Hard Rock steakhouse offers new nightlife wrinkle
By Chuck Darrow The calendar may say “mid-winter,” but things are definitely heating up on the nightlife landscape at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. This Friday and Saturday will see the introduction of a new concept for the casino’s Council Oak Steaks...‘Motown Forever’ getting ready to boogaloo into Borgata
By Chuck Darrow There’s no question that Atlantic City audiences adore the music that emanated from Detroit in the 1960s and ’70s. From the earliest days of legal casino gambling, legends like Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations and The Four Tops have...Caesars’ show producer is ‘Hook’ed on Atlantic City
By Chuck Darrow As recently noted in this column, the biggest casino-entertainment happening of 2023 was the early-summer debut of “The Hook” at Caesars Atlantic City. The adults-only revue, which blends raunchy humor with top-shelf “Cirque”-style specialty acts is...Remembering when a Canadian embezzler shut down an AC casino
By Chuck Darrow A fascinating—if, at this point, nearly forgotten—story of Atlantic City’s legal-gaming era is that of Brian Molony, who, in the early 1980s, became the only gambler to cause a casino to cease operations. On the surface, Molony, a Toronto, Canada...
