by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 25, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Features, South Jersey, What's Happening
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey, What's Happening
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 11, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Features, History, South Jersey
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Dec 28, 2023 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey
By Chuck Darrow While most of us, it can be assumed, are looking ahead to the new year, we figured one last glance in the rearview mirror is merited. And since this column is primarily dedicated to casino entertainment, it behooves us to look at some of the more...
by Cindy Fertsch | Dec 20, 2023 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Features, South Jersey
By Chuck Darrow In his classic 1977 film, “Annie Hall,” Woody Allen’s character, Alvy Singer, suggests that a relationship is like a shark: It must keep moving forward or it will die. Well, it’s not too much of a stretch to suggest this holds true for casinos as well....
