Chuck Darrow

There is no reporter anywhere who has covered Atlantic City’s casino scene longer than Chuck, who was there when casinos were legalized by voters November, 1976. Since then, he has chronicled the good times and bad for regional publications and websites including the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill, NJ and Philadelphia Daily News as well as Shore Local Newsmagazine, for which he began writing in 2023. During his nearly 50 years writing about local gaming halls, he has covered numerous casino openings (and closings) and a Who’s Who of show business legends who have performed in Atlantic City including Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, Richard Pryor, Jerry Seinfeld and The Rolling Stones. Each week, Chuck keeps readers on top of what’s happening in the casinos so they may get the most out of their visits. When he’s not working the beat he loves, Chuck plays bass in Pure Petty, a popular Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers tribute band.

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Magician Etienne brings his tricks – and a rock & roll attitude – to Hard Rock

by Cindy Fertsch | Aug 8, 2024 | Atlantic City, Entertainment, Features

By Chuck Darrow The use of “magic” in rock music has been so pervasive for so long (we’re talking a half-century-plus) that it’s almost cliché. Indeed, to compile a list of every song whose title includes the word would be daunting, if not downright impossible. But...

Remembering when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young rocked the AC Race Course

by Cindy Fertsch | Aug 8, 2024 | Atlantic County, Features, History, Music

By Chuck Darrow By any metric, the biggest rock-music event in the history of the now-closed Atlantic City Race Course in Hamilton Township was the Atlantic City Pop Festival, which took place Aug. 1-3, 1969. Staged exactly two weeks before the epochal Woodstock Music...

Four for the show: A look at the summer’s resident productions

by Cindy Fertsch | Aug 1, 2024 | Atlantic City, Entertainment, Features

By Chuck Darrow Once upon a time (as in prior to Pennsylvania legalizing casinos) the summer always brought with it seasonal production shows. During the last week of June and first week of July, it wasn’t unusual to see the opening of at least a half-dozen revues...

Ocean City native keeps things cooking at Borgata

by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 25, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Cape May County, Features, Ocean City

By Chuck Darrow To get from Ocean City to Atlantic City you could go through Somers Point, Longport, Margate and Ventnor. But Deb Pellegrino’s route was a little more circuitous than that: Her journey actually took her through the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia,...

It’s sweet times (again) for Modern English

by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Events & Happenings, Features, Music, South Jersey, Wahoo

By Chuck Darrow Some eight years ago, the Hershey’s corporation cleverly built a TV ad campaign around “I Melt with You,” the 1982 hit single by the British band Modern English, which is one of the acts hitting Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Friday night...
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