by Bruce Klauber | Aug 7, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City
“The Atlantic City Story” is one of those films that got lost in the shuffle. It rarely shows up in lists of movies shot in Atlantic City over the years. The reason for that isn’t complicated: If filmgoers didn’t see it at the Denver Film Festival in 2020, or at the...
by Bruce Klauber | Jul 31, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey
It took comedian Rodney Dangerfield about 40 years to get some respect. As Jack Roy, the first professional name taken by the man born Jacob Cohen, he worked every third-rate nightclub imaginable, and for years sold aluminum siding to finance his dream of making it...
by Michael | Jul 24, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Business, Entertainment, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber Robert Ruffolo, owner and proprietor of Atlantic City’s iconic Princeton Antiques Book Shop since 1966, loves Atlantic City. The store, at 2917 Atlantic Ave., is a singular treasure trove of Atlantic City-focused books, antiques and an unrivaled...
by Bruce Klauber | Jul 17, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, South Jersey
The legendary restaurant you never heard of “One night in his tiny place, the address of which I cannot publish lest it bring him more customers, I asked him how many patrons his place accommodated. ‘Thirty-two,’ shrugged Jimmie. ‘Depends how I feel.’ Jimmie operates...
by Bruce Klauber | Jul 10, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Egg Harbor Township, History, South Jersey
Where families went to get ‘Zaberized’ It was around 1962, about a year after Zaberers restaurant opened on the Black Horse Pike in the McKee City section of Egg Harbor Township. To a 10-year-old, the place looked like a gigantic playhouse, decorated with Tiffany...
