by Chuck Darrow | Jan 8, 2026 | Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey
The Casino File With all due respect to Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and Ocean Casino Resort, both of which are good for multiple blockbuster bookings every year, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City reigns as Our Town’s perennial show business top dog thanks...
by Chuck Darrow | Dec 30, 2025 | Atlantic County, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Editorial, South Jersey
The Casino File As a new year launches, it’s customary to make resolutions. But for the purposes of this particular column, “New Year’s suggestions” feels more appropriate, at least as it pertains to the local gambling industry. To put it both succinctly and harshly,...
by Chuck Darrow | Dec 23, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, South Jersey
The Casino File When La Strada at the Shore opened inside Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City it was an unusually bold move. After all, in a region — and city — where top-shelf Italian restaurants are part of the cultural fabric, it didn’t necessarily make a lot of sense to...
by Chuck Darrow | Dec 23, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey
Remembering When Recently, a friend of mine asked if what is currently called Showboat Hotel Atlantic City would one day re-acquire the gaming license it voluntarily forfeited when it closed in that darkest of casino-era years, 2014. In an instant, I mentally accessed...
by Chuck Darrow | Dec 18, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey, What's Happening
The Casino File In the first half of the 1980s, to describe something as “totally tubular” was especially high praise. As such, it’s an appropriate title for a tour featuring a gaggle of chart-toppers from that long-ago, MTV-propelled era. The ”Totally Tubular” tour,...
