ATLANTIC CITY — The Chelsea, Atlantic City’s chic boutique hotel on the Boardwalk, will host the third annual Big Teplitzky Challenge on Saturday, May 18, at 1pm.
The Atlantic City Fire Department will face off with the Atlantic City Police Department in an effort to see who will be the first to clear their plates of the mega four-pound “Big Teplitzky” breakfast of pancakes, stuffed French toast, eggs, bacon, turkey sausage, pork roll, hash browns, grilled tomato, toast and a bagel — with orange juice and coffee to wash it all down, of course!
Will A.C. firefighter Jim McDevitt win a third straight Big Teplitzky Challenge?
All proceeds from ticket sales and sponsorships will benefit The Andrew Fisher Memorial Scholarship Fund and Cop2Cop. Andrew’s Scholarship Fund is a tribute to Captain James Fisher’s son, who was a brilliant chemical engineering student at Northeastern University in Boston at the time of his tragic death. Cop2Cop is a New Jersey based phone counseling service for law enforcement. Law enforcement officers, some of who have faced their own struggles with depression or have seen colleagues suffer, volunteer their time to staff the service.
Individuals or businesses interested in becoming sponsors of The Big Teplitzky Challenge should contact the Atlantic City Firemen’s Federal Credit Union at (609) 272-1000.
Tickets may be purchased in advance for $10 each through ACPD (Jane Tayoun: Janejap@aol.com/ 609-271-2500) or ACFD (Christine Parker: ccparker82@gmail.com/609-576-4084) or purchased at the door.
REVEL BEACH, ATLANTIC CITY — Binglo at Revel is an all new way to enjoy a “black light lit” Bingo series at The Social, the mega-resort’s 700-seat showroom located adjacent to the casino floor.
Binglo, which started in early April, is billed as a “ladies night out,” with hot guys calling numbers and checking cards, but it is open to anyone 21 or older, as long as you have a Revel players’ card. The card, and admission to the Binglo games, are free, and prize money totaling at least $2,500 is up for grabs each week.
Doors open at 4pm, the first round is at 5pm and the second session is at 7pm every Monday.
See a video about Binglo and learn more about other programming at The Social below.
ATLANTIC CITY — The Comedy Stop Café & Cabaret at the Tropicana is looking for the Atlantic City area’s Number-1 Fool.
Are YOU the No. 1 fool?
On Monday, April 1 — better known as April Fool’s Day — the Comedy Stop will host an amateur comedy night contest for that very purpose. Participants will be judged on a five-minute routine performed in front of a full house at the Comedy Stop (on the third level of The Quarter at the Trop).
There will be plenty of prizes and surprises, including cash gifts and of course, the title of “Number-1 Fool” to the grand prize winner. WZXL 100.7 FM DJ and comedian Scott Friedman will emcee the evening’s events, which start at 7pm. To enter, e-mail your name, address, phone number and date of birth to comedyac@aol.com. The deadline for e-mail entries is Sunday, March 24.
Participants must be at least 18 years of age. Entrants will be contacted by phone to participate in a semifinal audition, taking place at the Comedy Stop on Sunday, March 31. Semifinal winners will then compete for the title of No.1 Fool and cash prizes on Monday, April 1.
Prizes include $300 cash to the winner plus a performance during a regular Comedy Stop show (and, of course, the title of No. 1 Fool), $200 cash to the runner-up, and $100 to the third-place finisher. Spectator entry to the contest is $20 plus a one-beverage minimum. For more information, call 1-877-FUNNY-AC or visit thecomedystop.com.
ATLANTIC CITY — Revel is gearing up for spring with an Eggcellent Egg Hunt Weekend. This fun event will take place Friday, March 29, through Sunday, March 31.
The Egg Hunt will have prizes ranging from an overnight stay at Revel to dining certificates and free slot play. During the property-wide Eggcellent Egg Hunt Weekend, participants are encouraged to visit various venues within Revel to receive stamps for eggs containing prizes. Each stamp collected will also earn participants an entry into the grand prize drawing.
The winner will receive the “Spring Renewal” package at Bask salon and spa valued at $1,000. Participants who visit all venues will be given an egg containing a prize of a minimum $50 value. These prizes include a Luke’s Kitchen & Marketplace gift basket, Bask day passes, restaurant dining certificates, reward dollars and more. To redeem Egg Hunt stamps, visit the Revel Card Center.
Participants must be 21 or older and be a Revel Card holder. Those interested in participating must register at the Revel Card Center and pick up their complete list of participating venues. Visit revelresorts.com for more.
ATLANTIC CITY — Starting March 23, the famed Steel Pier on the Atlantic City Boardwalk will be open weekends at noon, and every day during Easter Week (March 31-April 5) before resuming a weekends-only (Saturday and Sunday at noon) schedule. During the summer season the Pier will be open every day, weather permitting.
Easter weekend events at the Pier include Breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, March 30. Kids ages 12 and under get a pancake breakfast (served 11am-12:30pm) and unlimited rides with the Easter Bunny until 5pm for $10, plus tax. For reservations call (609) 345-4893.
On Easter Sunday the Steel Pier’s Best Dressed Contest will include best-dressed boy and girl categories for ages birth-to-3, 4-7, 8-11 and 12-15 years. There will also be a Best Dressed Family category. Each winner will be awarded great prizes, and the Easter Bunny will be handing out free goodie bags (while supplies last) to contestants.
The Steel Pier is now offering buy-one-get-one-free ride passes online through April 1 (click here), or you can get the same offer at the Steel Pier ticket booths March 23-24, and March 29-April 1. Visit steelpier.com.
ATLANTIC CITY — Chicago’s Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti claimed his fourth straight King Cake Eating World Title on “Fat Tuesday” afternoon, Feb. 12, at Showboat’s House of Blues Party Pit, taking the $2,000 top prize out of $4,000 in total prize money.
Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti with his fourth King Cake Eating championship trophy. Photos by Christine Steiner
Bertoletti downed a dozen of the tasty treats in eight minutes for the victory, relegating Alexandria, Virginia resident Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas to second place and a $1,000 payout (third through fifth places got $500, $300 and $200, respectively).
The diminutive Thomas (left, with Bertoletti) is the top-rated female competitive eater in the world, weighing in at only 105 pounds. Bertoletti fell a bit shy of his 2010 record of 14 cakes (10.5 pounds) in eight minutes, but was nonetheless very satisfied with the effort on Tuesday.
“I feel great,” said Bertoletti, who has competed in 38 states and six countries, and holds 38 Major League Eating records including, along with king cakes, eating 275 jalapeno peppers in eight minutes and 72 cupcakes in six minutes. “There’s no better place than Showboat casino in Atlantic City to hold a competition like this. I’ll be back every year they do it.”
VENTNOR HEIGHTS, N.J. — A 5.7-mile paddleboard race and 2.5-mile fun paddle is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 5, at 10am in Ventnor Heights. All proceeds from a $30 registration fee and $20 after-party (fee for non-paddlers; paddlers attend free), T-shirt and merchandise sales, sponsorship and donations will benefit Hurricane Sandy victims through the Waves 4 Water’s Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund.
Sign-ups are at 10am at the Viking Rowing Club, Surrey and Calvert avenues in Ventnor, and the race and fun paddle begin 11am from the club. The after-party will take place at Tomatoe’s in Margate from 2-5pm and will include great food, music and a cash bar. According to event organizer Sean Duffey, several of the top paddlers will be flying in from the West Coast and around the country to attend.
For more details go to wavesforwater.org and click “Fundraisers,” or e-mail sduffey24@yahoo.com
The 18th season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour will be making a stop in Atlantic City on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12-13, 2013, at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Registration for the event — called Magic: Gathering Grand Prix Atlantic City — is $40 per player and takes place Friday, Jan. 11, from noon-8pm, and Saturday, Jan. 12, from 7-9:30am.
Magic: The Gathering is the world’s premier trading card game. Created in 1993, Magic is played approximately 12 million players per year. It can be played by two or more players, each using a deck of printed cards or a deck of virtual cards, through the Internet-based Magic: The Gathering Online or third-party programs.
In the Magic game, you play the role of a “planeswalker” — a powerful wizard who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you know and the creatures you can summon to fight for you.
An organized tournament system and a community of professional Magic players has developed, as has a secondary market for Magic cards. The Grand Prix Atlantic City event will debut a “play mat” featuring art by the legendary Randy “rk” Post, an noted illustrator of fantasy publications who will be on-site all weekend signing the mats. The first 600 players to register on Friday at Grand Prix Atlantic City and all “Sleep-In Special” registrants who pay before the Friday of the Grand Prix will receive a mat.
ATLANTIC CITY — Thanks for Giving Day — the Monday before the Thanksgiving holiday — is a unique collaboration of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and Tanger Outlets – The Walk. It includes free Tanger Outlets – The Walk coupon books, a chance to participate in one of five $500 shopping sprees, or win a Tanger Outlets $100 gift card. On Thanks for Giving Day, United Way supporters can go to The Walk and with their Thanks for Giving Day card, access a Tanger Discount book and enter to win the shopping sprees or gift card .
In response to the needs emerging from Hurricane Sandy, United Way and Tanger Outlets – The Walk, with the support of thousands of local donors, will kickoff a winter-apparel drive at Tanger Outlets as part of Thanks for Giving Day on Nov. 19. They will utilize five $500 shopping sprees to begin a collection, which will continue through the Holiday Season. Items include coats, hats, gloves, scarves and boots, which will be distributed to local families affected by Hurricane Sandy through The Salvation Army.
“United Way is able to touch so many in our community and Thanks for Giving Day is the perfect opportunity to kick off a winter apparel drive that is so needed in our community right now,” said Christine Bentz, assistant general manager of Tanger Outlets – The Walk.
All stores at Tanger Outlets – The Walk will be opening at 6am Friday, Nov. 23 — Black Friday — and remain open until 9pm. The outlets will offer incredible savings Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24-25, and will be open 10am-8pm both of those days.
OCEAN CITY, N.J. — Two quiet contests will be featured in Ocean City’s 10th annual Quiet Festival, scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday, Nov. 7-11.
An exciting new event, the Snore at the Shore, will challenge one’s ability to imitate quiet snoring in keeping with the sleepy, laid-back personality of the event. Participants will have the option of lying on a cot or sitting in a comfortable chair.
“We want to create an authentic atmosphere for this sound-breaking new event,” says Mark Soifer, festival chairman.
The Snore at the Shore is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 10, at 11am in the Senior Center of the Ocean City Community Complex, 17th and Simpson Ave. Entry is free and prizes will be awarded.
The “White Mice, Hamster, and Guinea Pig Challenge” went quite well last year, so the O.C. Quiet Fest will bring it back as a special event this year on Nov. 10. These pets will be judged for their lack of energy, unusual sleeping positions and disinterest in their surroundings. There will also be prizes for costumes and decorated cages and layouts. An exercise wheel will be provided for any mouse or hamster that feels the need to abandon its instincts and work out. Turtles and reptiles are welcome. There will be a special visit by the Turtle Singers with their awesome, gigantic turtle. This contest will be held starting at 10:30am at the Senior Center and will be a perfect complement to the snoring contest.
For a complete schedule of Quiet Festival events, Nov.7-11, call (609) 525- 9300. We would like a warning in advance if you and your pet will be there so that we can provide proper crowd control. Call or e-mail msoifer@hotmail.com — Carmella Shillito
The diminutive Thomas (left, with Bertoletti) is the top-rated female competitive eater in the world, weighing in at only 105 pounds. Bertoletti fell a bit shy of his 2010 record of 14 cakes (10.5 pounds) in eight minutes, but was nonetheless very satisfied with the effort on Tuesday.
VENTNOR HEIGHTS, N.J. — A 5.7-mile paddleboard race and 2.5-mile fun paddle is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 5, at 10am in Ventnor Heights. All proceeds from a $30 registration fee and $20 after-party (fee for non-paddlers; paddlers attend free), T-shirt and merchandise sales, sponsorship and donations will benefit 
