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Chuck Darrow is the Daily News reporter for Atlantic City.
South Philly native Steve Martorano joins the food and wine festival this weekend.
WHAT'S so funny about Cape May? For starters, there's the summer series of the all-star comedy company Catch a Rising Star at the Cape May Convention Hall that kicks off Tuesday with a performance by Robert Klein.
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Big Daddy recalls his own dad in book and on stage
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When WIP-FM (94.1) personality Big Daddy Graham recalls his late dad, the memories don't come flooding back. Trickling back is more like it; Graham has exactly 67 memories of his father, Al Gudonis, who died of cancer at age 62 in 1974.
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Wood can do A.C. solo gig
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Ronnie Wood, who was just inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the band Faces, called up the Daily News to gab about his Saturday-night set at Golden Nugget Atlantic City.
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A 'lucky man' takes your questions
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Have a question you’re dying to ask singer-songwriter/progressive-rock titan Greg Lake? This Thursday, Lake brings his one-man show, “Songs of a Lifetime,” to Glenside’s Keswick Theatre.
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About the new Revel casino-hotel
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Some facts and figures.
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Is he Atlantic City's savior?
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Revel's CEO Kevin DeSanctis might be a man of vision, and he is planning a fresh approach to gambling and entertainment in New Jersey.
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He recalls 'West Side' role
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As the first actor to ever portray Riff, the "commander" of the American street gang, the Jets, Michael Callan was one of the recipients of an unforgettable roar of approval the night "West Side Story" premiered.
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Version of 'West Side Story' based on 2009 revival
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THE "WEST Side Story" that checks into the Academy of Music on Tuesday is unlike any production of the iconic musical ever seen in this area. It's based on the 2009 revival directed by Arthur Laurents, who wrote the show's book, and the differences will be noted almost immediately by those who have seen previous versions of the set-in-1950s-New York adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet." Instead of the opening ballet-inflected dance to "Prologue," the members of the working-class street gang the Jets simply walk onstage and glare at the audience. "I felt the gangs in the original production were sweet little things," Laurents said in an interview distributed by the company producing the show's current tour. "And the truth is, they're all killers - every one of them. I wanted to do a much tougher 'West Side Story.'?" Laurents died last May at 93.
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No time for downtime
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We might picture rock stars engaging in debauchery on off-days. But if you're drummer Max Weinberg, you're spending your Tuesday night in Philly in a most un-debauched manner.
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