by Chuck Darrow | Oct 16, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, South Jersey, What's Happening
The Casino File If you’re going to see the Randy Bachman-fronted, reconstituted BTO (aka Bachman-Turner Overdrive) at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa Halloween night, you definitely won’t be hearing Sly & The Family Stone’s 1971 hit, “Family Affair,” even though it...
by Chuck Darrow | Oct 9, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Food & Beverage, South Jersey
The Casino File From ownership to expansion to operational policies, Tropicana Atlantic City has undergone countless changes in its 44-year existence. But there has been one constant through the decades: il Verdi, the high-end Italian dining room that is older than...
by Chuck Darrow | Oct 2, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey
The Casino File Since there’s little, if anything, funny about math, it doesn’t really matter that the numbers don’t add up for the upcoming Comedy Stop celebration at Golden Nugget Atlantic City. The groundbreaking laugh lounge opened its doors in November, 1983...
by Chuck Darrow | Sep 25, 2025 | What's Happening, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey
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...
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...
