Eddie's Garage will perform at Pinestock II in Mays Landing on Saturday.

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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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.

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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.

Capt. Jim Fowler and crew with a nice haul of mahi and tuna.

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.

U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds

The Atlantic City Airshow “Thunder Over the Boardwalk” will take place rain or shine Wednesday, Aug. 25, as long as the cloud ceiling and visibility are within Federal Aviation Administration minimums for flying aircraft. There is no rain date for the show.

In the eight years that the Atlantic City Airshow has taken place, it has never been canceled.

Current weather conditions call for a slight chance of rain — 20 percent — for the day of the Airshow. For weather updates, monitor News Talk 1400-AM WOND or WMGM TV40 or your local news affiliate. For any updates on the Atlantic City Airshow, go here.

Roy Goldberg with the Hooters' Eric Bazilian

On Sunday, Aug. 22, the Gold Foundation hosted its sixth annual Margate Rock Festival, a free summer blockbuster concert presented by Harrah’s Entertainment. The live concert featured The Hooters, whose show was followed by a fireworks display over the Margate bayfront sponsored by Tomatoe’s Restaurant.
The Hooters hit the club scene in 1980 and skyrocketed to national prominence with hit songs like “Day By Day,” “And We Danced,” “Where do the Children Go,” “All You Zombies,” “Hanging on a Heartbeat,” “Can’t Get Blood from a Stone” and others. Original band members Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Dave Uosikkinen were later joined by Fran Smith and John Lilley, and that combination has remained intact for over 20 years.

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The Atlantic City Free Public Library’s International Night performance scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 18, featuring Island Jam (pictured left) has been canceled due to inclement weather.
This performance will not be rescheduled as part of the International Night series, however Island Jam is tentatively scheduled to perform at the library’s Family Fun Festival on Saturday, Sept. 25 (on Tennessee Avenue next to the library, 11am-4pm).
The International Night Series finale (at Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk) is slated for 7pm Wednesday, Aug. 25, and will feature Bollywood Axion (pictured right).
For more information, call 345-2269, ext. 3112 or go here.

The Cape May County Zoo had a special event on May 10 when two male snow leopard cubs were born. The parents are mom Himani and dad Vijay. Now three months old, the Zoo had a contest to name the playful cubs. The names of the cubs will be revealed during a ceremony tomorrow (Aug. 10) at the zoo in Cape May Court House. Go here for the story , including a too-cute video

Dan Fogel

Margate resident and jazz organist Dan Fogel is back by popular demand to perform at the 11th annual Chicken Bone Beach Concert Series. The free weekly concert series takes place at Kennedy Plaza on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, located between Mississippi and Georgia avenues (adjacent to Boardwalk Hall). Fogel and his quartet, which includes Fogel on Hammond B3 organ, Pete Chavez on tenor sax, O’Donel Levy on guitar and Webb Thomas on drums, will perform Thursday, Aug. 11, starting at 7pm.
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