A preview of this week’s “Local Scene,” AC Weekly’s photo page on page 6 each issue:
Keyshia Cole at the Borgata (Photo: Donald Kravitz)
Stone Sour at the House of Blues at Showboat (Photo: Mike McHale)
Ciara at the Pool at Harrah's (Photo: Tom Briglia)
Mims at the Pool at Harrah's (Photo by Tom Briglia)
Click here for more photos and videos from the past week (and beyond).
Our Jan. 14 cover. When Gaga was supposed to play the Borgata, but cancelled at last moment.
Atlantic City Weekly has learned via littlemonsters.com that Lady Gaga will be touring the U.S. with her Born This Way Ball show in 2013, including a return to Boardwalk Hall on March 2 in Atlantic City.
Click here for full U.S. tour schedule.
READ & SEE: Review and photos from Lady Gaga’s last show in Atlantic City.
Dusk at Caesars hosted eight Playboy Playmates on Sat., August 11, in Atlantic City as the Bunny Bunch came to town and signed autographs and for pics with “fans.”
The Playmates in attendance were Shannon James, Leola Bell, Patrice Hollis, Lindsay Vuolo, Cassandra Lynn, Stephanie Larimore, Courtney Culkin and Atlantic County native Jen Pershing (click to read interview).
According to Dusk officials, the Playmates “had a line of people waiting to meet them in 21 Bar for the meet-and-greet from 7p-9p. They dined at Mia Saturday evening and raved about the new menu items. Later that night, they partied alongside fans and a packed house in Dusk while drinking Perrier Jouet Rose champagne.”
Here are some photos (credit: Nick Valinote):
Neon Hitch, photo by Tom Briglia
London-born singer Neon Hitch performed at the Pool After Dark at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City on Saturday, June 16. The singer, who was has been working the electronic dance music scene for the past few years is expected to release her full length debut album this summer. She is known for her dance single “F U Betta,” released in March.
Photo: Tom Briglia
Photo: Tom Briglia
Phish at Bader Field, Atlantic City on Friday, June 15. (Photo: Nick Valinote)
The three-night stand Phish graced Bader Field with in Atlantic City this past weekend (June 15-17) was deemed a success by the city, local business owners and Phish fans.
(VIEW: Photo gallery from the Friday night Phish show, including phans!)
The three shows featured several interesting covers, including The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” Bob Dylan and the Band’s “Quinn the Eskimo,” Talking Heads’ “Crosseyed and Painless,” the early Led Zeppelin rocker “Good Times, Bad Times,” New Hope, Pa.’s Ween (”Roses Are Free”), the Who’s “Drowned,” Stevie Wonder’s “Boogie on Reggae Woman” and Dizzy Gillespie’s “Manteca.”
Photo: Nick Valinote
Here are the set lists from all three shows and some video.
Friday, June 15:
Set One
1. The Sloth
2. My Sweet One
3. 46 Days
4. Camel Walk
5. Tube
6. Cities
7. It’s Ice
8. Ginseng Sullivan
9. Stash
10. Simple
11. The Wedge
12. Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan
13. The Squirming Coil
Set Two
1. My Soul
2. Birds of a Feather
3. Back on the Train
4. Heavy Things
5. Twist
6. Piper
7. Billy Breathes
8. Sneakin’ Sally thru the Alley
9. David Bowie
Encore
1. First Tube
Saturday, June 16:
Set One
1. Mike’s Song
2. I Am Hydrogen
3. Weekapaug Groove
4. Gumbo
5. Halley’s Comet
6. My Friend, My Friend
7. Wolfman’s Brother
8. Lawn Boy
9. Possum
10. Punch You in the Eye
11. Ocelot
12. Suzy Greenberg
Set Two
1. Crosseyed and Painless
2. Slave to the Traffic Light
3. Light
4. Theme from the Bottom
5. Golgi Apparatus
6. Sand
7. Backwards Down the Number Line
8. Run Like an Antelope
Encore
1. Good Times, Bad Times
Donna Summer performing in Atlantic City in September 1984. (Photo: Herb Steiner)
Although she performed the world over during her long career in music, Boston-born Donna Summer (LaDonna Adrian Gaines) spent more than a little while in Atlantic City, where she performed just about every other year — or every year for a spell. The “Queen of Disco,” who passed away after a battle with cancer on May 17, is seen below with her two daughters, Amanda and Brooklyn, on stage at the Trump Taj Mahal in 1990 during one of her many shows in the resort.
Here is an interview with the late Summer from 2010, where she discusses her first new album in nearly two decades, how she is always writing, and how she was an accomplished painter.
Summer worked hard for her money indeed, and she will be missed by music fans across the world. AC Weekly sends our condolences to her family and friends.
Our prayers also go out to the family and friends of the late Robin Gibb who passed away on Sunday, May 20, also from cancer, at age 62.
Atlantic City was hopping over the final weekend in April.
Click on links to see photo galleries from each event.
The Counting Crows returned to the Borgata.
Third Eye Blind performed at the Golden Nugget, and also held a meet and greet before the show, one of many events during the Nugget’s Grand Opening Weekend bash. (See video here)
Saturday night, Bernard Hopkins was defeated by “Bad” Chad Dawson at Boardwalk Hall.
In Somers Point, the annual Bayfest was held on Bay Avenue on Saturday and on Sunday the South Jersey Field of Dreams in Absecon held its opening day of the baseball season.
CLICK: Upcoming concerts and events in the Atlantic City region.
He’ll turn 65 June 1, but legendary rocker Ron Wood is feeling young.
He’s got a hit radio show, just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the second time, and played one sensational concert at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City on Saturday, April 21.
Oh, and Woody has a new art exhibition “Faces, Time and Places,” running through July in New York, with a satellite gallery — featuring the Rolling Stones’ member’s originals and prints — just opened at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City.
The one-off Atlantic City showed Woody to be in top form, prancing around the stage in a high-energy show that last about two hours. He played guitar and sang, as well as slide guitar and harmonica.
Following Wood and friends’ “Golden” weekend in Atlantic City, it’s gonna be a big weekend this weekend for the Nugget, too.
Courtesy of Workhouse PR (Adam Nelson)
Click on links below:
PICS: Ronnie Wood Golden Nugget Art Gallery Opening
AC Weekly Exclusive: Interview with Ronnie Wood
Audio: Ronnie Singing “Seven Days,” written by Bob Dylan, with AC Weekly
Photo by Donald Kravitz
The Chelsea in Atlantic City held the 2012 Wedding Social on Friday, April 13.
Brides-to-be selected from The Knot wedding Web site competed to win a free wedding at the Chelsea.
Brides-to-be dove into a 5-foot wedding cake to win a wedding at the boutique hotel.
Friday night’s bash at the Borgata’s MIXX in celebration of the 2012 Top 40 Under 40 honorees was the eighth annual Top 40 Under 40 event put together by the Greater Atlantic City Jaycees and Atlantic City Weekly.
Here is a photo gallery from the March 30 party.
Click here to see past year’s photos, videos and honorees.
Click here to read 2012 Top 40 Under 40 honorees’ reactions.
