by Chuck Darrow | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey, What's Happening
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...
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...
by Chuck Darrow | Aug 21, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey
The Casino File The folks at the Prudential North2Shore Festival and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City certainly knew what they were doing when they booked Low Cut Connie to kick off its monthly “Garden State Live” concert series, which is dedicated to New...
by Chuck Darrow | Aug 21, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey
Which one of these doesn’t belong with the others?: Police Chief Clancy Wiggum; tavern owner Moe Szyslak; nuclear-plant worker Carl Carlson; Bruce Springsteen. If you said “Bruce Springsteen,” you are incorrect. That’s because it was a trick question: All four have...
by Chuck Darrow | Aug 14, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Margate, South Jersey, What's Happening
For generations of Americans, sleepaway — or overnight — camp has been a seminal experience. From making lifelong friends to participating in activities that might never have otherwise been presented to young people, this summer ritual has been a crucial part of the...