The Pinestock II Music Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 4, from 2pm-2am at the Watering Hole Café in Mays Landing. Admission to the festival is free and open to all ages until 9pm, at which time a nominal cover charge will apply and guests must be 21 years of age or older to stay later.  

Pinestock was put together by members of the band Eddie’s Garage and was the brainchild of band member Billy Zane, percussionist and vocalist. Zane’s motivation behind creating the festival was to thank fans who have supported Eddie’s Garage and other local musicians throughout year, while showcasing the home-grown talented musicians and bands.

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Atlantic City’s need to give guests other incentives to visit the resort in the face of increased gaming competition has been a well-documented news item lately. So well documented, in fact, that neighboring municipalities seem to have picked up on the crusade with upgrades, improvements and added attractions of their own.

A prime example can be found in A.C.’s immediate neighbor to the north, Brigantine. St. George’s Pub — a popular but almost prohibitively small neighborhood niche — will soon be a full-fledged spacious and upscale dining establishment, as owner Jim Fowler leased the building next door (formerly Flagship Resorts), invested over $300,000 in interior and exterior upgrades, and will soon be open for business.

“We are 100 percent done and waiting for release of plans from the Department of Community Affairs in Trenton, then our inspection can be completed and a CO (certificate of occupancy) is given and we can open,” says Fowler.

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Event organizer Carver Entertainment Group, citing the pending adverse weather conditions brought on by Hurricane Earl, has canceled the Sweet Soul and Rock & Roll Concert Series — to have taken place this Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Wildwoods Convention Centerr — and plans to reschedule at a later date. No date has been announced as of this time.

Three legendary groups from the Motown era were scheduled to perform at in the inaugural event — The Spinners, Little Anthony and the Imperials (pictured), and The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards. Celebrity impersonator Linda Axelrod was to host the show, performing at Joan Rivers.

For more information contact the Carver Entertainment Group at 570-646-2643. For information about the Wildwoods, go here or call 609-729-9000.

As Hurricane Earl moves toward the East Coast of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is taking aggressive actions to prepare for the storm and is coordinating closely with state and local officials along the East Coast to help support their response as needed.  FEMA is also encouraging all East Coast residents to take steps now to prepare for possible severe weather in the coming days.

Go here for more information on how to be prepared.

FEMA encourages all residents and those visiting the East Coast to pay close attention to local updates and heed evacuation orders should they be issued.
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Penny Angels Beagle Rescue will present the 10th annual Beagle Barbecue on Sunday, Sept. 12.

The barbecue will take place from noon-4pm, at Atlantic County Park (Estell Manor), Pavilion C, Route 50 in Mays Landing. For directions, go here.

The cost is $15 for adults, $7 for kids ages 4-10 and free for kids ages 3 and under. There will be food, drinks, kids games, a 50/50 drawing, a bucket auction, a beagle parade, a best-dressed costume contest and the annual “Blessing of the Animals.”  All friendly, leashed dog breeds invited.

Call: Christine at 973-610-8049 or Joan at 609-965-9476 with any questions.

Penny Angel Beagle Rescue is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to beagle rescue and community education on the breed. They provide adoptions at the Petsmart located in Mays Landing on Saturdays from 11am-4pm . If you live In Southern New Jersey and want to rescue a Beagle, stop by.

Due to a scheduling conflict, the Justin Bieber concert scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 20, at Boardwalk Hall has been changed to Friday, Nov. 19. All tickets purchased for the Nov. 20 date will be honored Nov. 19. The showtime has also been changed from 8pm to 7pm.

When folks in Atlantic City talk about a trip to the White House, they are not talking about a trip to D.C., they are talking about the fabulous sub shop. Now it has been announced that the White House will open a new location at the Trump Taj Mahal next spring. Go here for the story.

Including one very exciting one co-organized and co-presented by Atlantic City Weekly called “Conversations & Storytelling,” which will be followed by a free and open-to-the-public Viewing Party at Caesars on Sept. 19, the night of the premiere of HBO’s upcoming series Boardwalk Empire.

Click here for all the info, plus info about some of the major events planned for the Atlantic City area over next couple months in relation to the show.

While you’re at it join the AC Weekly Boardwalk Empire Fan Club on Facebook to keep up to date on all the news and promotions surrounding the Cable TV series.

Philanthropist and Philadelphia attorney James Binns has overseen the funding and dedication of hundreds memorial plaques for police officers who died in the line of duty (including eight in Atlantic City and two in Margate), and created a similar program that commemorates the lives of Philadelphia firefighters who lost their lives while serving the public.

He’s established a fundraising effort called Cop Wheels that has provided dozens of patrol motorcycles to various police departments, and he single-handedly revived a popular Philadelphia spectacle (scheduled for Sept. 18 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly) called the Hero Thrill Show that has raised well over $1 million in five years to pay for the college tuitions of children of police officers/firefighters who died in the line of duty.

This Saturday, Aug. 28, as a sort of prelude to that Philadelphia show, the City of Margate will host its own Hero Thrill Show. It will take place at Ventura’s Greenhouse at Benson Street and Atlantic Avenue (by Lucy the Elephant) from 11am-3pm, and will include daring stunts by the Philadelphia Police Department Motorcycle Drill Team, a K-9 unit demonstration, stunts by the Philadelphia Police Narcotics Strike Force Bicycle Team, and a demonstration by the Atlantic City Bomb Squad. The event is free to the public, and there will be food and entertainment provided.

For more on this event, go here.

There’s no better table fare than fresh tuna, and no, that’s not a reference to cans of Starkist the neighborhood ACME recently stocked on its shelves. It refers to fresh fish taken out of local waters by charter boats and offshore anglers, and this year has been an exceptional one regarding tuna and other large quarry caught off the southern New Jersey coast.

By “offshore” we mean the deep-water canyons about 60 to 80 miles out, among them the Hudson, Toms, Carteret, Lindenkohl, Spencer, Wilmington, Baltimore and Poor Mans that yield such big-game quarry as tuna, marlin, mahi-mahi, wahoo and swordfish. These are deep-water predators that you won’t find close to shore, and ones that put up the kind of fight you’d better be prepared to wage for a long time if the fish has any kind of size to it.

Last Saturday, Aug. 21, Atlantic City Weekly associate editor Ray Schweibert went on his second-ever offshore fishing trip aboard his buddy Jim Kay’s spectacular Viking sport-fisher Deep Blue out of Brigantine. For more on this thrilling adventure, go here.