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Chuck Darrow is the Daily News reporter for Atlantic City.

 
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Latest post: Valley Forge Casino opening announced - 02/14/2012
Christie: Come on back
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted 09/03/2011
POINT PLEASANT, N.J. - Get the hell back on the beach! A week after telling people - in some not-very-subtle terms - to leave the shore as Hurricane Irene swirled up the coast, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie yesterday encouraged people to head back to the boardwalk with open wallets.
 
Valley Forge Casino opening announced
Mountain casino a winning alternative to shore resorts
Posted 07/22/2011
TALK ABOUT "out of sight, out of mind." Because it's tucked away off Route 611 high in the Pocono Mountains some 110 miles north of Philly, Mount Airy Casino Resort doesn't always enter the discussion when the subject is eastern Pennsylvania gambling halls.
 
Valley Forge Casino opening announced
 
Resorts erects a big top, home to 3 circuses - 07/15/2011
THAT'S NOT a three-ring circus underneath the tent across North Carolina Avenue from Resorts Casino Hotel. It's three - count 'em - three circuses.
 
Tropicana's 'Flashback' a flash in the bland - 07/08/2011
TROPICANA CASINO and Resort can probably find some measure of pride in knowing " '80s Flashback" is the only all-new extended-run production show being staged this summer in an Atlantic City casino. But there really is nothing novel about the revusical that runs through Sept. 3.
 
Joe Piscopo realizes his dream tonight: Club Piscopo - 07/01/2011
DURING THE course of a close friendship and creative partnership of more than 20 years, entertainer Joe Piscopo and I have spent countless hours in conversations that have covered topics from "The Honeymooners" to Trenton and Washington politics to the joys and frustrations of fatherhood. But it's doubtful no subject of the past two decades has claimed our attention more than Joe's desire to have his own nightclub in an Atlantic City casino.
 
Atlantic City casinos' summer shows look a lot like last year's lineup - 06/24/2011
AS SURE as higher hotel-room rates and a busier Boardwalk mark the summer season in Atlantic City, so does the annual warm-weather proliferation of extended-run productions in the casinos.
Beatles-inspired Monkees reunite & hit the road - 06/17/2011
CasiNotes: For the first time in a decade, the Monkees are back on the road. And while they may not be coming to our town, they'll be close enough tomorrow night at the Borgata in Atlantic City.
 
Resorts Atlantic City owner praises Blanche Morro, known as Blanche the Singing Bartender - 06/10/2011
WHEN DENNIS Gomes bought Resorts Atlantic City last year, one of his first phone calls was to a bartender. He didn't need someone to pour him a celebratory glass of champagne. Instead, he just wanted to let Blanche Morro know he wanted to be her boss again.
 
Emeril sets an Italian Table at Sands Bethlehem - 06/03/2011
CasiNotes: Chef Lagasse's third restaurant at the Sands Casino Resort, Emeril's Italian Table, is his first attempt at an Italian eatery. The eatery will emphasize locally grown ingredients
 
Golden Nugget in Atlantic City will get a makeover - 05/27/2011
THE FORMER Shell showroom at Trump Marina will once again be alive with the sound of music. That's the word from Tilman Fertitta, CEO of Landry's Restaurants Inc. which on Tuesday assumed ownership of the Marina, which will now be called Golden Nugget Atlantic City.
 
Resorts' version of '42nd Street' a crowd-pleaser - 05/20/2011
HISTORICALLY, ATLANTIC City presentations of Broadway musicals have been a "Forrest Gump" affair - like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get.
 
This is no Zonk: 'Let's Make a Deal' is in Atlantic City - 05/13/2011
THE RECENT six-week run of "The Price Is Right Live" starring Joey Fatone at Bally's Atlantic City was a virtual sellout. So how does the midtown gaming hall follow such a tough act?
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With 'dealertainers,' Trump Plaza aims to draw youthful set - 05/06/2011
 
Now you can stay at the Sands Casino in Bethlehem - 04/29/2011


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