The 2nd Annual Atlantic City Weekly Nightlife Awards took place at Boogie Nights at Resorts, Atlantic City. Readers of Atlantic City Weekly voted for the best of Nightlife in the Greater Atlantic City and Atlantic County Area of the New Jersey Shore. The event was hosted by Scotty and JoJo of WJSE 102.7. Guest presenters from Atlantic City Weekly, NBC TV 40, the Courier Post and the Philadelphia Daily News participated in the 2010 Nightlife Awards. Camera by Christine Steiner. Video Production by Lew Steiner.

Atlantic City Nightlife Awards 2010 – Video by Lew Steiner and Chris Steiner

Atlantic City Weekly and its parent company, Review Publishing, will be a Bronze Sponsor for the 51st Running of the Atlantic City Marathon, scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 15. As a Bronze Sponsor, Review Publishing will provide listings in the “online events calendars” section of the Atlantic City Weekly, Philadelphia Weekly, and South Jersey Review publications; provide blog postings on all three papers’ Web sites, and provide regular updates on the Atlantic City Central blog site. Additionally, AC Weekly will shoot, edit and run a four-minute video of the highlights of its Web site and on YouTube.com after the event.
Pick up a race application at the Milton and Betty Katz Jewish Community Center, 501 N. Jerome Ave. in Margate, or click here for an online registration form. All races start 8:30am Sunday, and include the Marathon (26.2 miles, and a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon), the Half Marathon (13.1 miles), the 10K (6.2 miles), the 5K (3.1 miles), the Maria Berenato Kugel Walk to benefit the Alcove Center for Grieving Children and The Fred Spano Kids Fun Run.

The cover of the Sept. 25, 1975 issue of Whoot.

Caesars Atlantic City is celebrating 30 years in town. Resorts celebrated that milestone last year. Atlantic City Weekly has them both beat. AC Weekly began on this day, 35 years ago, June 19, 1974 as Whoot “The Entertainment Paper for Night Owls.”

A young Stockton College student named Lew Steiner had an idea for an entertainment paper to cover the Atlantic City nightclub (The Whoot Route) and dining scene. With the help and backing of his parents, co-founders Herb and Marcia Steiner, he brought that idea to life. When gambling became a reality in 1978, Whoot was already established as the go-to guide for what was happening in the AC region.

Lew and I knew each other from Ventnor and later as college students at Stockton, where we both worked for the school newspaper, The Argo. I began doing movie reviews for the Whoot in 1975, moved on to the Philadelphia Journal and Philadelphia Bulletin from 1978-80, then returned to my hometown weekly in 1983. I’ve been here ever since.

When you work for a weekly paper you tend to do a bit of everything. As well as all the fun, glamorous stuff like covering shows and interviewing celebrities, my Whoot duties included typing in ad copy on early photographic typesetting machines that had to have the type fonts placed in the machine manually, only four at a time. I helped opaque the page negatives by filling in the flaws by hand with a special type of Sharpie, often late at night. I remember one evening where I went to a show, covering a performance by Ann-Margret, then returned to the office around midnight to help finish the negatives.
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