DOWN THE SHORE
Grace Platt, 10 from Germantown skips through the surf in Ocean City. (Ron Tarver / Staff Photographer)
Essay
A Shore resident looks back on this longest of summers, with gratitude, not contempt, for faithful visitors.
ON THE CALENDAR
2nd Annual Savor Borgata
Saturday, November 7
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Borgata Hotel & Casino • 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, NJ
Annual Holiday Bazaar
Saturday, November 7
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Grace Episcopal Church • 313 Main St., Langhorne, PA
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Atlantic City
IT HAS to be a foodie's ultimate fantasy: Getting up-close-and-personal with a slew of superstar chefs while sampling some of their dishes.
Along the shore
There's an old saying that when the going gets tough, everybody comes back to the Jersey Shore.
It's nearby, it can be done on the cheap, and everybody knows what to expect when they get here. With the economy still in the doldrums, regional vacationers may be more apt to put off venturing far and wide again this summer and rely on that old standby: the beaches and boardwalks of the Shore's string of unique coastal towns.
- Fine flip-flop fare
WHERE TO EAT
Craig LaBan: With only some exceptions, last year's talents have simply re-anchored their stoves to new locales along the coast. Here's a look at five new fine-dining contenders this season, from Cape May to Ventnor, where familiar faces (and some familiar places) are making waves again.
- Missing something? Try these fine substitutes
- Shore readies for entertaining summer
MUSIC AND MEMORIES
As a child, singing sensation Taylor Swift spent summers at her parents' house on the bay in Stone Harbor. Swift recalls her Jersey Shore days.
- Poll: Have you ever tried surfing? (102 votes)
RELAXING
Sometimes, it's not just the economy that needs a stimulus. Sometimes, it's your spirits. Stacey Marchel, 40, was living the basic Margate mom life on Quincy Avenue when she decided to follow her son into the nearby ocean and learn to surf with him.
TRAFFIC
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The Oyster House is back
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Lari Robling: I entered the Oyster House with trepidation. It has been more than a year since its closing and return to its original owners.
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Bunnies hop back to the shore
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Dozens of former employees of the old Playboy Hotel & Casino, in Atlantic City, gathered in Avalon Saturday night to remember the good times they shared during the early 1980s.
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Jersey Shore resident says thanks, shoobies
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A Shore resident looks back on this longest of summers, with gratitude, not contempt, for faithful visitors.
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Summer still simmers at the Jersey Shore
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The blazing heat came late this year, and the Labor Day holiday will too, but there are still two more weekends of summer at the Jersey Shore to enjoy.
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North Wildwood's pool of rock
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If it's Tuesday afternoon in North Wildwood, that means live music poolside. For three decades, itinerant bluesy-guitarist John Gunther has played for many of the same people. Can life at the Jersey Shore get any sweeter?
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Seaside Heights bans smoking on the beach
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In their continuing quest to clean up Seaside Heights' hedonistic image, borough officials last week approved an ordinance that requires smokers to remain within 20 feet of the boards if they want to light up.
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See the sights on the way to the beach
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The amble down to the Delaware beaches and Ocean City, Md., can take the better part of three hours, the roads themselves having little distinctiveness, so it is often a good idea to break up the journey along the way.
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Pine Barrens offer a pleasant summer trip
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While it may not quite compare with the California Coast Highway drive or motoring through Yellowstone National Park in the fall, the drive through Central New Jersey takes Shore-goers through one of the magnificent natural wonders of the United States, the Pine Barrens.
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New in town? A handy shore-to-shore conversion guide
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NOTHING'S exactly the same from one beach town to the next, but a lot isn't foreign either, even in places where going "downashore" is going "downy shore" (Ocean City, Md.) or "to the beach" (the entire, misguided state of Delaware).
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