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...
by Chuck Darrow | Sep 18, 2025 | What's Happening, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey
It’s just one guy’s opinion, but this fall’s casino entertainment schedule heralds a most interesting season in our town’s showrooms. Right off the bat, there is an unexpected Hollywood vibe to the talent roster, as four — count ‘em, four — separate events feature...
by Chuck Darrow | Sep 11, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey
The Casino File No matter how quickly summer seemed to fly by for you, Becky Schultz probably had you beat. That’s because Schultz, the vice-president of restaurant operations at Ocean Casino Resort, had her pots and pans—along with her hands—full as she had to...
by Chuck Darrow | Sep 4, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey, What's Happening
The Casino File It would pretty much be impossible to calculate the number of “tribute” acts performing around the world today. But what is easy to ascertain is the name of the band that, by any measurement, sits at the pinnacle of the tribute-act universe. That would...
