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