

by Chuck Darrow | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Events & Happenings, South Jersey, Wahoo

The Casino File Anytime a member of The Beach Boys takes the stage, you can be sure a jukebox-worth of hits from the legendary band’s prodigious songbook will fill the air. But charter member Al Jardine is digging deeper while on his current tour that brings him to...

Cheers to Cabernet Sauvignon!

by David Setley | Aug 28, 2025 | Atlantic County, Cape May County, Editorial, Food & Beverage, South Jersey

Drink Up! Aug. 30, 2025, is International Cabernet Sauvignon Day. Wine historians have determined that French winemakers in Bordeaux experimented in grapevine grafting with numerous varietals in the 1600s, resulting in what is now known as Cabernet Sauvignon. Over the...

Atlantic City Headliners

by shorelocalnews | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Calendars, Entertainment, South Jersey, Wahoo

Thursday, August 28 Magical Mystery Doors 8 p.m. Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Friday, August 29 Jimmy O. Yang 9 p.m. Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Saturday, August 30 Live & Collective Soul 6:30 p.m. Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias 5 p.m....

Live & Local Music Calendar

by shorelocalnews | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Calendars, Cape May County, Entertainment, Events & Happenings, South Jersey, Wahoo

Thursday, August 28 Atlantic City LandShark Bar & Grill Smokey Starr 4 – 8 p.m. 1133 Boardwalk Steel Pier Tiki Bar Troy Rusnack 7 – 11 p.m. 1000 Boardwalk The Deck at Golden Nugget B Street Band 7 – 11 p.m. 600 Huron Ave. The Lobby Bar at Hard Rock Austin City...

Devon Allman keeping the blues alive at the Jersey Shore

by Doug Deutsch | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey, Wahoo

Tune In, Turn On It’s a lot to label someone the future of the blues, yet what we witnessed last week, when Devon Allman’s Blues Summit came to Atlantic City, clearly felt like the most successful way to keep the genre alive. While beloved by its core audience, the...

Remembering when Miss America became a modern woman

by Chuck Darrow | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey

Remembering When It wasn’t the best of times for the Miss America Pageant. By the time the 1970s dawned, American society was significantly different than it had been just a decade earlier. Among the most visible and wide-ranging changes were those in the status and...