ATLANTIC CITY — A new 3-D light and sound show called Boardwalk Beat will debuts on Saturday, May 25, at Boardwalk Hall.

The ceremonial debut will include a dance party with live music, confetti cannons, the Boardwalk Beat Dancers, and other surprises. The dance party starts 8:30pm and Boardwalk Beat debuts 9pm at Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk (at Mississippi Avenue, in front of Boardwalk Hall).

Boardwalk Beat will run every half hour from 8 -11 pm nightly throughout the rest of spring and all of summer.  The newest production by the Montreal-based Moment Factory, Boardwalk Beat replaces the current 3-D light and sound show at Boardwalk Hall, Winter Sweet.
Boardwalk Beat takes a foot-tapping, heart-thumping journey through eight decades of musical history including ‘20s Rag Time, ‘30s Cotton Club, ‘40s Broadway Musicals, ‘60s Surf Music, ‘70s Disco, ‘80s Pop and ‘90s Hard Rock. Historic Boardwalk Hall is magically transformed into a gigantic whimsical jukebox hopping randomly from one musical era to another.

Boardwalk Beat is an engaging celebration of the unheralded history of music in Atlantic City, which has always been a musical hub with many world famous artists launching their tours here. Visitors are sure to tap their toes, nod their heads and swing their hips in time with the irresistible beat.

Boardwalk Beat joins sister shows Duality and Winter Sweet as part of Moment Factory’s only permanent, year-round installation in the United States. Each show and the technology behind them are uniquely designed for Boardwalk Hall.

Looking for something fun to do this President’s Day? Why not go swimming and enjoy a live performance.  Sean Anderson also known as Big Sean will be performing live at The Harrah’s Pool After Dark Sunday, Feb.17.

Big Sean is an American Rapper signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D Music in 2007. He then signed to Island Def Jam Recordings a year later. He returns to Atlantic City for another amazing performance since his last concert at the House of Blues in Showboat. Along with his dynamic rhymes and beats, Sean gave a speech in the middle of his performance to talk to the audience about his life, his struggles, and how he became Big Sean.

Here is a short video on Big Sean’s Live  Performance at the House of Blues last year.

The fun begins at 9pm when the doors open. Must be 21 or older to attend. Dress to impress, dress code is strictly enforced. For bottle service, cabana and table reservations, call 441-5585.
The tickets are on pre sale online for $20, and $30 for general admission. To purchase tickets online visit wantickets.com

—–By Christina Rodriguez

From Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top to Doc Watson, Sly and the Family Stone, David Bowie and Adam Sandler, here are some tunes via YouTube for your Thanksgiving soundtrack:

Led Zeppelin “Thank You”

Sly & The Family Stone  “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin”

The Skillet Lickers “Turkey in the Straw”

Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith  “Turkey in the Straw”

ZZ Top “Thank You”

Kelly Clarkson “Thankful”

Dido “Thank You”

Andrew Gold “Thank You For Being a Friend”

Doc Watson “The Lone Pilgrim”

Adam Sandler “Thanksgiving Turkey Song”

Leonard Cohen “First We Take Manhattan”

David Bowie “Suffragette City” (Live)

Click here for more Thanksgiving songs and videos from AC Weekly’s holiday playlist.

Last Saturday, Nov. 3, NBC’s Saturday Night Live had a little fun with the flap between New Jersey Gov.Chris Christie and Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford in relation to evacuation orders for Atlantic City due to Hurricane Sandy last month.

The Christie bit comes at about the 2:17 time mark of video below.

Langford was mentioned in the skit.

On the (still standing) Atlantic City Boardwalk on Friday, Nov. 9, Langford, at a press event to thank first responders during the Sandy crisis in the resort, said he got a kick out of the skit and thanked SNL for putting his name in front of a national audience.

A week after Hurricane Sandy hit the New Jersey shore, power lines were sparking along Shore Road in Northfield (Atlantic County), about 10 minutes from Atlantic City, on the drive-home commute just after 5:15pm on Monday, Nov. 5.

The sparking cables, located along Shore Road, had drivers swerving out of the way and pushing towards the intersection at Mill, Tilton and Shore roads.

Atlantic City Weekly was there and captured the following video at the time of the event:

Now this is pretty funny…

A hilarious new two-part video short was filmed at The Borgata in Atlantic City featuring the Billy and Adam “casino virgins.”

Check them out:

Atlantic City — On Thursday, April 19, Revel invited close to 2,000 guests to sample two new restaurants that have just opened at the brand-new resort, bringing even more culinary class to Atlantic City, which has an abundance of delectable dining possibilities.

Check out the videos below, including interviews with chefs:

‘Iron Chef’ Marc Forgione’s American Cut Restaurant Opens at Revel in AC

Azure by Allegretti, A Seafood Dining Experience at Revel, Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY — Last Thursday, April 12, the Taj premiered its amped-up Almost Angels act in a special media event. Along with the Angels, several other amenities new to Ego Lounge were also debuted, including burlesque-style dancers performing on mini-stages during and in-between the Angels’ 50-minute sets, and “dealer-tainers” running blackjack tables in Ego’s club-like setting.

Click here to see a video of the show. Click here to see a photo gallery.

“I think the hotel did a great job incorporating the freestyle dancers, and trying to bring the energy to all areas, and not just on the stage,” says Angels’ co-producer Dan Mulhern. “When the Angels finish their set we have a whole crew of dancers who come into this room and keep the energy going. So it’s really about not letting the energy levels drop.”

A typical Angels’ set list might span the gamut of old school dance, hip hop, pop music or R&B. Last Thursday’s set list included “I Got A Feeling” (by the Black Eyed Peas), “U Make Me Feel” (Cobra Starship), “We Found Love” (Rihanna) “Beep” (Pussycat Dolls), “Only Girl” (Rihanna), a rap medley, “Hold It Against Me” (Britney Spears), “ET” (Katy Perry), “Ass Back Home” (Gym Class Heroes), “Give Me Everything” (Pitbull) and a Janet Jackson medley.

MAYS LANDING, N.J. — Jam-band fans surely have their sights set on the June 15-17 Phish Phest at Bader Field, but for a sampling of the group that set the genre standard, head to Hamilton Commons in Mays Landing for the second annual “Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies” on Thursday, April 19, starting 7pm.

The one-night-only event features a previously unreleased full-concert video of an iconic show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin on July 18, 1989. The two-and-a-half hour show is complemented by a previously unreleased live track from the band’s spring 1990 tour with rarely seen photos.

The Dead’s summer of ’89 Alpine Valley gigs have been heralded by “Deadheads” as personifying the band’s peak, latter-day form, including the heyday of keyboardist Brent Mydland (who tragically passed away about one year later). The following night’s Alpine Valley show (July 19) was also recorded and made into the highly regarded Downhill From Here video released in 1997.

Tickets are available now at the theater box office (4215 Black Horse Pike in Mays Landing), or call (609) 677-9083 or go here.

The July 18, 1989 Alpine Valley set list includes:

Touch of Gray, Jack Straw, Jack A Roe, Minglewood Blues, Friend of the Devil, Memphis Blues, Bird Song, Promised Land, Sugar Magnolia, Scarlet Begonias, Women Are Smarter, Eyes of the World, Drums-Space, China Doll, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Hey Jude Reprise, Throwing Stones, Sunshine Daydream. (Encore) The Mighty Quinn.