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The First Bartender Awards Atlantic City Weekly readers have voted for the best bartenders in a number of categories.

Winners to be announced at Diving Horse.

Still Chasing the Trane By Jeff Schwachter Jazz troubadour Sonny Fortune carries on the torch of John Coltrane, performs on his 73rd birthday at Dante Hall in Atlantic City.

Golden Vibes By Ed Condran The Beach Boys dive into new album and golden anniversary tour with Brian Wilson. Wilson and Mike Love chime in on the grand reunion.

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Local Scene Coasting Ante Up: Poker Lowdown Curtain Call: Interview with Penn Jillette Ocean City Weekly Movies: Dark Shadows and Safe

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AC Weekly: Headliners to May 31 Casino Capsule (Casino Lounges) Upcoming Headliners Cultural Calendar (Arts and Events)

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Nightlife: Autism Benefit Music Fest

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After Dark Nightlife Listings Dining: Jade Orchid Area & Casino Dining Listings

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1: Florence + The Machine performed a stellar show to a packed audience at the Borgata Sat., May 12.

2: Sleigh Bells played the House of Blues at Showboat on May 12. 3: FIN at Tropicana’s new manager George Fleming. Left to right: Fin executive chef Demetrios Haronis, Fleming and restaurant chef Al Hughes. 4: Kenny i, of the Kenny i Orchestra, performed at a benefit concert for Somers Point’s Gateway Theater last Friday, May 11, at Mainland Regional High School in Linwood.

5: Members of the Sonny Keaton Quartet with Margate musician Dan Fogel at the Top of the Trop May 10 for the venue’s weekly jazz spring concert series at the Tropicana, in partnership with the Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation. 6: Whitney Cummings did her standup show at the Tropicana May 11. 7: Patti LaBelle at the Mother’s Day Concert at Boardwalk Hall, held May 12. 8: Weird Al returned to the House of Blues for a May 11 show. 9: Smithville’s Renaissance Fair, held May 12.

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Taste of Revel May 18-20

With all the complexities of opening a brand new destination resort in Atlantic City, the executives at Revel already had a lot on their plate. However, those same executives decided to put some great food on the plates of visitors, by presenting the inaugural Taste of Revel, presented by Food & Wine Magazine and created in partnership with Travel + Leisure. This three-day epicurean extravaganza from May 18-20 will feature exclusive experiences developed specifically for Revel. Revel’s all-star line-up of chefs — Alain Allegretti, Jose Garces (pictured with wife Beatriz), Marc Forgione, Michel Richard and Robert Wiedmaier — will be joined by Food & Wine’s celebrated wine expert Anthony Giglio and Travel + Leisure’s features director and senior correspondent Nilou Motamed for more than a dozen events taking place throughout the resort. Highlights of The Taste of Revel include the following events throughout the resort: A Kick-off Bash hosted by all five Revel chefs Friday, May 18, 6:15pm, $125; Conquer the Steak with Chef Mark Forgione, Sat., May 19, noon, $85; The Art of Paella with Jose Garces, Sat., May 19, 2pm, $85; “Pig Out” with Revel chefs as they put their signature spin on pork, Sun., May 20, noon, $100.

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On Saturday, May 19, the Beach Shack in Cape May will hold its inaugural “Clam-A-Rama” clamshell-pitching tournament on the beach right in front of the newly refurbished hotel, located at 205 Beach Ave. in Cape May. The tournament will be accompanied by live entertainment and fresh clam specials at the Rusty Nail, the Beach Shack’s iconic surfer hangout that boasts the longest wooden bar in Cape May. Registration is at 10am and the tournament goes from 11:30am-3:30pm, rain or shine. Pitching clamshells will be provided. The object is to toss the shell into a hole 25 feet away. If it lands in a circle around the hole it scores a point, if it hangs on the edge of the hole it’s two points, and if it goes in the hole it’s three points. Each round is 30 minutes long or the first team to reach 21 points, whichever comes first. The tournament is a round-robin format in stage one, then morphs into a single-elimination championship format in stage two. The grand prize is an overnight stay at the Beach Shack, or more importantly bragging rights as best damn clamshell pitcher in Cape May County.

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Willie Nelson’s new album, Heroes, his first for Legacy Recordings, features everything fans could want from a new Willie release.

Fresh chestnuts (“Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” “Hero” and “That’s All There Is to This Song”); guest artists galore (Snoop Dogg, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Jo Shaver, Sheryl Crow) and re-imagined takes on countrymusic roots tunes (1930’s “My Window Faces South,” 1943’s “Home in San Antone” and 1949’s “Cold War with You”). The standout cut is Willie’s acoustic rendition of Coldplay’s hit “The Scientist,” which initially aired in part during a Grammy broadcast commercial earlier this year.

Willie may be 79, but he’s touring, writing and recording as if he was 40 years younger. Legacy will work with the country icon for future releases, included planned new recordings and archival collections. — Jeff Schwachter

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Jeremy and his piano teacher, Rick Dekarski fine- and broad-range motor skills.

“Music can be a very powerful medium for altering anyone’s state of being and changing how we actually feel,” he says, “and can be very effective in producing a very deep healing state of relaxation and, in the process, reduce stress, promote sleep and more.”

In the case of an autistic child, music has been shown to assist in self-esteem and furthering personal growth and development.

It can help reinforce desired responses, assist in reducing negative responses, and increase participation in socially accepted ways.

“Music is a universal language, and for children who have these communication and social-interaction barriers, music is especially well suited to their needs because it captures and helps maintain attention,” says Ryan.

“In a non-verbal child, for example, it allows communication without language ... it can stimulate cognitive functioning and may lead to the development of verbal communication, speech and language skills.”

Ryan says he’s received a lot of support is his quest to make a difference. “[Le Grand owner] Mike [Messina] and [Boneyard owner] Tony [Stolfo] are on board with nearly anything I bring to the table, because they understand what I’m trying to do, they’re both passionate about the same things, and they both have kids and realize how fortunate they are to be in the positions they’re in,” he says.

“Krissy [Smith, Jeremy’s mother] and I both feel like we were chosen for something like this, and our relationship’s stronger because of him. We’ve never taken a ‘why me?’ attitude. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to help so many children in need, and help make them feel connected in a disconnected world.” n

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ROBABLY THE ONLY ISSUE JERRY Ryan is more passionate about besides promoting local, original music is helping autistic children interact more effectively with others and live more enriched lives.

Both are subjects close to his heart, the former because he’s long been consumed with instilling the area’s music scene with more originality and creativity, the latter because he is personally raising a son diagnosed with autism, a disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication skills.

This Friday through Sunday, May 18-20, Ryan will blend both ambitions into the inaugural Elephants for Autism Music Festival, which takes place at The Boneyard and Le Grand Fromage (two A.C. venues within short walking distance of one another), and include more than 100 bands, poetry readings, and appearances by Miss Teen N.J. and mentalist Lucas Simmons. Among the bands is a power trio from Belgium called Pandora’s Bliss.

“I have a nine-year-old son named Jeremy with autism and he’s the driving force behind what I’m doing, not only with this festival but in everyday life,” says Ryan. “This kid has inspired me every day, and his hard work and love of music are parallel to mine. Our bond has grown so deep through music that we are almost like the same person. Music is not only healing my son, but also healing me at the same time.”

Proceeds from the festival will go toward creating free music programs for autistic children. Ultimately Ryan would like to establish a school or expand existing facilities that aid autistic children through music therapy.

“It’s probably all going to be done through the organization FACES in South Jersey [Families for Autistic Children Education and Support, see faces-autismsupport.org]. We’ll probably put the money into an account and then determine how to best use it.

“There’s a new music studio in Galloway for autistic kids run by a lady named Faith Ozan,” adds Ryan. “She’s great, and does these storyboards of the songs that make it easier for [Jeremy] to understand. She has years of experience working with autistic kids.

I’d eventually love to help expand what she’s done, but for right now the goal is to start small and just try to generate as much money as possible for free music programs.”

The rhythmic component of music has proven, says Ryan, to have an organizing force in the sensory systems of individuals with autism. As a result, improvements can be made in areas like auditory processing,

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ROPONENTS OF BRINGING Internet gambling to New Jersey — which generally means online poker — have been getting a lot of bad news in the last couple of weeks.

And that in itself is not surprising anymore. As political issues go, Internet gaming has been ping-ponging back and forth in New Jersey like few others.

Guessing whether or not the state will adopt Internet gaming seems to depend on what week you check on the status.

It’s up. It’s down. It goes on forever.

Right now, it seems to be down again.

Now, there is strong speculation that Governor Chris Christie is against it — again — and a new public poll shows much of the public opposes it as well.

Let’s start with the poll.

A Fairleigh Dickinson University Public Mind poll released Monday finds 58 percent of state residents are against legalizing online gambling, while 31 percent support it.

The poll also found that by roughly the same margins, state residents support legalizing sports betting.

Which is fine, considering we already knew the sports-betting part. Last fall state voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum on sports betting and the state has already passed a bill allowing it, provided a federal ban on sports betting is lifted.

Two congressmen, Frank LoBiondo, R-2nd, and Frank Pallone, D-6th, are trying to move legislation through Congress to change the federal ban.

The Internet gaming bill currently working its way through the New Jersey Legislature is less tricky. At least it should be after the U.S. Justice Department issued an opinion saying that states could allow online gaming confined to only state residents without violating the federal ban on online gambling.

That seemed to put the issue back on the fast track in New Jersey and bills are working their way through both houses of the Legislature.

But now the Fairleigh Dickinson poll — and there have also been others — takes some wind out of the bill’s sails.

According to the poll, Women opposed Internet gambling by a 65 to 25 percent margin and men voiced opposition at a 52 to 37 percent rate. The younger a voter is, however, the more likely they are to support it. But the only age group that supported it in the poll were those 30 and under (not coincidentally, I’m sure, the prime age group for Internet poker players).

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Republicans (58 percent) and Democrats (60 percent) oppose Internet gambling at roughly the same rates.

And making matters worse, a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week speculates that Christie is having second thoughts about the bill.

Christie vetoed a bill on Internet gaming bill last year for several reasons, including concerns it would violate the federal ban.

But the DOJ opinion seemed to cover his concerns and Christie seemed to be supporting the idea.

Now, however, according to the Inquirer report, he may be backing off the idea out of concern for his national political aspirations and a possible vice presidential nomination.

The main sponsor of the bill, Sate Sen. Raymond Lesniak, D-Union, out-and-out accuses Christie of backing off so as not to offend conservative financial supporters, most notably, Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive Officer who was the major financier of the nowdefunct presidential campaign of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

Adelson has said he feels Internet gaming will hurt all brick and mortar casinos.

Also supposedly influencing Christie is Caesars Entertainment, which owns casino properties in Atlantic City, and Woody Johnson, the owner of the NFL’s New York Jets.

Caesars has consistently opposed the idea, saying they want a change in the federal law first. It’s not hard to imagine that the company wants a national Internet gaming port located in its home base of Las Vegas, regardless of its A.C. holdings.

Johnson opposes sports betting, as most in the NFL do, which could presumably be offered online as well.

Lesniak also said that in a meeting last month with himself, Sate Sen. James Whelan, D-Atlantic, and Christie’s legal staff, they were “stunned” to hear that the Governor’s Office does not feel that Atlantic City casinos have made the case that Internet gaming would help them.

And further complicating things is the New Jersey bill itself, which would allow offering online gaming to out-of-state residents and even international customers if it was deemed legal to do so.

That speaks to Christie’s concerns in vetoing the first bill. Plus now he has another public opinion poll against Internet gaming to cite.

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ENN JILLETTE MAY HAVE BEEN fired during the 11th episode of the current season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, but that didn’t stop the magician from pulling off what might be his most impressive trick during his 40-year career.

Jillette was a loser, but his favorite charity, Opportunity Village — which supports people with intellectual disabilities — was clearly a winner.

“After I was pretend fired by my pretend boss [Donald Trump], my real boss wrote a check to Opportunity Village for the full amount Trump was going to write had I won the whole thing,” Jillette tells Atlantic City Weekly.

“It was kind of funny,” Jillette, the hulking half of the magic and comedy team Penn & Teller, adds with a big laugh.

“Trump does the whole [TV] show, and Caesars [Entertainment] just writes a check [for $250,000].”

For more than a decade, Penn & Teller have been the resident stars of a show at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, which is owned by Caesars Entertainment. The quarter-million check the gaming company wrote to Jillette’s charity was merely a fraction of the free advertising value the company received each of the 11 weeks the magician was on the network show.

Penn & Teller take a rare break from Las Vegas to perform at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City Friday and Saturday, May 18-19.

To those who know Jillette, his decision to accept an invitation to be part of the conniving, backstabbing and ruthless reality series that pits celebrities against one another probably didn’t make sense.

Almost as important to the show’s watchability factor as winning the weekly challenges assigned by Trump and his minions is the behind-the-scenes drama in which the contestants gossip about one another, trade accusations, yell, scream, cry, stamp their feet, pound their fists and dream up new ways to sabotage one another.

Trouble is, that goes against the grain of Jillette’s personality and the way he was raised.

“I just don’t do that,” says Jillette, who went deep into the competition only to be fired on the April 22 show. “[The producers] want us to talk and squabble and bicker back and forth so they can get it on video. But when I’m working with Penn & Teller, there’s no gossip, no squabbling and no bickering. If there were any squabbling and bickering, we got over it 38 years ago.”

Unlike other contestants on the show, Jillette never seemed to take anything that happened to him very personally. He never raised his voice and refused to engage his teammates in a negative way.

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— and was willing to let the chips fall where they may. It wasn’t a crushing blow to his ego when he was eventually fired, because it meant he could finally go back to his life of multi-tasking four or five jobs every day, which range from working on new material for Penn & Teller’s live show, writing a book, researching material for the duo’s Showtime cable series Penn & Teller: Bulls**t or recording music.

“I was essentially fired because of the lack of drama and emotion,” he says. “Trump said … if you just show some drama and passion, you won’t be fired. But I wasn’t gonna do that because it’s just not me. I was brought up in a family that never raised their voice in anger. I don’t enjoy pointing out other’s faults. I love arguing about what’s wrong with intellectual ideas and positions, but I don’t like arguing about how someone acts.”

More than once during the series, Jillette received a talking-to by the show’s producers, who wanted him to add more emotion to his performance. Jillette graciously listened to their suggestions and then refused to act on them.

“I’m not gonna sit there, at 57-years-old in front of a guy who owns a lot of real estate, and say to him ‘I don’t think Miss Universe did the best she could have with the task’,” he says. “That’s not the way I was brought up. What I did was say was ‘Here’s what I did [with the task], I think I worked hard, thank you and goodnight.”

So why did Jillette even agree to participate in Celebrity Apprentice? Probably for the same reason he appeared — briefly — as a contestant on Dancing With The Stars a couple of seasons ago. He considers side projects like this an extension of his work with Penn & Teller.

“It’s all part of my job, whether I’m doing Piers Morgan or [the series] Numbers or whether I’m doing Bulls**t on TV,” he said.

“Part of it is to just let people that Penn and Teller do live shows and they can come and enjoy them.”

The curiosity factor of producing unscripted television also came into play, he added.

“I wanted to see that from the inside,” he says. “Look, if it was 1968 and I were asked to be on Laugh-In or if I were asked to be on Bewitched, I would certainly do it. I like being in the middle of something that was culturally interesting.” n

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25 Hours * Resorts. 344-6000. resortsac.com.

24-hour casino bar/lounge.

40/40 Club 2120 Atlantic Ave., at The Walk. 4494040. the4040club.com. Upscale sports bar.

Atlantic City Bar & Grill 1219 Pacific at S. Carolina Ave. 3488080. acbarandgrill.com. Open 24/7.

Over 20 HDTVs. Drink & app. specials daily. Upstairs lounge available for private parties.

Back Bay Ale House 800 N. New Hampshire Ave. 449-0006. backbayalehouse.com. Open seven days, 11am-9pm, till 11pm Fri.-Sat. Daily sunset toasts 4pm-sunset.

Beach Bar at Atlantic Club * Boston and Pacific aves. 347-7111 (formerly ACH Beach Bar). Opens Fri., May 25, and will be open Fri.-Sun. from May 25-June 24, then seven days through Sept. 3. Hours are Sun.-Thurs., noon10pm; Fri.-Sat., noon-2am. Never a cover charge. Happy hour 5-7pm daily.

Blue Martini * Bally’s, Park Place & Boardwalk. 3402709. ballysac.com. Live bands and DJs Fri. & Sat nights, and Latin Night Mondays. Bottle service available.

Boardwalk Beer Garden * Caesars, 2100 Pacific Ave. boardwalkbeergardenac.com. 345-2337. Open noon-midnight Fri., Sat. & Sun. Great selection of beers and microbrews.

Boneyard Bar & Grill 20 S. Virginia Ave., 348-3360. Live music on weekends.

Borgata Comedy Club * Music Box, One Borgata Way. theborgata. com. Tickets $20, shows 9pm nightly at the Music Box, except during headline acts.

Casbah Night Club * Taj Mahal, 1000 Boardwalk. 449-1000. casbahclub.com. Open Fri.,Sat. 10:30pm to 6am. A.C.’s original casino nightclub.

The Chelsea Chelsea Hotel, 111 S Chelsea Ave. 800-548-3030. thechelsea-ac.com.

Teplizsky’s Happy hour 3-8pm Fri.-Sun. Chelsea Prime Supper Club Thurs.

7-9:30pm, Fri. & Sat. 8-10:30pm, Happy hour Thurs.-Sat. 5-6:30pm. C5 nightclub Fri.-Sat., 10pm-4am.

Chelsea Pub 8 S. Morris Ave. (across from Trop garage) 345-4916. chelseapubandinn.com. Open 24 hours. Three bars, six pool tables, outdoor patio, drink specials.

Comedy Stop Cafe & Cabaret * The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. tropicana.net.

1-877-FUNNYAC. Happy hour 5:30-7pm daily at Cassie’s Bar. The Continental The Pier Shops at Caesars, 674-8300. continentalac.com. Famous Philly martini bar export.

Cuba Libre * The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 348-6700. cubalibrerestaurant.com. Latin music, exclusive rum bar.

Happy hour 5-7pm. Late Night Latin Floor Show every Fri. and Sat night.

The Deck * Golden Nugget, Brigantine Blvd & Huron Ave., AC marina district. 441-8300. goldennugget.com. Two bars, live music weekends, then seven days from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Diving Horse Cabaret 9 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. 3440119. Divinghorseclub.com. Gentleman’s club with burlesque entertainment, steakhouse, couples resort inn and Luxx Lounge nightclub.

Dizzy Dolphin * Atlantic Club Casino, Boston Ave. and the Boardwalk. atlanticclubcasino.com.

Open Fri. & Sat., noon-3am; Sun.Thurs., noon-midnight. Happy hour 5-7pm.

Dock’s Oyster House 2405 Atlantic Ave. 345-0092, docksoysterhouse.com. Opens 5pm. Piano bar nightly.

Dos Caminos Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd.

441-5165. harrahsresort.com. 4415747. Tequila lounge open until 11pm weekdays, 1am weekends. DJs Wed., Fri.& Sat. Ducktown Tavern 2400 Atlantic & Georgia aves. 449-1212. ducktowntavernac.com. Open 24/7.

Dusk * Caesars, 2100 Pacific Ave. 345-3875. duskac.com. Multi-level, 10,000 square foot nightclub. Open Tues., Fri. & Sat., 10pm till late. Tues. is service industry night.

Ego Bar and Lounge * Taj Mahal, 1000 Boardwalk. 449-1000. trumptaj.com. Nightlife hot spot. Almost Angels perform every Fri. & Sat., 10pm2am.

Eden Lounge * Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd.

441-5165. harrahsresort.com. Live music starting 8pm nightly. Closed Tues.-Thurs.

Evo Trump Plaza, 2225 Boardwalk. 4410400. trumpplaza.com. Posh bar and dining. Specialty cocktails and wide variety of wines by the glass.

Firewaters Tropicana’s Marketplace. 344-6699. tropicana.net. 101 bottled & 50 draft beers, martini bar.

Foundation Room * Showboat’s House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk. 343-5795. hobatshowboat. com. Lounge hours Thurs., 8pm-4am, Fri.-Sat., 6pm-2am.

Girasole Ristorante & Bar 3108 Pacific Ave. (in Ocean Club Condos), 345-5554. girasoleac.com.

Mediterranean style café with alfresco patio and lounge.

Gypsy Bar * Borgata, One Borgata Way. 1-866-MYBORGATA. theborgata.com.

Live music, gourmet tequila menu.

Hard Rock Cafe Trump Taj Mahal, 1000 Boardwalk at Virginia Ave. 441-0007. hardrock.com.

Home of authentic rock ’n’ roll memorabilia.

Harry’s Oyster Bar Bally’s, Park Place and the Boardwalk.

431-0092. harrysoysterbar.com. Casual sports-bar atmosphere. Happy hour daily 4pm-7pm. Live music weekends.

Guy’s Night on Thurs., May 24th, 5:3010:30pm.

H2O Pool & Lounge Golden Nugget, Huron and Brigantine Blvd., goldennugget.com. 800-777-8477.

A.C.’s sleekest new outdoor poolside lounge. Built-in seating areas, fire pit, music and libations. Open 11am-10pm.

Pool opens 6am.

HQ Nightclub Revel, 500 Boardwalk, 340-0003. revelresorts.com. Four-level, 40,000-squarefoot nightclub, with different themes on

each level. Live entertainment nightly.

HQ Beach Club Revel, 500 Boardwalk, 340-0003. revelresorts.com. Daylife and nightlife atmosphere on 45,000 square feet of beachfront space. Pool parties starting Memorial Day weekend.

House of Blues Party Pit Showboat’s House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk. hobatshowboat.com. 800522-4700. Live music, DJs and dancers Fri. & Sat., 7pm-4am.

Irish Pub St. James Place at the Boardwalk. 3449063. theirishpub.com.

Izakaya Borgata, One Borgata Way. 317-1000. theborgata.com. Modern Japanese pub. Sushi, sake and cocktails. Izakaya Monday, $7 sushi and drinks 5pm.

Jezebel’s * Located at Trump Plaza. 441-6000. trumpplaza.com. Casino lounge open 24 hours. Live entertainment, cocktails, bartop video poker, big-screen TVs. Luxx Lounge 9 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. 3440119. Divinghorseclub.com. Open Thurs.Sat., 11pm-7am. Bottle service, DJs every weekend, Wed. is industry night.

Le Grand Fromage 25 Gordon’s Alley. 347-2743. Late night menu, lounge open 8pm-8am. Live music on weekends.

Liquid Bar * In Trump Plaza lobby, off Boardwalk at Mississippi Avenue. trumpplaza.com. Stylish bar in casino lobby.

Entertainment weekends.

Live Bar * Golden Nugget, Huron and Brigantine Blvd., goldennugget.com. 800-777-8477.

Live bands and DJs Thurs.-Sat. nights from 9pm. Bottle service available.

Long Bar Borgata, One Borgata Way. 1-866-myborgata. theborgata.com. Seven flat-screen TVs and small-plates menu.

Open 4pm-2am Sun.-Thurs., 2pm-2am Fri.-Sat. Main Stage * Bally’s Wild Wild West, Park Place & Boardwalk. 340-2700. ballysac.com.

Beer-pong, mechanical bull. Open 24/7.

Live music weekends.

Melting Pot 2112 Atlantic Ave. (by the Walk), meltingpot.com. 441-1100. Open daily till 10pm, Fri.-Sat. till 11pm. Thurs., May 24, Girls Night Out, martinis and wine specials, live music.

Missile Bar * The Quarter at Tropicana, upper level of Cuba Libre. 348-2000. missilebar.com.

Open midnight-dawn Thurs.-Sun. DJ entertainment.

MIXX * Borgata, One Borgata Way. 1-866-MYBORGATA. theborgata. com. Fri., Sat. & Sun. 10pm-late.

High-energy dance club with worldrenowned DJs. Mountain Sports Bar * Bally’s Wild Wild West, Park Place & Boardwalk. 340-2700. ballysac.com.

Nightclub open 24/7 with western theme, DJs and live music. mur.mur * Borgata, One Borgata Way. 1-866-MYBORGATA. theborgata.com.

Fri., Sat., Mon. 10pm-late. Nightclub with a personality of its own.

Mussel Bar Revel, 500 Boardwalk, 225-9851, musselbar.com/revel. The comfort of a pub and energy of a sports bar with live rock ‘n’ roll. GLBT May Mixer Wed., May 23, 5:30-7:30pm.

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The Palm The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 344-7256. thepalm.com. award-winning wine list. “Prime Time” Happy hour 5-7pm daily.

Phillips Seafood The Pier Shops at Caesars, Level 3, phillipsseafood.com, 348-2273. $4 Happy hour all day Sun., 4-7pm mon.-Fri., bar only. many $4 specials.

Piano Bar * Resorts. 340-7698. resortsac.com. Live entertainment, food and drinks. Open mon. 6-11pm, Fri. & Sat. 9pm-1am.

Planet Rose Karaoke Bar The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 344-6565.

Pic-A-Lilli Pub 231 S. Tennessee Ave. 344-1113. Dinner menu. Beer specials daily, 11pm-2am.

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The Pool * Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd., harrahsresort.com. Tropical oasis with large heated pool, six hot tubs, 12 cabanas.

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Pro Bar * Resorts dining level. 340-7698. resortsac. com. a.C.’s first in-casino gay nightclub.

Classic speakeasy motif with live dancers and DJs. Open Thurs.-Sun. 8pm-3am.

Fri. and Sat. Providence * The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 345-7800. providenceclubac. com. Nightclub w/ VIP bottle service, private lounges and energetic atmosphere.

Red Square The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 344-9100. chinagrillmgt. com. “5 for 5” Happy hour with $5 specials from 4-7pm.

The Ridge * Bally’s Claridge tower. Park Place and the Boardwalk. 340-2000. ballysac.com. a hybrid of a bar with casino games.

Ri´-Ra´ Irish Pub The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 348-8600. rira.com. authentic Irish pub. Late Night Happy hour 11pm. Live music: Thurs., may 17, Eleven Eleven, 11:30pm; Fri., may 18, DJ mike the Wild man, 11:00pm; Sat., may 19, The Nameless Few, 11:30pm.

Royal Jelly Burlesque Nightclub Revel, 500 Boardwalk, 340-0003. revelresorts.com. DJs and dancing at 10pm, “after-hours rock ‘n’ roll burlesque” starting 2am. Shows feature a live band, laser lights and dancers.

Rumba Lounge * Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. 3488600. tropicana.net. Sports-themed lounge. Every Fri. & Sat., live DJ and dancers 10pm-3am. Live music.

Rush Lounge * Golden Nugget, Huron and Brigantine Blvd., goldennugget.com. 800-7778477. Live entertainment nightly, bartop video poker, blackjack, roulette.

Bottle service available.

Sammy D’s Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd. 4415402. sammyds.com. Open 24 hours. a retro coffee shop with wines by the glass, half bottle or bottle. Specialty cocktails served in pint-sized glasses or in fishbowls for sharing.

Sammy’s Beach Bar * Bally’s Hotel-Casino, Boardwalk at Park Place. 340-2000. Open Fri.-Sun. may 18-20, then seven days starting Fri., may 25. Sammy’s own Beach Bar Rum will debut this summer.

Scales Grill & Deck Bar 800 N. New Hampshire Ave. (Gardner’s Basin). 345-8222, scalesgrill.com. Open daily 11am. Happy hour mon.-Fri. 4-6pm.

Scarduzio’s Showboat, Delaware Ave. & Boardwalk. showboatac.com. Lounge open 5:30pm-2am. Sundays is Service Industry Night. DJs every Fri. & Sun., 9pm-1am.

The Social * Revel, 500 Boardwalk, 340-0003. revelresorts.com. Three bars and two levels.

Live music nightly, 9pm-12:30am.

Souzai The Pier Shops at Caesars. Level 3, souzaisushi.com, 348-4443. Serving sushi and cocktails. Karaoke Sun, 9-11pm.

Two Happy hours, 4-6pm and 9pmclose.

Tango’s * The Quarter at Tropicana, Brighton & Pacific aves. tropicana.net. Lounge next to gaming floor with live music nightly.

Teplitzky’s Lounge The Chelsea hotel. 111 S. Chelsea Ave. 800-548-3030. thechelsea-ac.com.

Happy hour 3-8pm daily with $5 drink specials, $3 domestic beers and $4 imports.

Throwbacks Bar & Lounge 511 NB. Arkansas Ave. 344-0883. throwbacksac.com. Open 8pm-4am daily.

Entertainment most nights, and drink specials daily.

Tony’s Baltimore Bar & Grill 2800 Atlantic Ave. 345-5766 and 3459461. baltimoregrill.com. Bar open 24 hours, kitchen till 3am.

Toga Bar * Caesars, Boardwalk and Arkansas Ave. 348-4411. Caesarsac.com. Ultra lounge with high-energy DJ music, posh VIP areas, bottle service. Happy hour Sun.Thurs. 5-8pm.

Trump Plaza Beach Bar * Boardwalk at Mississippi Ave. 441-6000.

Voted one of the “sexiest beach bars” by the Travel Channel. Open memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.

Tun Tavern Inside Sheraton Hotel, Two Convention Blvd. (across from Convention Center).

347-7800. tuntavern.com. Happy hour 5-7pm mon.-Fri. Live music weekends 8pm-12am; Fri., may 18, Jon anthony; Sat., may 19, Patrick Stoner.

The Whiskey Bar * Resorts dining level, 344-6000.

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The Wonder Bar 3701 Sunset Avenue (at the Albany Ave. bridge). 344-8888. wonderbarac.com.

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Laguna Rum Bar 1400 Ocean Ave. and the beach, Brigantine. 266-7731. lagunagrill.com.

Ocean views, entertainment, deck bar, all-american wine list.

St. George’s Pub Towne Center, 4282 Harbour Beach Blvd.

266-1001. stgeorgespub.com. Drink specials. Pool table. Open 24 hours. Quizzo Wed. Live music Fri. nights.

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Weekly drink and dinner specials.

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Black Cat Bar & Grill 1 N. Shore Rd. (off White Horse Pike), Absecon. 641-2323. Happy hour mon.-Fri, 5-7 pm. Live music.

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Charlie’s Bar 800 Shore Rd., Somers Pt. 927-3363. charliesbar.com. Open daily to 3am.

Clancy’s By the Bay 101 E. Maryland Ave,, Somers Pt. 9276969. Full bar, outdoor deck opening in the summer of 2012.

Cousin Mario’s 5401 Harding Hwy. (Route 40), Mays Landing. 625-2523. cousinmarios.com.

Happy hour noon-7pm weekdays. Wed. karaoke. Live music Thurs.-Sun, 7:30pm; Thurs., may 17, Down on mill St.; Fri., may 18, Scott; Sat., may 19; Tru mix, Sun., may 20, The Legends.

Crab Trap 2 Broadway Somers Pt. 927-7377. thecrabtrap.com. Bay views. Live music Wed., Fri. & Sat. with 70’s Band, and Thurs. with Jesse Boyington. diOrio’s Cafe 10 McArthur Blvd. Somers Pt. 927-6111.

Pool table. DJs and occasional live music on weekends. dubliner irish Pub 325 E. Jimmie Leeds Rd., Galloway. 6522210. dublinerpubandgrill.com.

Formica Brothers Cafe Kensington Square, Northfield, 6466565, formicabrosbakery.com. Live music every every Fri. 7-10pm.

Fred & Ethel’s lantern light Tavern Rt. 9 & Moss Mill Rd., Smithville. 6520544. Nightly specials. Live music every Fri. and Sat. Happy hour 4-7pm daily.

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310 White Horse Pike, Absecon. 652-1942. wlgoodfellows.com.

Gregory’s 900 Shore Rd., Somers Pt. 927-6665. gregorysbar.com. Weekly beer and drink specials. Taco Thursdays. Saturdays w/ DJ Ralph, 10pm.

Hi Point Pub (Skelly’s) 5 N. Shore Rd., Absecon (off White Horse Pike). 641-3172. Open 24/7. la Hacienda 265 S. New York Rd., Galloway. lahaciendanj.com. 652-6050. $1 Taco Tues. & Sun. Drink specials daily. Live music 7:30-11:30pm. library iii 6605 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 645-7655.

Live music Tues. & Thurs. Patty Blee; Wed. Don Ellsworth; Fri.Sharon Sable Trio; Sat. Cole Brothers; Sun. Patty Balbo, 7-11pm.

Ram’s Head inn 9 W. White Horse Pike.

Galloway.652-1700. ramsheadinn.com.

Restaurant and bar. Pianist in the tavern Fri. & Sat. nights.

Sam’s Rialto Grill 18 S. Main St., Pleasantville. 646-5128. samsbarandgrill.com.

Sandi Pointe 908 Shore Rd., Somers Point, 927-2759. sandipointe.com. First mon. of each month is Big Band Night, 8pm; Tues., Tim Lekan in the Loft, 7pm; Wed. the Tom Angello Trio, 7pm; Fri. Yvonne & Jack Duet. 7pm; Sat. Lew London & Bob mower, 7pm. Fri., may 18, Hawkins Road Trio, 7-10pm.

Smithville inn Rt. 9 & Moss Mill Rd., Smithville. 6527777. smithvilleinn.com. Wed. Jazz night, Fri. & Sat. Lenny mitchell on piano.

Happy hour 5-7pm mon.-Fri. Tap Room Bar & Grille At Atlantic City Country Club, 1 Leo Fraser Dr., Northfield. 236-4465. Daily happy hour 4-6pm. Brunch Sun. 10am-2pm.

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Several walks and runs for worthy causes are slated for the May 18-20 weekend in Ocean City, including Sunday’s 21st annual O.C. Triathlon/Duathlon.

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N OCEAN CITY, THERE’S NO better way to celebrate the month of May and start the summer season off right than with a handful of cool races for worthy causes.

Residents and visitors are preparing to hit the sand and boards to compete for a good cause. This weekend the famed Ocean City Boardwalk will welcome all participants to partake in three walks and runs, as well as the 21st annual O.C. Triathlon/Duathlon.

The American Heart Association Heart Walk is the first to kick off Saturday morning, May 19, at the Sports & Civic Center on 6th Street and the Boardwalk. The local community-service and advocacy walk is an Ocean City effort to promote and safeguard healthy lifestyle choices, such as maintaining a heart-healthy diet and active living. For

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23

American Heart Association Heart Walk Sports & Civic Center, 6th & Boardwalk, registration 9am. Walk 10:30am.

856-546-5600.

Miles for Melanoma 5k Run & Walk 34th Street Beach. Registration – 9am. Run begins 10am. Registration fee is $25 if registered online before May 12th, $30 day of event. 717-538-4359. blackoutmelanoma.com.

O.C. Opera Fest Fundraiser.

Ocean City Yacht Club, 100 Bay Rd. O.C. Opera Fest International is an exchange program that sponsors local singing talent performances in Germany and brings young German talent to Ocean City. The fundraiser will be a lively musical preview of what her performers will present in Germany. There will be a grand buffet of chocolate desserts and more. Tickets are $30 for adults, $35 at the door and $15 for children 12 and under. 7pm. 399-7291. foxvocalarts.com.

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SUNDAY, MAY 20 Ocean City Triathlon/Duathlon Various locations. Registration fee. Free to spectators. ocnj.us.

OCFPL - The Icons of Jazz - Lecture Series Ocean City Library , 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City. Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; Dizzy Gillespie; Charlie Parker; Thelonious Monk; McCoy Tyner; Sonny Rollins; John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, plus more. Located in the Lecture Room, 110. This series will document and explore why these musicians are so important to the overall history and development of Jazz. There will be lecture, discussion, music, and film. Free.

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Walk for Lupus Now South Jersey Register at the 6th St. practice field, 6th St. off the boardwalk. 2K and 4K walks.

Registration 9am, walk begins 10am. 302622-8700. walkforlupusnowsouthjersey. org.

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months, southern New Jersey has pulled together to build awareness, assemble teams and raise funds for the cause, culminating with the Heart Walk.

Meanwhile, the third annual Miles for Melanoma 5K Run and Fitness Walk is also scheduled for Saturday morning. According to the American Cancer Society, the estimated risk of developing invasive melanoma in the United States is just 1-in-41 for men and 1-in-61 for women. The walk honors the memory of Andrea Sheridan, who passed away on May 28, 2009, just two-and-ahalf months after being diagnosed with stage-four melanoma. It was created by Sheridan’s daughter, Carly Bauermaster, who wanted to find a way to keep her mother’s memory alive while raising awareness and seeking a cure for the disease that took her life.

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FRIDAY, MAY 25 Unlocking of the Ocean & Business Persons Plunge Beach at the Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace.

Participants dress in business suits, carry brief cases and march into the ocean to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance to welcome the new season. Free. Noon.

525-9300.

SATURDAY, MAY 26 Tony Mart Presents - Rockin’ The Ocean City Music Pier.

Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace and Boardwalk.

A tribute to the horn band of the 70’s – Chicago, featuring a nine-piece SOS Show Band. $20. 653-6069.

SUNDAY, MAY 27 Barks on the Boards Registered dogs can walk on the boardwalk from noon–2pm. At 1pm there will be a canine contest held in front of the Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace and

“After my mom passed away I got in touch with the national director of Miles for Melanoma to set this up,” says Bauermaster. “My mom loved the beach, so we chose Ocean City, particularly the 34th Street area where my family vacationed.

“We just wanted to do something to keep everyone coming back each year and remember her. And May is also Melanoma Awareness Month.”

All of the funds raised by the Miles for Melanoma walk and run will be donated to the Melanoma Research Foundation to help fight and find a cure for the deadly skin disease. The event takes place during low tide, allowing participants to run on hard sand by the water’s edge. It begins on the beach at Ocean City’s 34th Street and proceeds south past 49th Street before returning to the starting point.

Ocean City’s 21st annual Triathlon/Duathlon begins at the break of dawn Sunday, May 20, at the Aquatic and Fitness Center between 17th and 18th streets on Simpson Avenue. A warm-up is scheduled for 6-7:30am, then participants will compete in a quartermile (16 laps, eight laps for kids) timed race in the aquatic-club’s pool. Biking and running will follow at 9am, starting with a 16-mile bike course (eight miles for kids) that leaves from West Avenue.

“It’s a great season-opener race and it’s also a great first-timer’s race,” says

Lisa Rumer, program coordinator at the Aquatic and Fitness Center.

Rumer founded the event more than two decades ago with the goal of giving participants a fun way to reach their workout goals and get in shape for summer, tweaking it each year to make it more enjoyable.

“You’ve got to start getting the kinks out sometime, and May just seems like the time to do it,” says Rumer.

Race day sign-ups are still available; call Rumer at (609) 525-9317 to register and join in the fun.

The fourth annual South Jersey Walk for Lupus starts Sunday at 10am on the Boardwalk. Beginning and ending at the Ocean City Music Pier, participants choose between a 2k or 4k course, with proceeds benefiting the programs and services of the Lupus Foundation of America’s Philadelphia Tri-State Chapter, which serves southern New Jersey, Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania.

After hibernating all winter, runners, bikers and swimmers will be out in full force in Ocean City, competing, exercising and spreading awareness to various causes, many of whom have friends or family or were themselves personally impacted by the maladies they seek to defeat. Each event has been inspired, coordinated and directed by people of passion and motivation. n

Boardwalk. Free. 398-9500. hsocnj.org.

OCFPL - The Icons of Jazz - Lecture Series Ocean City Library , 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City. Louis Armstrong; Duke Ellington; Dizzy Gillespie; Charlie Parker; Thelonious Monk; McCoy Tyner; Sonny Rollins; John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, plus more. Located in the Lecture Room, 110. This series will document and explore why these musicians are so important to the overall history and development of Jazz. There will be lecture, discussion, music, and film. Free.

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Nor’easters vs Jersey Express Carey Stadium, 6th St. and Atlantic Ave. Soccer. Half time events include a Lil Kickz demonstration and an introduction to our Ocean City FC youth teams. Free entry to any youth soccer player on Ocean City FC summer teams. $8 Adults. $4 children. 7pm. 525-9999. OceanCityFC.com

MONDAY, MAY 28 Memorial Day Service Veterans Memorial Park, 5th& Wesley Ave. Free. 11am. 525-9300.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1 TO JUNE 3 Ocean City Flower Show Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace and Boardwalk.

Commerical and amateur displays. Show times are Friday 2-9pm, Saturday 10am9pm and Sunday, 10am-4pm. 525-9300.

SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Mitchell McAllister OC Walk 6th St. practice field. The Walk is in memory of teen Mitchell McAllister and raises funds to support the Emmanuel Cancer Foundations Direct Service Programs.

Proceeds will support families in South Jersey who are faced with the challenges of caring for a child with cancer.

Registration 8:30am. 856-853-4803. emmanuelcancer.org.

Farmer’s Market O.C. Tabernacle, Wesley Avenue.

Farmer’s Market every Wednesday. 8am1pm. 525-9300.

Shelter residents. 8:30am. Registration is $30 per person or $100 a foursome and includes lunch. 398-9500. hsocnj.org.

Ocean City Police Chase 5k Boardwalk, regstration O.C.H.S., 501 Atlantic Ave.. 5K Footrace, 2 Mile Fitness Walk. Proceeds will benefit the Ocean City Police Benevolent Association who support Scholarships for High School seniors, The Christmas toy drive, and distribution of free bike helmets with the funds they raise throughout the year.

525-9108. ocpba.com.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 10

Wonder’s Brithday Bash at Gillian’s Wonderland Pier Wonderland Pier, 6th St. and Boardwalk.

All rides will be only 1 Ticket and at 9pm see a birthday bash fireworks show. Rides open at 6pm and Wonder Bear will be available all night for photos. Celebrating 82 years on the Ocean City Boardwalk.

399-7082.

Nor’easters vs Baltimore Bohemians Carey Stadium, 6th Street & Atlantic Avenue. Soccer. Half time events includes the 3rd Annual soccer game between the Ocean City Fire Dept and Ocean City Police Dept as part of a long running rivalry to raise money for each department’s Benevolent Fund. Free entry to any youth soccer player on Ocean City FC summer teams. $8 Adults $4 Kids. 7pm. 525-9999.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 8 Nor’easters vs Reading United Carey Stadium, 6th Street & Atlantic Avenue. Soccer. ‘School’s Day’ invites kids from all our local schools to enjoy a game of top quality soccer. Free entry to any youth soccer player on Ocean City FC summer teams. $8 Adults $4 Kids. 7pm.

525-9999. OceanCityFC.com

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May 27, Boardwalk Hall New Edition is reunited and on their 30th Anniversary TRumP TAJ mAHAL Tour, including a stop at Boardwalk Hall on Sunday, May 27, at 8pm. Tickets are $46, 449-1000 $65, $77, and $127. Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ricky Bel, Mike Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe and Ralph Tresvant will perform their most famous songs such as “Candy Girl,” “Can You Stand the Rain” and the chart topping jams that launched their solo careers includ‘Legends in Concert’ “My Prerogative” (Bobby Brown), “My Legends in Concert Theater Legends in ing My My” (Johnny Gill), “Sensitivity” (Ralph Concert is at Bally’s with an open-ended run Tresvant), and “Poison” (BBD). featuring tribute artists recreating the musical magic of Ray Charles, Liza Minnelli, Tina Turner, the Blues Brothers and Elvis. Tickets are $16.25 for children (3-16) and $32.50 for adults. Showtimes are Sun. 8pm; Tues.

8pm; Wed. 3 and 8pm; Thurs., Fri. 8pm and Sat. 7:30 and 10pm. The Legends series will Beach Boys 50th Anniversary continue with a brand new summer line-up Tour beginning on May 25 featuring tributes to Whitney Houston, Adele, Justin Timberlake, May 19, Event Center The Beach Boys will celebrate their 50th anniversary with Bobby Darin, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis.

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Music Box The Borgata Comedy Club offers fun-filled evenings featuring a trio of comedians daily (except during headliner engagements). Showtimes are 9pm and the tickets are $20. (Visit theborgata.com).

Appearing now to May 18 and May 20 are Paul Bond, Billy Garan and Kevin Meaney.

On tap May 21-24 are Tom McTirnan, Michael Somerville and Patty Rosborough.

Scheduled May 28-31 and June 3 are Traci Skene, Eddie Clark and Uncle Larry Reeb.

Golden Nugget Golden Boys: Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Fabian

May 26, Grand Ballroom The Golden Boys present their classic hits on Saturday, May 26, 9pm. Tickets range from $32.77 to $55.37 plus taxes and fees. The show unites three performers who emerged from the same South Philadelphia neighborhood at the same time, and went on to become pop stars. Their collective hits include “Venus,” “De De Dinah,” “Volare,” “Wild One” and “Turn Me Loose” and “Tiger.”

Harrah’s Resort Penn & Teller

May 18-19, Concert Venue The rock stars of magic, Penn & Teller return to the East Coast and Atlantic City for shows at Harrah’s on Friday, May 18, and Saturday, May 19, at 9pm. Tickets are $75. Known for giving away their magic tricks and providing an occasionally shocking amount of fake blood, Penn Gillette (the tall talkative one) and Teller (the silent one) have been performing together for 35 years. (See story, p.12)

The band released a self-titled debut in June, 2009, featuring the single “Oh, Yeah.” Their current release is Chickenfoot III featuring the single “Different Devil.”

Garbage

May 25, Music Hall The alt rock band Garbage headlines at the Music Hall on Friday, May 25, 9pm. Tickets are $29.50 and $39.50. Garbage recorded their self-titled debut album in 1995 and after a slow steady climb, the album reached platinum status on the wings of the hit songs “Only Happy When It Rains” and “Stupid Girl.” After several more albums, the band took a seven year break and now has returned with the new album Not Your Kind of People and the single “I Hate Love.”

Big & Rich

May 26, Music Hall The country duo of Big & Rich, best known for their breakout single “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” headlines at the House of Blues on Thursday, April 26, 9pm, joined by Cowboy Troy. Tickets range from $45-$105. In 1998, Kenny Alphin and John Rich came together to form the duo Big & Rich. Rather than perform what is thought to be traditional country music, the duo infuses hip-hop, rock, Native American yell and soul, along with the traditional sounds of country music.

Alien Ant Farm

May 27, Party Pit Memorial Day Weekend 2012 will be a memorable one for the House of Blues Party Pit, as Alien Ant Farm plays a free concert open to the public.

The Southern California quartet known for clever humor and quirky videos will be performing hits from their four albums starting at 11pm. The band is best known for hits like the cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal,” “Movies” and “These Days.” Showboat Atlantic City urges fans looking to view the concert up close to come early, as reservations are not accepted.

Paul Anka

May 26, Concert Venue Singer-songwriter Paul Anka headlines at Harrah’s Resort on Saturday, May 26, 9pm. Tickets range from $65-$120. In a career lasting five decades Anka transformed himself from being a ‘50s teen idol into a top vocalist and songwriter.

Anka’s signature songs include “Diana,” “You Are My Destiny,” “Lonely Boy,” “Put Your Head on My Shoulder,” “It’s Time to Cry,” and “Puppy Love.”

Collective Soul

May 27, Concert Venue Alternative rock band Collective Soul hits the Concert Venue stage on Sunday, May 27, 8pm. Tickets range from $40-$65. Collective Soul made a name for themselves in the 1990s with four platinum selling CDs and hit singles including “Shine” from their debut album and their self-titled sophomore album which spawned such hits as “Gel,” “December,” “The World I Know,” and “Where the River Flows.”

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May 18, Music Hall Chickenfoot is a supergroup formed in 2008 featuring Sammy Hagar (Van Halen, Montrose), bassist Michael Anthony (Van Halen), guitarist Joe Satriani and drummer Kenny Aronoff.

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May 19, Superstar Theater Four-time Grammy-winning artists Boyz II Men headline at Resorts on Saturday, May 19, at 9pm.

Tickets are $45 and $55. Formed in 1988 in Philadelphia, Boyz II Men’s clean-cut “retro nouveau” image, synchronized dance routines, and polished stage act were key to their rapid rise to stardom. Between 1992 and 1997, Boyz II Men recorded five No. 1 pop hits, 12 Top-10 R&B singles, and sold more than 60 million records worldwide.

‘Believe — Divas in a Man’s World’

Ongoing, Screening Room Tickets are $25 and the showtimes are Thurs. 9pm; Fri., Sat. 10pm; Sun. 9pm, Mon., Tues. 8pm. Believe — Divas In A Man’s World features six of the world’s finest celebrity and female impersonators. The show just celebrated its one year anniversary.

T-Fox: The House Party

May 16-July 12, Superstar Theater T-Fox, the popular lounge entertainer from Las Vegas who has been a regular at Resorts’ 25 Hours Bar, will now present a show in

the Superstar Theater. The T-Fox House Party takes place May 16 at 3:30 and 8pm and Thurs., May 17 at 3:30pm. The show continues through July 12 on Tues. 8pm, Wed. 3 and 8pm and Thurs., 8pm. Tickets are $25.

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Tickets are $75.

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May 27, Tropicana Showroom One of the most popular duos in country music, Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry headline at the Tropicana Showroom on Sunday, May 27, 8pm. Tickets are $45, $65 and $75. The numerous hits of the duo include “Lonely and Gone,” “She Couldn’t Change Me,” “My Town,” “Gone,” “Something to Be Proud Of” and “Back When I Knew It All.” The duo’s latest album is 2011’s Rebels on the Run.

Stephen Sorrentino: ‘Voices in My Head’

May 19, Ovation Hall The Black Keys play Revel on Saturday, May 19, 8pm. Tickets are $75, $105 and $175. The rockers are currently on tour in support of their fine recent release Black Camino. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s latest album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200. (See story p. 38)

Now-June 22, Tropicana Showroom Musical comedian and impressionist Stephen Sorrentino has returned to Atlantic City in his critically acclaimed show, Voices In My Head, for a three-month exclusive engagement, now to June 22. Showtimes are Mon., Tues. 3:30 and 8pm; Fri., Sat. 9pm and Sun. 7pm. Tickets are $25.25. Voices In My Head features showgirls, dancers, extravagant costumes and Sorrentino’s musical impressions from Frankie Valli and Lady Gaga to Cher and the stars of Motown.

Beyoncé

Comedy Stop Café & Cabaret

Black Keys

May 25-28, Ovation Hall Beyoncé, in her first musical performance since having a baby, will kick off the official opening of Revel’s Ovation Hall with four performances Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-28, 9pm.

Tickets are $95, $175, $275, $375 and $495.

Tropicana

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KC & The Sunshine Band

The Comedy Stop is a 300-seat venue in The Quarter at Tropicana featuring three comedians nightly. Showtimes are Sun.Thurs. at 9pm ($25); Fri. ($27) and Sat. ($29) at 9 & 11:15pm. Appearing now to May 20 are Christine Stedman, Kevin Downey, Jr. and Gary Delena. On tap May 21-27 are Karen Rontowski, Jim Lauletta and Tommy Blaze. Scheduled May 28-June 3 are Laurence Mullaney, Drew Thomas and Jay. Black Kozak the Magician appears daily at 6:15pm ($25), with a dinner show package (5:30pm) for $35.

May 19, Tropicana Showroom With a primary interest in making people happy with their party music, KC & The Sunshine Band were at the forefront of the disco revolution, pushing rock toward a percussive and dance-oriented direction. The band headlines at the Trop on Saturday, May 19, 9pm. Tickets range from $25 to $75.

IMAX Theatre

Laff Mob Comedy Show

Casino Resort

May 26, Tropicana Showroom Enjoy a quartet of comedians when the Laff Mob, starring Rudy Rush, Roz G, Mark Viera and Red Grant arrives at the Trop for a night of laughter on Saturday, May 26, 9pm. Tickets are $25. Laff Mobb is a collection of today’s hottest rising stars, comedians whose comedic talents exhibit the same “it” factor as the superstar comedians/actors (ie. Bernie Mac, Chris Tucker, Monique, Paul Reiser, Mike Epps and Dave Chappelle) who preceded them in the eyes of proven “starmakers” Arthur Spivak and Bob Sumner.

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

May 26, Grand Exhibition Center Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes headline at the Trop on Saturday, May 26, 8pm. Tickets are $25.25. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were formed in 1974 by singer John Lyon and guitarist-songwriter “Miami” Steve Van Zant. Van Zant left a few years later to join Southside’s friend, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, but he continued to direct the Jukes, managing them, writing their songs and producing their popular albums. The group’s hits inculde “We’re Having a Party” and “I Don’t Want to Go Home.”

Now showing: Dark Shadows (PG13) 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:45; To the Arctic 3D 11, 12:15, 1:30 ($12.50).

Trump Taj Mahal Tickets: Ticketmaster, 1-800-736-1420; or the Taj box office. For more info, call 449-5150

Kevin Hart

May 25, May 27, Mark G. Etess Arena Actor and comedian Kevin Hart headlines at the Trump Taj Mahal’s Mark G. Etess arena on Friday, May 25 and Sunday, May 27 at 7 & 11pm each night. Tickets range from $49.50 to $150. Originally from Philly, Hart is currently starring in the hit film Think Like A Man.

ZZ Top, Gretchen Wilson, 3 Doors Down

May 26, Mark G. Etess Arena ZZ Top headlines the Gang of Outlaws Tour, which also features country music bad girl Gretchen Wilson and 3 Doors Down, in a performance at the Trump Taj Mahal on Saturday, May 26, 7:30pm. Tickets range from $60-$150 plus taxes and fees. The bearded duo of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard has scored countless hits, including several from 1983’s Eliminator, including “Legs,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “TV Dinners.” Gretchen Wilson scored a major hit with “Redneck Woman” and the hits of 3 Doors Down include “Kryptonite” and “It’s Not My Time.” n

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Nameless Few Fri. 9pm1am Mile High Club Sat. 9pm1am

The Replicants Sat. 2-6pm DJ Xtina Sat. 3-8pm DJ Ed Smooth Sat. 8pm3am Crazy in Stereo Sat. 7-11pm Generation Next Sun. 2-6pm DJ Alisha Monique Sun. 3-8pm Industry Night w/DJs Sun 8pm-3am

>>bally’s

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>21 bar at dusk

>blue Martini

>gypsy bar

DJ Do-Work Thurs.

DJs Fri. Scream Sat.

Entertainment for week of May 17-23 Call 1-800-736-1420 or visit ticketmaster.com for all casino show tickets (except Borgata, see below).

atlantic club 347-7111 bally’s 340-2000 boardwalk hall 348-7000 borgata 1-866-my-BORGaTa, Tickets: 1-800-298-4200 caesars 1-800-677-SHOW golden nugget 1-866-746-5336 harrah’s resort 441-5000 resorts 344-6000 revel 1-855-348-0500 showboat/ house oF blues 1-800-621-0200 tropicana 340-4020 truMp plaza 441-6000 truMp taj Mahal 449-1000

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Seven Stone Fri. 9pm-1am DJ Bryan B Fri. 10pm-4am 2twenty2 Sat. 9pm-1am DJ Redline Sat. 10pm-4am

>lobby bar Beth Tinnon Duo Sat. 10pm-2am

>Mountain bar DJ Nicky D Fri. 9pm-3am Shorty the Sheriff Fri.-Sat. 10pm-2am Vixens Fri.-Sat. 10pm-2am DJ Mike Ficca Sat. 9pm3am

>saMMy’s beach bar DJ Sonatra Fri. 3-8pm Crushing Day Fri. 8pmmid.

DJ Q BALL Fri. 8pm-3am

Modern Bliss Thurs. 10pm1:30am Big Bang Baby Fri. 7pm10:30pm Gypsy Wisdom Fri. 11pm2:30am Trippin’ Carla Sat. 7pm10:30pm LauraLea & Tripp Fabulous 11pm-2:30am 3AM Sun. 8:30pm-mid.

Eric & Coop Wed. 9pm12:30am

DJ Eric Cubeechee, Doug Grayson Fri. 10pm Roger Sanchez w/PS-1 Mon. 10pm

>dusk Global Fridays w/DJ Royale 10pm DJ Sat-One Sat. 10pm Dusk Tuesdays w/Sat-One 10pm

>toga bar VJ Ernesto DeSiro Fri. 10pm-3am Toga Dancers Fri.-Sat. 10pm-2am DJ Patrice McBride Sat. 10pm-3am

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Rock-It! Scientists, DJ D.L. Sat. 10pm MIXX Sundays w/OB-One, Paul Castro 10pm

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Pop Roxx Fri. 7-11pm Technical V Sat. 7-11pm Karma Sun. 2-6pm

>rush lounge Karma Thurs. 8pm Jim Shaw Fri. 6pm

Juicy Fri. 10pm Richie Balin Sat. 6pm DC Duo Sat. 10pm Doug Jennings Sun. 8pm Beth Tinnon Mon. 8pm French Vanilla Tues. 8pm Slamm Wed. 8pm

>live bar Benderz Fri. 10pm Element K Sat. 10pm

>>harrah’s resort >eden lounge Strawberry Fields (Beatles tribute) Thurs. 9pm-mid.

DJs Fri., Sat. 8pm-3am Brian Kirk and the Jerks Fri. 8:15pm-11:35pm Generation Next Fri. mid.3am Secret Service Sat. 8:15pm-11:35pm Danger Mouse Sat. mid.3am Lefty Lucy Sun. 9pm-mid.

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>the pool DJ Vito G & 10 Supreme Fri. 10pm Breathe Carolina, Eric Forbes, DJ Vito G Sat. 10pm

Sindustry w/DJ Vito G, DJ Jason E Wed. 10pm

>xhibition bar VJ Ed Smooth Thurs. 10pm3am DJ Vida Venture Fri. 10pm5am DJ April, DJ Xtina Sat. 10pm-5am DJ Kay Jay Wed. 10pm-3am

>>resorts >night Fever dance club DJ Sojo, Sensational Soul Cruisers Fri. 9pm DJ Dramadik Sat. 9pm

>piano bar Matthew Kenworthy Fri., Sat. 9pm-1am Bob Egan Mon. 7-11pm

>pro bar DJ Mr. Hollywood Thurs.

10pm DJ Maestro Zathan Radix Fri. 11pm DJ Quinn Sat. 11pm Sunday Karaoke 8pm DJ Will Smith Sun. mid.

>25 hours bar Blanche Wed.-Sat. 4-9:40pm Juicy Fri., Sat. 10pm-2am

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Route 9 Sat. 10pm-2am Tony Malandro Trio Sun., mon. 8pm-mid.

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>Whiskey Bar Kelly LaVigna Fri. 9pm1am Brandon Tomasello Sat. 9pm-1am

>>revel >royal Jelly Burlesque DJs, Burlesque Dancers Thurs.-Sun. 10pm After Hours Show Fri., Sat. 2am

>The social DJs Thurs.-Sun. 5pm-4pm Split Decision Thurs. 9pmmid.

Lima Bean Riot Fri. 8pm Lost in Paris Fri. 11:45pm Crobot Sat. 8pm Please Please Me Sat. 11:45pm Matt Santry Sun. 9pm-mid.

>>shoWBoaT/ house of Blues >ParTy PiT DJ Sonatra Fri. 9pm-4am

2twenty2 Fri. 10pm-2am Dancers Fri.-Sat. 10pm2am DJ Aiden Scott Sat. 8pm4am Steamroller Picnic Sat. 10pm-2am

>foundaTion room From Russia With Love w/DJs Ahmed, Vitali Sat. 10pm-6am Ocean Terrace w/DJ Yan & guest Sat.

>>TroPicana >anThem Grand Opening Weekend w/DJ B Easy, Live Beats, Wyked Kyss Fri, Sat.

>Boogie nighTs Moonwalk Party w/ Moonwalk Contest, MJ impersonator Fri. 9pm KC & the Sunshine Band After Party Sat.

>Providence DJ Goldfinger Thurs.

DJ Finesse Fri. DJ Mauricio Sat.

>Tango’s DJ Ralph D’Amelio Thurs.

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The One Ups Fri. 7-10:40pm DJ Ralph D’Amelio Fri. 11pm-2:40am Jynx Sat. 3-6:40pm Johnny & Sherena Sat. 7pm-10:40pm DJ Ralph D’Amelio Sat. 11pm-2:40am

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Jade Orchid Asian Bistro

Blossoming Orchid

Where: 5200 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor Hours: Open till 10pm every day but Thursday.

Phone: 428-6908 Web: jadeorchidnj.com

Serving an ample selection of specialized fare, Jade Orchid Asian Bistro is part of an expanding, eclectic Ventnor restaurant scene. By Frank Gabriel

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HEF MICHAEL LEUNG IS A PRETTY unassuming guy.

So much so that during the initial phase of our recent interview, he neglected to mention five years spent training under a Master Dim Sum chef in China during his twenties. Leung, the partner/operator — along with friend Linda Deblaeri — of Ventnor’s Jade Orchid Asian Bistro, has been in business at the Ventnor Avenue location for almost three years.

Previously, he ran China Dumpling, described as a fairly standard Chinesestyle restaurant, and briefly, an Americanthemed eatery called BYO Grill.

But it was up to his friend and general manager Ryan Chin to inform us of Leung’s formal background. Dim Sum is a sort of Asian cross between brunch and tapas.

Servers typically roll carts filled with various delicacies — especially various steamed dumplings in bamboo baskets — out to hordes of voracious diners.

It’s high-volume, higher-pressure work, evidenced by an episode of Bravo’s Top Chef All Stars, whose challenge was to take over a popular New York City Chinatown Dim Sum operation for a day.

Perhaps never before in the history of the program have the chef-testants been so thoroughly and completely discombobulated. One patron is even overheard hissing out “Caucasian Dim Sum” while sampling disappointing cuisine.

And while Dim Sum remains only a portion of Jade Orchid’s lengthy menu, it serves as a clear declaration of Leung’s very special repertoire of talent.

During our visit, we tested one of those

Salt and Pepper Calamari items, shrimp and chive dumplings.

Portioned generously with three golf-ball size purses of delicate seafood combined with sharp, oniony herb, this delectable plate is also a real value, priced at only $6.

Most astonishing was the pastry itself.

Smooth and translucent, these bore all the marks of having been formed by a skilled craftsman.

Since transitioning to the new concept, Leung has also added a chef’s tasting section to his bill of fare. This is planned as a rotating offering, changing monthly or with seasonality. Chin told us about two items to expect within the next few weeks: shrimp with ginger scallion sauce and mixed vegetables, and house special chow

fun — rice noodles blended with shrimp, scallops, calamari, beef, roast pork, carrots, scallions, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts.

Leung’s personal journey began with his birth in Queens, N.Y., and childhood in Monmouth County. He went on to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America in 2000, then served posts at a prestigious Palm Beach hotel, The Breakers and another restaurant in nearby Boynton Beach, Florida.

Arriving locally, he quickly rose to become Asian Chef du Cuisine at Bally’s Hotel Casino from 2007-’09. The real irony here is that he and Chin, both born in Queens and raised in Monmouth County

only a few miles from each other, had never met prior to Leung’s landing at China Dumpling.

These days they are busily occupied repositioning Jade Orchid in a rapidly morphing Ventnor dining scene. Simply put, for our money Ventnor has become the new Margate. Which is to say that daring, globetrotting little eateries like this now seem to be popping up virtually everywhere in this middle Downbeach community.

Asked about his favorite items, Chin points to the Vietnamese lemongrass steak, which he says eats more like a traditional steak entrée than an Asian beef stir fry.

The kick is provided by the unique tang of lemongrass, an ingredient particularly prevalent in southeastern Asian circles.

Fresh roast duck, made in limited quantities daily, is another of the house’s very best plates, according to both Leung and Chin.

The results are beginning to show. Leung says “We’ve been attracting a younger clientele” and “I just didn’t want to be a [typical] Chinese restaurant.”

He adds that weekly seafood specials will begin by the end of May. Expect him to feature fare like whole black sea bass, Key West snapper and yellowtail.

Another element differentiating Jade Orchid: house-made desserts like a vanilla custard bun, red bean and lychee ice creams. And in a cool nod to our regional food identity, they plan to soon provide lychee and mint cotton candy on weekends.

Definitely not your typical Chinese restaurant. ■

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Cantonese food.

For casino restaurants and independent establishments located within casino properties, including restaurants located inside The Quarter at the Tropicana and at The Pier Shops at Caesars, see Casino Dining listings at the end of this section. For more listings, visit acweekly. com.

St. James Pl. at the Boardwalk. 3449063. theirishpub.com. Open 24 hours with full menu served anytime. Dinner specials $7.50, lunch specials $3.

Angelo’s Fairmount Tavern

2300 Fairmount Ave. 344-2439. angelosfairmounttavern.com. An A.C. institution, Angelo’s Italian fare has flourished for three generations.

Angeloni’s II Restaurant

2400 Arctic Ave. 344-7875. angelonis. com. Fine Italian cuisine and wine selection.

Atlantic City Bar & Grill

1219 Pacific Ave. (Corner of S.Carolina & Pacific). 348-8080. atlanticcitybar. com. Lobster, pizza, BBQ baby back ribs and more.

Back Bay Ale House

800 N. New Hampshire Ave., Gardner’s Basin. 449-0006. backbayalehouse. com. Casual waterfront dining with stunning bay views. Open daily from 11am for lunch and dinner. Free parking.

Café 2825

2825 Atlantic Ave. (at Brighton Ave.).

344-6913. cafe2825.com. Regional Italian fare with full bar.

Chelsea Prime

111 S. Chelsea Ave. (Inside Chelsea hotel). thechelsea-ac.com. 348-2200.

A steakhouse in the setting of a 1940s supper club. Indoor and outdoor seating and a cocktail lounge with bar and entertainment.

Chelsea Pub

8 S. Morris Ave. 428-4545. Popular local hangout, open 24/7. Mon.-Fri. Happy hour 11:30am-1pm, 4-6pm.

Diving Horse Cabaret & Steakhouse

Dock’s Oyster House

2405 Atlantic Ave. 345-0092. docksoysterhouse.com. Offering fine steaks and seafood.

Ducktown Tavern

2400 Atlantic Ave. 449-1212. ducktowntavernac.com. Open 24/7.

Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night dining.

El Charro!

2430 Fairmount Ave. 344-2900.

Authentic Mexican restaurant serving lunch and dinner.

Gilchrist’s Restaurant

804 North Rhode Island Ave. (Gardner’s Basin). 345-8278. Famed family diner formerly located on Maryland Avenue in A.C., and offshore in Galloway.

Girasole Ristorante

3108 Pacific Ave. 345-5554. girasoleac. com. Serving Mediterranean Italian cuisine daily.

Imperial Inn

201 Melrose Ave. 350-6800. kelseyandkim.com. Classic southern soul food with a twist, including fried chicken and waffles. Open daily 7am10pm; BYOB/cash only.

Knife & Fork

3600 Atlantic Ave. (Corner of Atlantic and Pacific Aves). 344-1133. knifeandforkinn.com. Historic landmark restaurant with seafood and steaks prepared on a wood-fired grill.

Little Saigon

2801 Arctic Ave. 347-9119. Authentic Vietnamese and vegetarian cuisine.

Longhorn Steak House

2108 Atlantic Ave. 344-2050. longhornsteakhouse.com. Serving lunch and dinner. 11:30am-10pm weekdays, till 11pm weekends.

Los Amigos

1926 Atlantic Ave. 344-2293. atlanticcity.losamigosrest.com. Mexican food, seafood and prime steaks.

Tun Tavern

2 Convention blvd. 347-7800. tuntavern.com. A.C.’s first steakhouse and brewery, now serving lunch, dinner and late night snacks. Microbrews.

West End Grille

672 N. Trenton ave. 441-9100. westendgrilleac.com. Open from 4pm daily. New home of the A.C. Frenchfried lobstertail. Appetizers and sandwiches, chips, seafood and steaks.

White House Sub Shop

2308 Arctic Ave. 345-8599. A.C.’s legendary sub shop.

Wine Down Restaurant

151 S. New York Ave. 350-6349.

Banquet facilities. Breakfast, lunch, dinner Tues.-Thurs. 7-11pm; Fri.-Sat., 7pm-mid.

The Wonder Bar

3701 Sunset Avenue (at the Albany Ave. bridge). 344-8888. wonderbarac.com.

Lunch served from 11am and dinner served nightly in the Sunset Room from 5-10pm.

BRIGANTINE Andre’s Italian Restaurant

Melaka Restaurant

1312 W. Brigantine Ave. 266-1124.

Serving pizza, subs, steaks, Italian dinners, grilled seafood, cappuccino and desserts. Take-out, eat-in and delivery.

Open 10:30am-10pm daily.

The Melting Pot

Cellar 32

28 S. Tennessee Ave. 344-8928.

Malaysian and Chinese cuisine.

2112 Atlantic Ave. 441-1100. meltingpot.com/atlantic-city. Fondue restaurant with romantic dining experience.

Mexico Restaurant

3810 Ventnor Ave. 344-0366. Cocktail lounge serving authentic Mexican food & beer.

Old Waterway Inn

1660 Riverside Dr. 347-1793. oldwaterwayinn.com. Live music Sat. & Sun. Happy Hour Monday-Friday 5pm-7pm.

3119 Revere Blvd. (located at corner of 32nd and Revere). 264-9463. thecellar32.com. Entree and tapas style restaurant, bar and package goods store.

Open daily at 10am.

Scales Grill & Deck Bar

800 N. New Hampshire Ave. (Gardner’s Basin). 345-8222. scalesgrill.com.

Casual waterfront dining. Lunch, dinner and private functions. Specialty cocktails and frozen drinks. Free parking. Open daily at 11am.

Teplitzky’s

111 S. Chelsea Ave. (Inside Chelsea hotel). 428-4550. thechelsea-ac.com.

Retro-style diner with cocktail lounge and coffee shop.

Tommy’s Seaside Grill & Pizza

1523 Boardwalk. 347-7194. tommysseasidegrillandpizza.com. Pizza, subs, wraps, entrees. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Good food, great atmosphere, friendly service and affordable prices.

3 Course Prix Fixe Menu Appetizer • Entree • Dessert (Sun, - Thurs. Served Open to Close)

609.646.1855 6629 Black Horse Pike Egg Harbor Township NJ 08234 www.touchofitaly.net

Live Music Tues. - Sat. Open Mon - Sat. 4pm - 10:30pm Sun. 2pm - 10pm

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3400 Brigantine Blvd. 266-2808.

Northern and Southern Italian cuisine.

Macedonian Grill

2020 Atlantic Ave. 344-5833. ruthschris-atlanticcity.com. Corn-fed USDA Prime Midwest beef, specialty chops, seafood, award-winning wine list.

23.50 - 3 Courses

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L’Aragosta Ristorante

Pic A Lilli Pub

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse

(Menu items only)

4208 Harbor Beach Blvd. 266-3100. goochiebrothers.com. Italian cuisine and pizzeria.

The Links Bar & Grille

231 S. Tennessee Ave. 344-1113. picalilliac.com. Open 24/7. Full menu.

Serving lunch & dinner daily.

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Goochie Brothers

Pho Hoa Cali

3808 Ventnor Ave. 340-0063.

Authentic Vietnamese noodle house.

Monday - Friday 4pm - 6pm

1075 North Shore Dr. 266-1388. brigantinegolf.com. Beautiful views of golf course, casual ambiance.

3015 Brigantine Blvd. (at 31st St.).

264-8801. macedoniangrill.com.

Specializing in Mediterranean and American cuisine for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Mad Dog Morgan’s

3004 West Brigantine Ave. 266-6200. maddogmorgans.com. Home of Mad Dog’s famous cheesesteak.

Yuki Hana

3628 Brigantine Blvd. 266-7608. yukihanabrigantine.com. Japanese/ Chinese restaurant with a full sushi bar.

DOWNBEACH Ventnor, Margate & Longport Aroma Bistro

6414 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 8224111. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner under strict Kosher supervision. Open Sun.-Thurs., 8am-9pm, Fri., 8am-3pm; and Sat., 1/2-hour

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300 Oriental Ave. (Corner of Oriental and Vermont St.). 344-8669. tonybaloneys.com. Pizzas, subs, wraps, calzones and more. Mon.-Thurs.

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eclectic menu highlights seafood entrees.

Malelani Café

5205 Atlantic Ave., Ventnor. 822-5007. malelani.com.

106 Benson Ave., Margate. 822-0140. venturasgreenhouse.com. Lunch & dinner specials and late-night fare.

5204 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 8227200. bubbiesbistro.com. Kosher Italian & mediterranean homemade food.

Matteo’s Beach Bay Café

Yama Fusion Japanese

Cleo’s Fish Palace

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after Sabbath is over until midnight.

Barrels

9 S. Granville Ave., Margate. 8234400. barrelsfoods.com. Italian food.

Also in Linwood.

Bubbies Bistro

7307 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 8225858. cleosfish.com. A large variety of prepared seafood and dinner platters.

Catering available.

Dino’s Subs & Pizza

8016 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 8226602 or 822-0670. Open daily, 7-11:30am. Breakfast entrees, sandwiches and subs. Party trays for all occasions. Pick-up, eat-in and delivery.

Downbeach Deli

8 S. Essex Ave., Margate. 823-7310. downbeachdeli.net. Serving up a huge selection of breakfast, lunch and dinner. Open daily, 8am-7:30pm.

Euro Gourmet Cafe and The Gelato Factory

6525 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 4876525. Italian ice and gelato made on premises. Also featuring breakfast, lunch & dinner specialties. Delivery.

Fedeli’s Italian Restaurant

9403 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 8221293. Home of authentic homecooked Italian cuisine and two-forone specials.

Fisch Kitchen

8 South Essex St., Margate. 823-5332.

Seafood restaurant.

Hannah G’s

7310 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 8231466. hannahgs.com. Open in the spring.

Isabella’s

7801 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 8236700. Casual upscale dining daily from 5pm. Free delivery in margate.

9210 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 8224759. miyakomargate.com. Authentic Japanese cuisine.

Red Room Café

141 N. Dorset Ave.,Ventnor. 822-1067. redroomcafeattheshore.com. Pizzas and Italian specialties.

Sofia

9314 Amherst Ave., Margate. 8229111. sofiaofmargate.com. Authentic mediterranean and Continental cuisine.

Sophie’s Margate Café

8017 Winchester Ave., Margate. 8221610. Offers a wide selection of pancakes. Kids’ menu available.

South End Pizza

Ventura’s Greenhouse

5305 Atlantic Ave., Ventnor. 822-8007.

Japanese and Thai specialties. Eat in, take out and delivery. Vegetarian friendly. Specializing in seafood, beef and chicken with daily lunch and dinner specials.

1 N. Shore Rd. (off White Horse Pike), Absecon. 641-2323. Open 7 days from 10am. Extensive menu including homemade lunch and dinner specials daily.

Chickie’s and Pete’s

Bombay Indian Restaurant

Chido Burrito

Brick House Pub & Grille

2405 New Rd., Northfield. 646-7565.

Traditional and contemporary Italian cuisine.

assagio

500 W. White Horse Pike, Pomona.

965-3303. Italian cuisine. (Formerly Tre Figlio).

athenian Garden

619 New York Rd. (Route 9), Galloway Twp. 748-1818. athenian-garden. com. Authentic Greek cuisine.

Steve & Cookie’s By the Bay

Barrels

9300 Amherst Ave., Margate. 8227535. tomatoesmargate.com. Varied

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Heather Croft Sq., Northfield. 6467799. atlanticcitysubshops.com. Eatin, take-out, delivery and party trays.

Rt. 9, Central Square, Linwood. 9269900. barrelsfoods.com. Italian food.

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Bay avenue Sushi

718 Bay Ave., Somers Point. 6018822. bayavesushi.com. Sushi, sashimi and teriyaki dishes. Entrees

743 White Horse Pike, Galloway. 9654433. Neighborhood sports bar serving American dishes.

Caroline’s By the Bay

Clancy’s by the Bay

Cousin Mario’s

5401 Hardin Hwy. (Route 40), Mays Landing. 625-2523. cousinmarios. com. Pizza and Italian specialties.

Happy-hour noon-7pm weekdays.

1413 Boulevard, State Hwy 50, Mays Landing, 625- 2722. Award-winning blue-claw crabs year-round and all you can eat weekday crab specials.

Open mon.-Thurs. from 4pm, Fri.Sun. from noon. Full bar with seven beers on tap.

Cavallino nero

4760 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing.

625-0144. cavallinonero.net. Lunch, dinner and late-night. Italian specialties.

Crab Trap

Sunrise Plaza, 68 W. Jimmie Leeds Rd., Galloway Twp. 404-1700. celinascafes. com. Open for breakfast, lunch and

2 Broadway, Somers Pt. 927-7377. thecrabtrap.com. Serving fresh seafood, soups, steaks, desserts and more.

Open daily from 11am-10pm Sun.-

Fred & Ethel’s Lantern Light Tavern

Towne of Historic Smithville, Rt. 9 & Moss Mill Rd., Smithville. 652-0544.

Family restaurant, casual dining.

Fuji

210 New Rd., No. 4, Linwood Green Plaza, Linwood. 926-8861.

Japanese cuisine specializing in sushi and steak.

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Lucy’s Bella Luna Restaurant

375 S. Main St., Pleasantville. 4848057. Authentic mexican.

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7800 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 4878052. liangsimperialeast.com .Open daily 11:30am-9:30pm. modern Chinese cuisine. Daily lunch and dinner specials. Free parking.

El Rancho

Everyday 4 - 7pm - Apps $4 - $7

9407 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 8221789. johnnyscafeventnor.com. Hearty breakfasts, healthy lunches and classic dinner cuisine with an Asian flair.

Open year round from 7am-9pm, weekends till midnight.

Liang House Imperial East

6701 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 272-7721. eastbaycrab.com.

Specializing in all-you-can-eat crabs, early-bird menu.12 Entrees under $12 menu, over 60 entrees starting at $8.99 and daily specials.

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Johnny’s Café & Cocktails

9707 Amherst Ave., Margate. 4876001. lucianolambertimargate.com.

Open daily for lunch and dinner.

Happy hour daily 3-7pm with halfprice appetizers and reduced drink prices at the bar only.

East Bay Crab & Grill

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6410 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 8222266. Casual family atmosphere specializing in Kosher mediterranean cuisine, steaks, lamb, chicken and fish.

Large party reservations suggested.

Lamberti

325 E. Jimmy Leeds Rd., Galloway.

652-2210. dublineririshpubandgrill. com. Authentic Irish cuisine.

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Jerusalem Glatt Kosher Restaurant

6501 Ventnor Ave., Ventnor. 8226475. jo-jopizza.com. A family tradition since 1970.

Dubliner Irish Pub

101 E Maryland Ave. Somers Point.

927-6969. clancysbythebay.com.

Lunch and dinner seven days a week with wide variety of appetizers, salads, soups, sandwiches, entrees and desserts.

Crabby’s Suds & Seafood

450 Bay Ave., Somers Point. 9279007.

4 S. Portland Ave. Ventnor. 822-2477.

Traditional mexican restaurant. Serves breakfast entrees and remains open for dinner.

Jo Jo’s Frattoria & Pizzeria

443 Zion Rd., EHT. 788-8512.

Open daily for lunch & dinner till 10pm and Sat. till 11pm. Breakfast Fri.-Sun., 7-11am.

807 Tilton Rd., Northfield. 484-1480. chidoburrito.com. Check out surf videos, listen to music and kick back for awhile.

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6055 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 272-1930. chickiesandpetes.com. Sports-themed bar/restaurant famous for its wings, crabs and Philly-style sandwiches.

4450 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing.

837-2763. brickhousenj.com. Open 7 days from 11am-2am. Newly opened. Serving subs, burgers, sandwiches, salads, soups ‘n sides. Drink specials daily, several craft beers on tap.

Celina’s Mulberry Market & Grille

Thurs., 11am-11pm Fri. & Sat. Live entertainment nightly.

800 Shore Rd., Somers Pt. 927-3663. charliesbar.com. Popular buffalo wings. No credit cards. Over 15 TVs for sporting events.

6105 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 2728808. berkshiregrillnj.com. Seafood and steaks.

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Charlie’s Bar & Restaurant

English Creek Shopping Ctr., Rt. 40 & English Creek Rd., EHT. 646-4445.

Authentic Indian dining experience.

9702 Ventnor Ave., Margate. 8225402. Open daily serving pizza, subs, sandwiches, salads, pastas and more.

Take-out and delivery.

9700 Amherst Ave., Margate. 8231163. steveandcookies.com. menu highlights fresh seafood, produce and prime cuts of meat.

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Harbor Village Square, EHT. Ocean Heights Ave. & Zion Road, Bargaintown. 653-2112. gaspares. com. Casual. Serving lunch, dinner, take-out and delivery. Cocktails, beer and wine.

Gilchrist Offshore

734 W. White Horse Pike, Cologne.

965-3433. Great breakfast and lunch specials.

Ginza Japanese Restaurant

6708 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 3832588. (Ginza II located in English Creek Shopping Ctr., EHT. 383-3999).

Hibachi steakhouse and sushi bar.

Goodfellows, W.L.

310 E. White Horse Pike, Galloway.

652-1942. wlgoodfellows.com. Home of the french fried lobster tail, burgers, steaks, seafood, and homemade Italian specialties.

Gourmet Italian Cuisine

324 S. Pitney Rd, Galloway, NJ. 6521398. www.gourmetitaliancuisine. com.

Gregory’s Restaurant

900 Shore Rd., Somers Pt. 927-6665. gregorysbar.com. Serving lunch & dinner until 1am. Food and beverage specials.

Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet

4450 E. Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing. 625-0888. hibachibuffetusa. com. asian buffet with meats, veggies, sushi, soups, and more.

Hu Tieu

Asian Mall, Pleasantville Shopping Center, 700 Black Horse Pike,

Pleasantville. 646-8977. Vietnamese cuisine.

The Inn at Sugar Hill

The Nizam’s

daily 11am-10pm.

La Hacienda

Rt. 559, Mays Landing. 625-2226. innatsugarhill.com. Food and cocktails on the waterfront.

265 S. New York Rd. (Route 9), Galloway. 652-6050. lahaciendanj. com. Serving authentic mexican cuisine.

Irish Eyes Pub

La Pizzatega

446 St. Louis Ave., Egg Harbor City.

965-7878. irisheyespub.net (formerly McKee’s Irish Pub). Open for lunch and dinner.

JD’s Pub & Grille

45 S. New York Rd., Galloway Twp. 404-9000. Featuring classic pub fare plus a full dinner menu.

Joe’s Restaurant

Linwood Greene, Rt. 9, Linwood.

653-8442. lapizzatega.com. Serving seafood, veal pasta, steak, subs and salads.

Latz’s by the Bay

L801 Bay Avenue, Somers Point. 7888838. latzsbythebay.com. modern cuisine focusing on sustainability and organic ingredients.

131 Jordan Rd., (behind the Sunoco station off Laurel Dr./Garden State Parkway entrance), Somers Pt. 9274637. Lunch and dinner featuring Greek specialties.

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Johnny Rockets

1333 New Rd., Northfield. 646-8189. lukepalladino.com. Open 7 nights a week starting 5pm. Sunday brunch 11am-2pm. Takeout and delivery available, mon.-Fri. from 11am.

Hamilton Mall, Mays Landing. johnnyrockets.com. 1960s-themed classic burger joint and more.

Jo-Jo’s Italian Grille

6605 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 645-7655. murph’s crab cakes, steaks, prime rib, seafood and salad bar.

Luke Palladino Italian Cooking

Black Horse Pike & Main St., Pleasantville. 646-8332 and at 6106 Black Horse Pike, Egg Harbor Twp. 641-8332. jojositaliangrille.com.

Homemade Italian specialties.

Mama Mia’s Ristorante

Juliano’s Restaurant

Maplewood Inn

Oyster Creek Inn

41 N. Oyster Creek Rd., Leeds Point.

652-8565. oystercreekinnnj.com. Oldfashioned fresh seafood house with waterfront dining.

PJ’s 50 Pub & Grille

2301 Rt. 50, 1 Mile N. of Black Horse Pike (Rt. 322), Mays Landing. 6259600. Everything homemade from soups to desserts.

Rama Thai

3003 English Creek Ave. Egg Harbor Twp. (in English Creek Shopping Ctr.) 677-1004. ramathainj.com. Thai cuisine with reasonable prices.

Ram’s Head Inn

9 W. White Horse Pike, Galloway. 6521700. ramsheadinn.com. Fine dining.

Traditional american specialties with contemporary flair.

Renault Winery

72 N. Breman Ave, Egg Harbor City.

965-2111. RenaultWinery.com.

Open Fri, Sat. & Sun nights, and Sun. brunch 10am-2pm. Gourmet restaurant, resort, and golf.

com. Japanese cuisine w/ Japanese steak, seafood house and sushi bar.

Sam’s Bar & Grill

18 S. Main St., Pleasantville. 646-5128. samsbarandgrill.com.

Sandi Pointe

Clancy’s by the Sea

1244 Boardwalk, Ocean City. 3983344. clancysbythesea.com. Weekly specials, open year round. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Open evenings.

908 Shore Rd., Somers Point. 927-2759.

(Formerly Mac’s Restaurant). Seafood restaurant and bar with live music.

Cousin’s Restaurant

Smithville Inn

Deauville Inn

Rt. 9 & Moss Mill Rd., Smithville. 6527777. smithvilleinn.com Traditional area hotspot.

The Spot

Tilton Shopping Center, 331 Tilton Rd., Northfield. 568-6571. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner mon.Sat., 8am-8pm, Sun. 8am-2pm. Daily specials including fresh soups, salads, sandwiches and wraps. Free delivery.

Tailgaters Galloway Grille

337 White Horse Pike, Egg Harbor City. 804-9000. tailgatersnj.com.

Traditional american cuisine, daily homemade specials, burgers and wings. Sports bar.

Tap Room & Grille

Atlantic City Country Club, 1 Leo Fraser Dr., Northfield. 236-4465. Featuring Sunday brunch. Open Sun.-Thurs. lunch from 11am. Fri.& Sat. dinner from 5pm. Fri.-Sun. breakfast from 7am. Sun. brunch, 10am-2pm.

1st Street & Asbury Ave. , Ocean City. 399-9462. cousinsocnj.com.

Fine Italian cuisine and seafood.

201 Willard Rd., Strathmere. 2632080. deauvilleinn.com. Waterfront bar and dining.

Fuze Restaurant & Mirage Lounge

7888 Dune Dr., Avalon. 368-1919. fuzerestaurantandlounge.com.

Contemporary ambience serving fusion cuisine. Open Fri, Sat. & Sun nights.

Mama Mia’s Ristorante

2087 South Shore Rd., Seaville. 6249322. mamamiasnj.com. Brick oven pizzas and catering. Take-home ready cook dinner trays. also located in EHT.

Nonna’s Trattoria & Pizzeria

755 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, 8406440. nonnastrattoriapizzeria.com.

Offering pizza, pasta, seafood, beef, veal, stromboli, salads, sandwiches and more.

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Zion Rd. & Ocean Heights Ave., Egg Harbor Twp. 927-6363. julianospub. com. Sandwiches, salads, pizza, pasta and seafood.

Kelsey & Kim’s Soul Food

6105 W. Jersey Ave., EHT. 484-8877. mamamiasnj.com. Brick oven pizzas and catering. Take-home ready cook dinner trays. also located in Seaville.

6666 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 6778829. thenizams.com. Northern and Southern Indian food, including nan, tandori and vegetarian dishes. major credit cards accepted. Lunch buffett $9.95.

1470 White Horse Pike, Hammonton.

561-9621. joesmaplewood.com.

Italian specialties and “world’s best spaghetti.”

Sack O’ Subs

784 White Horse Pike, Absecon. 6466555. sackosubs.com. Hot and cold subs, homemade soups and salads.

A Touch of Italy

6629 Black Horse Pike, EHT. 646-1855. touchofitaly.net. Fine Italian cuisine and lounge. 3-4-5 Happy hour mon.Fri. 3:45-6pm, Sun. 2-5pm. $3 drafts, $4 house wines and well drinks, $5 tapas menu. Live music Tues.-Sat. 6-10pm.

Fuji Sakura OpenMount Days Year ’Round for & Dinner 1367 White Horse Pike, Absecon.

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52 N. Main St, Pleasantville. 484-8448. kelseyandkim.com. Classic southern style soul food with a twist. Hours:

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Commons shopping center), Mays Landing. 485-0071. sakurasteakhouse.

Ninth St & Atlantic Ave. 814-9500. periwinklesoceancity.com. Family restaurant with casual, seashore atmophere. Dinner served 3:30pm daily. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on weekends. Kids menu available.

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Red’s Jersey Mex Cafe

11th Street and Haven Ave., Ocean City.

399-2272. rojosjerseymex.com. Fine mexican cuisine. Open 10am-10pm daily.

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926 Asbury Ave., Ocean City. 5250460. sackosubs.com. Hot and cold subs, french fries, pizzas, homemade soups, salads and more.

955 Asbury Ave., Ocean City. 3911111. ScullysAsbury.com. Homemade food cooked to order.

Spadafora’s

932 Haven Ave., Ocean City. 3986703. spadaforaseafood.com. Seafood restaurant and market. an Ocean City institution for 30 years.

Sushi Ocean View

556 Sea Isle Blvd, #C, Ocean View. 6248886. sushi-oceanview.com. Japanese/ asian Fusion cuisine. mon.-Thurs.

11:30am-10pm, Fri.-Sat. 11:30am11pm, Sun. noon-10pm. Daily lunch and dinner specials.

701 4th St., Ocean City. 398-2700.

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Enjoy all your signature favorites; also the home of the Philadelphia Soft Pretzel Factory.

(Formerly the Hilton) cappuccino’s

Coffee and espresso bar plus pastry shop, soups and sandwiches. Open 24 hrs. Sun.-Thurs.; Fri.-Sat. 7am11pm.

the coffee Shop

Sun.-Thurs. 7am-10:30pm; Fri.-Sat. open 24 hours.

cornucopia buffet

Land and sea buffet features a variety of specialties. Cost: $18.50 plus tax.

Fri.-Sat. Noon-9pm; Sun. Noon-8pm.

bb’s burgers & beer

Fri. 5pm-1am; Sat. noon-1am; Sun. noon-10pm.

OnO chinese bistro and bar Friday & Saturday: 5:30-10pm; Happy Hour at bar 5-7pm.

Patsy’s italian trattoria

Patsy’s in New York was Frank Sinatra’s favorite restaurant. Hours: Fri.-Tues.: 5:30-10pm; Closed. Wed.Thurs. For reservations, call 340-7585.

Simon Ac Steak & Seafood

Contemporary American steakhouse by famed, celebrity chef Kerry Simon.

Wed.-Sun. 5:30-10pm. Happy Hour at bar 5-7pm.

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Renowned Atlantic City restaurateurs maureen Shay and Frank Dougherty open the doors to their newest venture. Harry’s Oyster Bar & Seafood features extensive raw bar and fresh seafood.

Johnny Rockets

340-0099. A retro ’50s-style Boardwalk restaurant. Breakfast served daily from 8-11am. Lunch and dinner served daily from 11am-1am Sun.-Thurs., 11am-3am Fri. & Sat.

nanking Restaurant

Featuring Chinese, Thai, and Indian cuisines. Open daily for lunch 11am3pm; dinner 5pm-mid. weekdays, to 1am weekends.

noodle Village

Offering an extensive selection of authentic Chinese and Vietnamese comfort foods.

Pickles Deli

New York style deli, open noon to 9pm.

the Reserve/Preview bar

Bally’s iconic culinary experience.

6ix: A bistro

American bistro. Breakfast served anytime.

340-2000 Arturo’s

Spa café

Enjoy a traditional Italian meal prepared with a contemporary, New York fare in the sophisticated setting of this award-winning trattoria.

Located in the Spa at Bally’s, offering health-conscious meals.

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Featuring Primo Pizza, Sack O’Subs.

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Brunch every Sunday at the Reserve, 10am–2 pm. $39.99 per person.

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All-you-can-eat, Western-style buffet. Hours: mon.–Thurs. lunch noon–3pm, dinner 3–9pm.; Fri.–Sun. noon-10pm. $21.99 (plus tax) daily for dinner; $16.99 (plus tax) lunch mon.-Thurs.

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Wild About Wings

French bistro-style cafe serves classic and contemporary American dishes.

Deep fried southern chicken. Open to mid. weekdays, until 4am Fri.-Sat.

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borgata buffet

Extensive buffet menu. Breakfast, $14.95 (plus tax), mon.-Sat. 8-11:15am; Lunch, $17.95 (plus tax), mon.-Fri. noon-2pm; Sat. noon-3pm; Dinner $28.95 (plus tax) mon.-Thurs.

4-8pm; Fri. 4-9pm; Sat. 4-10pm; Sun. 8am-3p for brunch; 4p-9p for dinner.

bread + butter

Griddled sandwiches served with an array of premiere beverages and desserts.

Fornelletto

Celebrated chef Stephan Kalt’s new restaurant offering traditional Southern Italian fare.

Gypsy bar

Fun, relaxing dining experience.

izakaya

A modern Japanese pub from michael Schulson.

n.O.W. (noodles of the World) Asian fusion.

Old Homestead Steak House

Domestically-raised, hand-massaged Kobe beef is the signature dish of this steakhouse.

Roma

Casual cafe with pizza, pasta, panini, fresh salads.

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Full of quick food options.

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Seafood, Veal, Pasta, Steak, Pizza, Subs, Salads

Buffet selections for all day dining.

Breakfast, Sat.-Sun. , 8-11:30am, $15.99 plus tax Total Rewards members. Lunch, Sat.-Thurs., 11:30am-4pm, $18.99, Total Rewards members. Dinner mon.Thurs., 4-8pm, $29.99, plus tax Total Rewards members . Fri.-Sat. 4-8pm (Buffet closes at 9pm Fri., 10pm Sat.) , $35.99 plus tax for Total Rewards members.

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Mia

348-4411, ext. 6000. Contemporary Italian/ mediterranean cuisine; Sunday Brunch, 10am-2pm.

Morton’s

449-1044. mortons.com. Steakhouse with an a la carte menu features steaks, fish and salads.

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Cafe open 24 hours with salads, sandwiches, baked goods.

The Pier Shops at Caesars: Buddakan

674-0100. Restaurant includes twilight sky or “opium den style” dining nooks.

The Continental

674-8300, continentalac.com. An “outdoor” patio bar with signature drinks & sunken fire-pit lounge as well as the large flower-shaped central dining pod, nicknamed the “Sammy Davis Room.”

Phillips Seafood

348-2273. Serving authentic Maryland-style seafood and worldfamous crab cakes. Lunch and dinner served seven days a week, featuring an open, expedition kitchen. Open Sun.-Thurs. 11:30am-10pm; Fri.-Sat. 11:30am-11pm.

Piazza di Giorgio

345-3100. Food Court with A Taste of Tuscany, South of the Border, Salad Sensations, Hot Off the Grille, and Udon Creations. Also a fresh fruit smoothie bar.

Souzai Sushi & Sake

348-4443. Souzai is a country-style Japanese restaurant. Intimate setting, sushi menu and unique sake cocktails.

golden nugget The Bayside Buffet

Buffet has all your traditional favorites.

Mon.-Thurs. ($16.99 plus tax.), or sample the lavish breakfast buffet from 8am -11:30am daily ($12.99 plus tax.). A Seafood buffet is featured every Fri., Sat., and Sun. during lunch and dinner ($25.99 plus tax.). Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8am-8pm; Fri.-Sun. 8am-9pm.

Chart House

Classic seafood house. Open TuesThurs. 4-10pm; Fri. 4-11pm; Sat. 12:30-11pm; Sun. 12:30-10pm; closed Monday. Reservations are recommended. Call 340-5030 or visit chart-house.com.

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Grotto

Classic Italian cuisine. Open Sun.Wed. 11am-10pm; Thurs.-Sat. 11am11pm (bar open to 2am).

Lillie’s Asian Cuisine

Located on the casino floor adjacent to the Asian gaming pit, offers Cantonese and Szechwan flavors with a Pan-Asian flair. Hours: Sun.-Thurs. noon-mid. ; Fri.,-Sat. noon-2am.

Michael Patrick’s Brasserie

Open 24/7. European style brasserie that serves an upscale menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, located directly off the atrium and casino.

The Poolside Café

Located on the 5th Floor, with a breathtaking view of the Atlantic City skyline. Enjoy light fare by the pool.

Vic & Anthony’s Steakhouse

The original Vic & Anthony’s in Houston is routinely voted one of America’s 10 best steakhouses with succulent beef, lobster and unique appetizers.

Harrah’s Resort 441-5000 Bill’s Bar and Burger

Classic burgers and more.

Bluepoint Bar

A raw-bar experience where fresh seafood, shellfish and a variety of martinis are the house specialties.

Club Cappuccino

Coffee bar. Fine gourmet coffees, cappuccino, espresso and teas accompanied by homemade pastries, cookies and brownies.

Corner Grille & Deli

Traditional deli favorites. Also has hot menu items.

Dos Caminos

Authentic Mexican delights including signature dishes like tacos, ceviche, and guacamole. Open Sun.-Thurs., 5pm-11pm; Fri.-Sat., 5pm-1am.

Reservations: 441-5575.

Luke Palladino at Harrah’s Resort

Italian restaurant using fresh, locally-sourced produce and gourmet ingredients from Italy. Open Mon.-Thurs., 5-9:30pm; Fri. 5-10pm; Sat. 5-10:30pm; Sun., 5-9pm.

Reservations: 441-5576.

McCormick & Schmick’s

More than 30 different varieties of fresh seafood featured on a menu that changes twice daily.

Sammy D’s

A retro coffee shop that gives modern and casual American cuisine a unique twist. Bar offers daily drink specials.

Open 24 hours Wed.-Sat., 7am-10pm Sun.-Tues.

The Steakhouse

Gourmet restaurant offers a raw-bar, roast prime rib, shrimp Wellington and more.

Taste of the Shore

Food emporium features Primo Pizza, Sack O’ Subs, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and Philly Soft Pretzel Factory.

Temptations Fine Chocolate & Coffee

Located on first level of Waterfront Tower. Open 7am-7pm Sun.-Thurs., until 2am on Fri. & Sat.

Waterfront Buffet

Extensive buffet items. Cost: $29.99(plus tax, $22.99 kids) for dinner daily; $23.99 (plus tax, $10.99, kids) for brunch. Hours: Mon. & Fri., 8:30am–noon brunch, 4–9pm dinner; Tues. & Wed., noon–9pm dinner; Thurs. 4–9pm dinner; Sat. 8:30am–noon brunch, 1–10pm dinner; Sun. 8:30am–1:30pm brunch, 2–9pm diner.

available for $44.95 per person.

Closed Mon.-Tues. Open Wed.-Sat. 6pm-11pm.

Casa Di Napoli

Eastwind Noodle Bar

Food Network star Chef Aaron Sanchez purveys delicious appetizers like citrus marinated steak tacos with Cotija cheese and roasted tomatillo salsa, and American classics like lobster macaroni & cheese, slow cooked ribs and buttermilk fried chicken.

Noodle bar open Sun.-Thurs. 1pm1am; Fri., Sat. 1pm-2am.

Gallagher’s Steakhouse

340-6555. The renowned New York City steakhouse located on Resorts’ dining level. Sun.-Thurs. 5-10pm; Fri.Sat. 5-11pm. Gallagher’s Burger Bar located across the hall.

Revel Amada

Iron Chef Jose Garces presents an authentic Andalusian tapas bar.

American Cut

Iron Chef Marc Forgione will pair his award-winning, modern and signature take on fine dining with the comforts of the new American steakhouse.

Azure by Allegretti

Brings together the flavors of Chef Allegretti’s culinary experiences. He pairs the flavors of his Italian heritage with his own French culinary pedigree to create a modern take on Riviera classics.

Central Michel Richard

Chef Richard’s latest version of his celebrated James Beard Award-winning restaurant, Central Michel Richard, offering such Central signature dishes as a lobster burger and 72-hour short rib.

Distrito Cantina

From Chef Jose Garces, is a festive margarita bar with a selection of 100 tequilas and modern Mexican street food from the Guapos take-out window. It’s a street truck set-up on the casino floor.

Lugo Caffé

An energetic brasserie offering a fresh take on modern Italian classics. Chef Stefano Chiaruga will serve up homemade pastas, Neapolitan-style brick oven pizza, mozzarella made fresh on-site, and meatballs.

Mussel Bar

Award-winning chef and master of Belgian cuisine, Robert Wiedmaier, will blend the comfort of a pub, live rock and roll, the energy of a sports bar, and commitment to culinary excellence to raise “eating at the bar” to a whole new level. A selection of over 150 Belgian and domestic beers will be perfect accompaniment.

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and toppings. Then the staff mixes them together on a marble slab. Dinein or take-out.

Foundation Room Restaurant

Abundant selection. Cost: $18.95 (plus tax) for breakfast and brunch Mon.–Fri. 8–11am; Sat. & Sun. 8am– 1pm. Dinner buffet for $24.95 per person. Hours: Sun.-Fri. 8am-3pm; dinner served 4-8pm; Sat. 8am-3pm; 4-9pm dinner.

Brick-oven pizza, classic Italian dishes.

Tapas style menu. Hours: Thurs.-Sat. 6-10pm. Reservations recommended; dress code is business casual.

French Quarter Buffet

Seafood Carnival Weekends featuring filet and lobster on Saturday nights.

Cost is Fri. $29.99; Sat., $35.99 and Sun. $29.99. Mon.-Thurs. 12-4pm lunch; $19.99 (plus tax) Mon.–Thurs. dinner 4-9pm, $25.99.

Johnny Rockets

348-0725. A retro ’50s-style restaurant featuring classic burgers and more. Hours: Sun.-Thurs., 8am-mid.; Fri.-Sat., 8am-2am.

Mansion Cafe

Hearth-baked biscuits, overstuffed sandwiches, hearty salads and more.

Royal Noodle House

Located next to the Fortune Gaming Pavilion on the casino floor; authentic Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese noodle, rice and dim-sum dishes.

Starbucks Coffee

Open. Mon.-Sun. 7am-mid.

Signature drinks, including lattes and other specialty coffee drinks and pastry selection.

Scarduzio’s Steak | Sushi | Lounge

Hours: 5:30pm-mid. Lounge: 5:30pm-2am. Restaurant open Wed.Sun. Certified USDA Prime steaks, sushi rolls and an extensive list of craft beers, wines and signature cocktails.

Tropicana 340-4000 il Verdi

Upscale gourmet Italian cuisine presented in an elegant ambiance.

FIN

Seafood restaurant, featuring locally grown food and wine. Has a sushi and raw bar. Hours: Wed.-Sun. 6-11pm.

Located on the casino level in the South Tower.

Golden Dynasty

Fiesta Buffet

Hooters

Max’s

Located on the sixth floor, this steakhouse features U.S.D.A. prime certified Angus beef and seafood selections. Open for dinner.

Rainforest Café

On the Boardwalk at Trump Plaza. 3455757. rainforestcafe.com. Burgers, steaks and seafood served amidst the sights and sounds of a tropical rainforest.

Food Court

Seafood, burgers and “nearly worldfamous” chicken wings served by the famous Hooters girls.

With Starbucks, Sbarro, Nathan’s Famous, Arthur Treacher’s, HäagenDazs, Auntie Anne’s Pretzels and Sarah’s Cookies.

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A Dam Good Sports Bar

347-7770. Catch your favorite game while eating a meal with everything from beef to seafood menu.

Carmine’s

572-9300. The renowned New York family-style Italian institution serves southern Italian appetizers, entrees and desserts prepared from the freshest quality ingredients in large portions.

Cuba Libre Restaurant & Rum Bar

348-6700. cubalibrerestaurant.com.

Classic and contemporary Cuban dishes. Brunch, dinner and late dining served daily.

The Palm

344-7256. thepalm.com. Known for its aged prime beef, monstrous Nova Scotia lobsters and outstanding American and Italian dishes.

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro

348-4600. Traditional Chinese cuisine, with innovative contemporary creations that demonstrate modern influences on the modern Asian palette.

Red Square

344-9100. Famed restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow’s vodka and caviar bar and restaurant recreates centuries of Russian history. The dining room, flanked with two ice columns, gives way to an ice-topped 32-foot bar.

Rí-Rá Irish Pub & Restaurant

348-8600. Authentic pubs were imported from Ireland and reassembled here. Pub fare and modern interpretations of classic Irish dishes.

449-1000 Dynasty

Cantonese/Chinese with many delicacies including authentic sushi bar.

Hard Rock Café

On the Boardwalk at Trump Taj Mahal.

441-0007. Casual American fare in a rock ’n’ roll atmosphere. Open 11ammid. daily (till 1am Fri.-Sat.).

Il Mulino New York

Offers two distinct, side-by-side dining experiences, the fine dining restaurant, Il Mulino New York and the more casual, newer concept, Trattoria Il Mulino.

Trattoria Il Mulino

Casual dining experience offers a lounge. Has an open kitchen with a pizza oven and a communal table.

Moon at Dynasty

Serving specialty cocktails, including the Sake-tini, along with sushi creations and fully cooked selections.

The Rim

A gourmet noodle bar right off the casino floor. Sit at the circular bar and watch chefs prepare your meal or dine at a private table.

Royal Albert’s Palace

On the Boardwalk at Trump Taj Mahal.

449-9200. Fine Indian cuisine.

Safari Steak House

Decorated in a rustic jungle theme, the steakhouse received the Gold award from the National Academy of Restaurant Sciences.

Sultan’s Feast

Buffet features black angus steaks grilled to order and more.

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Beriyo/Pretzel Time

This 24-hour dining experience offers updated casual fare.

Trump Plaza

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Chef Michel Richard’s take on classic breakfast favorites. Open Sat.-Sun. 8-11pm.

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Resorts 344-6000 Boardwalk Perks

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night fare. Open 24 hours daily.

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Open Mon.-Thurs. 12pm-6pm; Fri. 12pm-8pm; Sat. 12pm-9pm and Sun. 12pm-7pm. Cost: $18.95 lunch (noon-4pm) and $24.95 dinner (Crab legs available after 4pm Fri.-Sun.).

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From Chef Jose Garces, serves spirits and artfully crafted cocktails alongside classic American cuisine.

Showboat 343-4000 Canal Street Bread & Sandwich Co. Soup, overstuffed sandwiches, madeto-order pizza and desserts, 24/7.

Traditional Chinese cuisine, Cantonese specialties and exotic delicacies for which Chef Ping is well known.

Seaside Cafe

“Mom and Pop”-style deli featuring a variety of overstuffed sandwiches along with homemade soups.

Boardwalk Favorites

Classic Boardwalk treats including foot-long hot dogs, fresh fruit smoothies, soft pretzels, cotton candy, corn dogs, and pizza.

Corky’s Ribs & BBQ

Casual dining BBQ restaurant serving hickory-smoked pork, beef, chicken, BBQ ribs, sandwiches and salads.

Create-A-Cone

Patrons choose their favorite flavor

Quick stop for snacks and goodies.

An upscale dining experience in a casual atmosphere, features everything from steaks to seafood.

China Cafe & Sushi Chef

Boardwalk Terrace (overlooking the ocean). 572-0866. A fusion of unique Asian cuisine ranging from Cantonese to Japanese accompanied by an assortment of selections available at the Noodle and Sushi Bar.

Evo

2225 Boardwalk at Trump Plaza. 4410400. evorestaurant.com. Serving specialty cocktails and 20 wines by the glass. Menu features world cuisine and brick-oven pizzas.

A selection of eateries and shops: Smoothies, pretzels, other snacks.

The perfect place for a light breakfast, sandwiches, salads, paninis and gelato.

Plate American Cafe

Satisfy your cravings at this American café open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Panda Express

Fast, casual Asian cuisine with a full menu.

Sbarro

Italian dishes and pizza served cafeteria-style.

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Steph Rudewicz — Fred and Ethel’s (Smithville) John Finger —Ducktown (Atlantic City) Sexiest Female Marley Pfeffer — Pro Bar (Resorts) Liz Barassaban — Gypsy Bar (Borgata) (Non-Casino) Corinne Palzer — Fred and Ethel’s (Smithville) Laura Michelle — Diving Horse (Atlantic City) Like us:

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MAY May 25 • Steve Winwood, Borgata • Pitbull, Borgata • Garbage, House of Blues May 25-28 • Beyoncé, Revel May 25, 27 • Kevin Hart, Trump Taj Mahal May 26 • Paul Anka, Harrah’s Resort • Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Tropicana • ZZ Top, Gretchen Wilson, 3 Doors Down, Trump Taj Mahal • Laff Mob w/Rudy Rush, Roz G, Mark Viera, Red Grant, Tropicana • Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Golden Nugget • AfroJack, Borgata May 26-27 • John Pinette, Borgata May 27 • Collective Soul, Harrah’s Resort • New Edition, Boardwalk Hall • Alien Ant Farm (free concert), House of Blues

JUNE June 1 • Weezer, Borgata • Boxing: Super Summer Brawl, Tropicana • Miguel, House of Blues June 2 • Bill Maher, Caesars • Kid Rock, Revel • Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Boardwalk Hall June 8 • HOB Comedy Jam w/Charlie Murphy, Kid Capri, House of Blues • Boogie Wonder Band, Tropicana June 8-9 • Frankie Valli, Borgata June 9 • Sting, Borgata • Atlantic City Ballet, Resorts • Ultimate Elvis Contest, Bally’s June 15 • Sugarland, Revel • Ron Neglia’s Ring of Combat 41, Tropicana

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JULY July 1, July 4-8 • Celtic Thunder, Harrah’s Resort

• Gordie Brown, Golden Nugget July 1 • Styx, Reo Speedwagon, Ted Nugent, Borgata July 3-4 • Mary J. Blige, Caesars July 5-6 • Jamie Foxx’ Foxxhole Comedy Jam, Caesars July 6 • Bob Saget, Borgata July 6-7 • James Taylor, Borgata July 7 • Sarah Silverman, Caesars • Billy Gardell, Borgata • Commodores, Trump Taj Mahal July 8 • Sarah McLachlan, Borgata July 13 • B-52s, Squeeze, Borgata • Aziz Ansari, Borgata • Yes, Procol Harum, Tropicana • Nickelback, Bush, Revel July 13-20 • Blue Man Group, Caesars July 14 • Jerry Seinfeld, Borgata • Def Leppard, Poison, Lita Ford, Revel July 15 • Stevie Nicks, Borgata July 20 • Seal w/ Macy Gracy, Revel • Kenny Loggins, Borgata July 20-21 •Santana, Borgata July 21 • Howie Mandel, Borgata • Boston, Trump Taj Mahal • Air Supply, Resorts • Matisyahu, House of Blues July 27 • Summerland Tour w/Gin Blossoms, Everclear, Sugar Ray, Revel • Meat Loaf, House of Blues July 29 • Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Wisin Y Yandel, Boardwalk Hall July 31 • Donny & Marie, Caesars

AUGUST Aug. 1-5 • Donny & Marie, Caesars

Aug. 3 • Psychic Jennifer Rogers, Tropicana • Gipsy Kings, Revel Aug. 3-4 • Frank Caliendo, Borgata Aug. 4 • Jimmy Buffett, Boardwalk Hall Aug. 10 • Il Divo, Borgata Aug. 11 • Jay Leno, Borgata • Carlos Mencia, Tropicana Aug. 12 • Daughtry, Borgata Aug. 17 • Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis and Chayanne, Boardwalk Hall Aug. 18 • Roger Hodgson, Borgata Aug. 25 • Keith Urban, Borgata Aug. 26 • Kathy Griffin, Borgata Aug. 31 • Gabriel Iglesias, Borgata

SEPTEMBER Sept. 1 • Train, Borgata • Louis C.K., Trump Taj Mahal Sept. 1-2 • Cirque du Soleil: Dralion, Boardwalk Hall

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Black Keys help usher in Ovation Hall with Saturday night show at Revel

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“We’ve been playing that way [as a tandem] for a long, long time,” Carney says. “It’s something that we’re definitely comfortable with.”

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VERNIGHT SENSATION IS A cliché that is often way off the mark in the music business. A number of scribes have mistakenly labeled the Black Keys as overnight sensations, but vocalistguitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney are anything but upstarts.

The Ohio tandem started slugging it out in clubs in 2001 and they have finally hit commercial paydirt.

The talented twosome deserve all of the credit and success, but I didn’t see stardom coming the first time I laid eyes on the act in 2003 when the band played the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas.

A long, solid career? Yes. Superstardom?

It just didn’t seem their genre was the sort to enable a band to reach the upper echelon.

The Black Keys were touring behind the band’s fiery second album, Thickfreakness.

When the act opened Spin’s annual afternoon party, music industry folk had more interest in the free BBQ than the passionate bluesy numbers rendered by the bluesy-rockers.

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“It was a pretty good start for us,” Carney tells Atlantic City Weekly. “I remember having a great time at South

By Southwest the first time out.”

Well, the Black Keys were part of two more South Bys and they continued to build on their base. When they performed in 2010, the band had finally broken through. They were no longer an unknown quantity.

Industry insiders were all over the Black Keys.

“It took some time but we finally received some recognition,” Carney says.

It was well deserved, but who could have guessed that the Black Keys would become the hottest attraction out of Akron (with apologies to LeBron James)?

Well, the Black Keys are the most notable recording act out of the overlooked Midwestern city since Chrissie Hynde left for London 35 years ago.

Akron isn’t Detroit and the Black Keys aren’t the White Stripes even though the group is often compared to the defunct color-coded blues-loving tandem. There are common denominators but the Black Keys stand by on their own.

“We never worry about who we’re com-

pared to,” Carney says. “None of that stuff is important.”

What’s important is making consistently visceral, challenging music.

The Black Keys, who will perform Saturday at Revel’s brand new Ovation Hall, finally hit the charts in 2010 with the release of Brothers, which includes the alt-hit “Tighten Up.” The group won three Grammy Awards courtesy of that album.

“That was just something that was so amazing,” Carney says backstage at the Wells Fargo Center during a sold out Philly show in March.

“It was really cool to be recognized.”

It’s a nice nod from the industry, but the most significant thing for the Black Keys is that the act is embraced by a myriad of fans. While supporting its current — and 7th — album El Camino, the Black Keys are on its first arena tour.

The Black Keys didn’t play South By Southwest for a fourth time last March, due to the tour.

Apparently timing is everything in the world of rock. The Black Keys’ austere tunes wouldn’t have attracted flies during the 1990s. However, times have changed

and the act’s sound is happening. That’s one way to explain the Black Keys selling out Madison Square Garden in 15 minutes.

The acclaim and response is deserved.

The band proved that it can perform outside of reasonably sized venues. The Black Keys’ performance at the Wells Fargo Center was positively incendiary. The act and its music brought the massive throng of followers together as they thumped through the hits, such as “Lonely Boy” and “Howlin’ For You” and the deeper cuts.

The Black Keys perform with touring musicians Gus Seyffert and John Wood, who help flesh out Carney and Auerbach’s sound. However, the twosome is at its best when they perform as a duo. The former strums maniacally and belts out tunes like an old bluesman, while his longtime friend bangs away.

“We’ve been playing that way [as a tandem] for a long, long time,” Carney says. “It’s something that we’re definitely comfortable with. We’ve been playing together for a long time.”

The connection is obvious. Carney and Auerbach play with precision and at times in an almost telepathic manner.

The band’s shows are often awe-inspiring, but what’s perhaps most impressive about the Keys is that it has released seven extraordinary albums. The albums range from exceptional (Brother) to very good (2006’s Magic Potion). Who else has been that consistent over the last decade with the exception of Wilco?

The group gets notice for playing retro well, but perhaps its appeal is that it delivers its bluesy, soul-baring rock in an organic manner. Young fans are drawn to the Black Keys’ intense tunes like a moth to a lightbulb.

“We’re just pleased that people have responded to what we do,” Carney says.

“It’s a lot different than when we started out.”

When the band was just one of many relatively unknown acts trying to score some attention at SXSW eight years ago, who could have guessed that the Black Keys would become one of the most popular acts on the planet?

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to join the band, but I was with McCoy at the time, and I didn’t want to leave McCoy.” Fortune would eventually take Davis up on his offer and appear on several of the legendary trumpeter’s ’70s albums, including Big Fun, Get Up with It and Agharta. By 1975, Davis decided to take a rest from the music business, a sabbatical which lasted until 1980.

Fortune, however, was just getting into his groove. Carrying on the ideas and new music that Coltrane had developed, Fortune, while playing with Trane’s former bandmates or not, continued, he says, his “pursuit of [Coltrane’s] music.”

“I wanted to do the music that Coltrane was in pursuit of,” says the soft-spoken Fortune.

“Even today I consider myself pursuing [his] music.”

After cementing his place in the New York jazz scene as a riveting player and noteworthy sideman to the greats, Fortune started recording as a leader, putting out a wealth of tasty albums on various labels from the 1970s through to the current day.

On Saturday, May 19, Fortune will be 73.

He is also performing a rare Atlantic City date at Dante Hall Theater of the Arts (14 N. Mississippi Ave., 7:30pm, $30, 609-3472167), presented by the Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation. It’s not the first time he’s played on his birthday.

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It’s also not the first time Fortune will have played in Atlantic City. In the summer of 1965 he played in the late Chris Columbo’s trio at the legendary Club Harlem.

“I was down there the whole summer,” says Fortune. “I remember Club Harlem — in the front bar there were two bandstands, and “Gator Tail” Jackson was in the front, and [the house drummer] Chris was in the bar in the back of the front of the bar. We would go to work from [11pm-7am] and when the sun hit the drums, Chris would say, “It’s time to go.”

Fortune, who has traveled the world extensively performing and recording with countless musicians, remembers Columbo’s band, at the time, featured a guitarist, organist “and Chris and me.”

“I ended up recording with the organ player [Stan Hunter],” recalls Fortune. “He and I ended up doing — we co-led an album, actually it was my first album, on Prestige Records, it was called Trip on the Strip (1965). It was actually Hunter’s date but, we were co-leaders, it was his band and he had me as a leader, and it was my first major recording.”

Working closely with cats such as Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, playing with the Coltrane Legacy Band in the 1980s, and recording several acclaimed odes to Coltrane over his long career, Fortune’s music is deeply rooted in Trane’s ideas. Although the two only performed together once — “at a church at 18th and Diamond streets” in North Philly — Fortune is one of the most esteemed carriers of the Coltrane torch.

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In 1967, Fortune decided, like so many jazz musicians before him, to move to New York City.

“As a matter of fact, before I moved to New York, I saw Coltrane at his mother’s house one day and was talking to him about how I was thinking about going to New York and he wished me luck,” says Fortune. “He thought that I would do fine, and he said if you ever get the opportunity to play with drummer Elvin [Jones], take it!”

Coltrane, at age 40, died later that year.

“And I was working with Elvin when Coltrane died.”

Upon hitting the New York scene, the young Fortune picked up some solid work with Jones, as well as Frank Foster and Mongo Santamaria, with whom he’d play with for a couple years prior to a brief stint in California.

Fortune only stayed out west for less than a year before returning to New York, where he began playing with Coltrane’s famed pianist and fellow Philadelphian McCoy Tyner. He also continued to play with Jones and was a player on several of Miles Davis’ experimental, fusion-directed albums in the early ’70s.

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Jazz troubadour Sonny Fortune carries on the torch of John Coltrane, performs on his 73rd birthday at Dante Hall in Atlantic City. By Jeff Schwachter

HEN SONNY FORTUNE WAS in his early 20s, a jazz album changed his life.

“I don’t know my age, but I can do better at the time of year. In the late 1950s I first heard [John Coltrane] with Miles [Davis],” Fortune tells Atlantic City Weekly. “I was more into Sonny Rollins and what not; I think he had his stuff together. But when [Coltrane] left Miles and his original recording of My Favorite Things [came out], I’ll never forget.

“It was a Friday night. I don’t know where I was or who I was with, but I remember somebody played the album and I was so impressed I got up early that next Saturday morning, went down to that Market Street record shop [in Philadelphia] — it was about 4th and Market — and bought My Favorite Things and played it until it turned brown. That was the beginning of me just being overwhelmed by Coltrane.”

Fortune, a multi-instrumentalist who began playing saxophone while living in North Philadelphia, where he was born in 1939, remembers that nothing on the pop, soul or R&B charts at the time spoke to him like Coltrane’s landmark 1961 album.

“Coltrane turned me completely around,” says Fortune. “I was pretty much minding my own business until I heard him. At first I didn’t like him.”

While still a young man, Fortune turned his ears to jazz and in Philadelphia that wasn’t that strange a thing to do considering the amount of highly talented artists that came out of the City of Brotherly Love around the time Fortune was coming up.

“When I started to listen to jazz, I started moving away from R&B and soul music. In my younger years, to help this transition in my mind, I avoided that kind of music. You can imagine in my community, that wasn’t that easy! Everybody was listening to that [on the radio]. I was into doo-wop and what not, the Clovers and the Orioles and the Drifters, those were cats that I grew up listening to, but then I listened [exclusively] to jazz.”

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“We’ve played so many shows in Atlantic City but this one is different. We’re back with Brian.

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about that. We’re feeling so good about this.”

There is considerable excitement over the tour since the band’s enigmatic genius has returned to the Beach Boys. Wilson, who is one of the most storied figures in rock history, is thrilled to be back with the band he helped become seminal figures in the pop-rock world.

“I didn’t know if this would ever happen but I’m so, so happy that it did,” Wilson said while calling from his Beverly Hills home. “We should be in this band playing Beach Boys music. There’s just a lot of, uh ...”

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The Beach Boys dive into new album and golden anniversary tour with Brian Wilson.

Wilson and Mike Love chime in on the grand reunion. By Ed Condran

HILE ON YET ANOTHER BEACH Boys tour sans Brian Wilson three years ago, vocalist Mike Love expressed hope for a reunion with his estranged bandmate.

“I pray that we can get back together in a few years since our 50th year as Beach Boys is coming up,” Love said. “I hope Brian will come back for a tour then.”

Love received his wish. Late last year the Beach Boys announced that Wilson agreed to return to the fold for a tour marking the group’s golden anniversary and a new studio album.

“I dreamed that this would happen and it’s here,” Love said while calling from his San Diego home. “It’s so great to be back with Brian. It’s a remarkable milestone.

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“We all feel really exuberant now that we’re back together,” Love said. “We feel good on the stage and in the studio.”

Love says it felt like he went back in time when he and the Beach Boys recorded their forthcoming as yet untitled album, which will drop June 5. “The new record sounds just like the mid ’60s,” Love said. “That was the vibe and feel in the studio. Brian’s melodies and harmonies and chord progressions are fabulous. Wait until you hear all the new songs.”

Wilson penned each of the fresh tunes, including the initial single, “That’s Why God Made The Radio,” which will be out next week.

“We still have the energy and creativity to do great things,” Love said.

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“Little Deuce Coupe” and “Help Me, Rhonda.”

“I love the older songs,” Wilson said.

“I always have. We’ll be doing songs like ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ and ‘Do It Again.’

It’s fun to do them, especially live.”

Wilson joined the Beach Boys for the first time in 16 years when the iconic act performed at the Grammy Awards in February.

“It went smoothly,” Love said. “It was a good start to what we’re doing.”

There is no definite plan beyond the current tour, which stops at the Borgata on Saturday, May 19, but Wilson would like to record another Beach Boy album.

“This time I would like to do some rock n’ roll,” Wilson says. “I would like it to be a bit harder and faster.”

So the future looks bright since Wilson and Love have been able to look past their differences and lawsuits filed against each other.

“That’s all history,” Love said. “It’s all forgotten about. We’re looking at our present and future. I think we’re going to be doing this again with Brian for a long time.”

Perhaps the Beach Boys are embarking on another “Endless Summer.”

“I hope this is endless,” Love said. “I’m feeling good about it. I’m also feeling good about Atlantic City. We have a lot of memories when it comes to that town.

It’ll be good to go back. It’s made for a band like us; we’re the Beach Boys and Atlantic City has a wonderful beach. It’s a unique and wonderful place that I’ve always felt great about going back there.

We’ve played so many shows there but this one is different. We’re back with Brian. We’re back to being what we’re supposed to be. There’s just so much joy with our band right now. I’m having as much fun as I’ve ever had with this band. What we have is an extraordinary thing.

“It’s unfortunate that we lost a lot of years with Brian but the thing is that we have him back and we’re all dwelling on the positive. We’re really creative now and we’re having so much fun as a band. You can’t ask for anything more than that.

Who knew that it was going to work out like it has? Some guys in bands go their own way and never come back. That’s not our story. Brian came back and we’re playing as well as we ever have.” n

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Fact Sheet Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:26E-1.4(l) PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION ATLANTIC COUNTY DOCKET NO. F-7662-12 NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS

rior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, ATLANTIC County and bearing Docket No. F-7662-12 within thirty-five (35) days after 05/17/12 exclusive of such date, or if published after 05/17/12, thirty-five (35) days after the actual date of such publication, exclusive of such date. If you fail to do so, Judgment

by Default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. You

shall file your answer and proof of service in duplicate with the Clerk of the Superior Court, Hughes Justice Complex, CN-971, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, in accordance with the Rules of Civil Practice and Procedure.

This action has been instituted for the purpose of (1) foreclosing a mortgage dated May 25, 2007 made (Continued on next page)

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Description of Contamination Affected Environmental Media: Soil, Groundwater Contaminant Concentrations: xylenes, 6,630 ppb GW (March 2005); toluene, 37,600 ppb GW (March 2005); soil largely remediated Remediation Standard: NJDEP’s Groundwater Quality Standards and Soil Standards Extent of Contamination: On-site and may extend onto Lots 23, 25-30, 39 and 40 Date Contamination Identified: November 1998 Source of Contamination: Leaky underground storage tanks List of On-Line Resources: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html and www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg Description of Actions Performed to Minimize Impact to Public On-going monitoring of groundwater contaminants and receptor evaluation Date Fact Sheet Prepared: May 2012 Responsible Party Contact Information: John Deull (609) 226-5954 and John Kalogerakos (917) 699-9391 Licensed Site Remediation Professional Contact Information: (732) 784-2822 Publication Date: May 17, 2012

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STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO: DEAN E. HEILER

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to serve upon FEIN, SUCH, KAHN & SHEPARD, plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is 7 Century Drive, Suite 201, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054, telephone number #(973) 538-9300, an Answer to the Complaint filed in a civil action, in which ONEWEST BANK FSB is Plaintiff and DEAN E. HEILER, et al., are defendants, pending in the Supe-

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by DEAN E. HEILER as mortgagor to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN HOME BANK, NA recorded on June 18, 2007, in Book of Mortgages for ATLANTIC County, Instrument Number 2007058373, et seq., which mortgage was duly assigned to the Plaintiff named above, who is the present holder of said Mortgage; and (2) to recover possession of, and concerns premises commonly known as 5745 PLEASANT MILLS RD (FKA ELWOODWEEKSTOWN ROAD), MULLICA, NJ 08215, Block 6401, Lot 3.

You are made a defendant because you are a mortgagor and your lien or encumbrance on the mortgaged premises is subject to plaintiff’s mortgage.

If you cannot afford or are unable to obtain an attorney, you may communicate with the Legal Services Office of the County of venue by calling: ATLANTIC COUNTY LAWYER REFERRAL: (609)345-3444 ATLANTIC COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES: (609)348-4200

Dated: May 11, 2012 JENNIFER M. PEREZ Clerk of the Superior Court of New Jersey Pub Date: May 17, 2012 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION ATLANTIC COUNTY DOCKET NO. F-6797-12 NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO: HUMBERTO SURIEL YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to serve upon FEIN, SUCH, KAHN & SHEPARD, plaintiff’s attorneys, whose address is 7 Century Drive, Suite 201, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054, telephone number #(973) 538-9300, an Answer to the Complaint and Amended Complaint, if any, filed in a civil action, in which NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC is Plaintiff and HUMBERTO SURIEL,

This action has been instituted for the purpose of (1) foreclosing a mortgage dated February 19, 2008 made by HUMBERTO SURIEL and ALEX SURIEL as mortgagors to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GOLDEN FIRST MORTGAGE CORP. recorded on March 18, 2008, as Mortgage Instrument Number 2008021987 for ATLANTIC County, et seq., which mortgage was duly assigned to the Plaintiff named above, who is the present holder of said Mortgage; and (2) to recover possession of, and concerns premises commonly known as 27 N. BELLEVUE AVE, ATLANTIC

CITY, NJ 08401, Block 277, Lot 13.

You are made a defendant because you are a mortgagor and your lien or encumbrance on the mortgaged premises is subject to plaintiff’s mortgage.

If you cannot afford or are unable to obtain an attorney, you may communicate with the Legal Services Office of the County of venue by calling: ATLANTIC COUNTY LAWYER REFERRAL: (609)345-3444 ATLANTIC COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES: (609)348-4200 YOU, HUMBERTO SURIEL are made party defendant to this foreclosure action because you are one of the mortgagors and may be liable for any deficiency and for any lien, claim, or interest you may have in, to or against the mortgaged premises by reason of the Mortgage made by you, HUMBERTO SURIEL and ALEX SURIEL, as set forth above.

Upon request, a copy of the Complaint and Amended Complaint, if any, will be supplied to you for particularity.

Dated: Apr 24, 2012 JENNIFER M. PEREZ Clerk of the Superior Court of New Jersey Pub Date: May 17, 2012

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Upon request, a copy of the Complaint and Amended Complaint, if any, will be supplied to you for particularity.

et al., are defendants, pending in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, ATLANTIC County and bearing Docket No. F-6797-12 within thirty-five (35) days after 05/17/12 exclusive of such date, or if published after 05/17/12, thirty-five (35) days after the actual date of such publication, exclusive of such date. If you fail to do so, Judgment

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HERE IS SOMETHING SO SAD about a movie that wants to be funny and isn’t. Dark Shadows is exhibit one, another collaboration between director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp, a union that has produced excellent results in the past (Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland) and some misfires (Sweeney Todd).

The movie plays its parody elements dead straight, with a plot revolving around a befuddled vampire who can’t quite get the hang of life in modern times and his nemesis, a witch who relishes the modern world.

Depp plays the vampire, Barnabas Collins, who has been locked away in a coffin for 200 years, put there by the vengeful witch Angelique (Eva Green), whose love for Barnabas was spurned in favor of the innocent Josette. In revenge mode, Angelique bewitches Josette, who plunges to her death over a cliff.

This all happens before the opening credits, then we are sent forward in time to the discovery of the Barnabas Collins casket and the release of Barnabas, who revives his spirits with some fresh kills and then goes home to meet his modern ancestors.

The plot is based on the hit vampire soap opera TV show of the same name from the 1960s. I never watched it so I can’t explain the fascination that led to Burton’s interest in reviving the story.

The vampire angle is almost a side issue.

Yes, Barnabas kills construction workers and a band of hippies, but it is not with any malice. He wishes he didn’t thirst for fresh human blood, but what can you do when a witch has cursed you?

A series I did watch as a child was The Addams Family, and Dark Shadows comes off as a weak rip-off of that show without any of the laughter or wit that John Astin brought to the TV series and was later continued by Raul Julia in the movie version.

Dark Shadows just sits there flat and boring, with the energy of the actors in lock down mode thanks to laugh lines that get no laughter and a storyline that never goes anywhere interesting, The only actor who almost pulls off her performance is Green. She is outlandishly over-the-top and determined to breathe some life into this total misfire.

Unfortunately, except for a couple of rare joke set-ups that actually work, her efforts are in vain.

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’70s Throwback ‘Safe’

When I declared myself a fan of JeanClaude Van Damme years ago, I knew I was confessing to a guilty pleasure.

Some might declare my current passion for ex-model and former Olympic diver Jason Statham a similar guilty pleasure, but I think he is a better actor and he has been in some really good films including The Italian Job and The Bank Job. His latest, Safe, is an action flick that will be coming to Red Box in a few months but I really liked its 1970s style ambience and a plot that had a lot more going on than a standard genre plot. Statham’s character is complicated and interesting, and the ’70s feel comes from a sense of hopelessness in the face of corruption that goes all the way from dirty cops to the dirty mayor (Chris Sarandon) that controls the corrupt cops for his own personal gain.

Then there are the Russian and Asian mobs that have our hero Luke Wright (Statham) caught in the middle of a war trying to save a child, Mei (Catherine Chan), a math prodigy whose skills have been exploited and made her a target.

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646-4848, ext. 31 / e-mail: listings@acweekly.com THURSDAY, MAY 17

SUNDAY, MAY 20

Atlantic City Best Bartender Awards Diving Horse , 9 S. MLK Blvd, Atlantic City.

Presented by AC Weekly at the Diving Horse.

Celebrating the area’s bartenders. After party to follow. Free. 7-9pm. (See p. 37) Bay-Atlantic Symphony Lecture Series Margate Public Library, 8100 Atlantic Ave., Margate. The concluding lecture series of the 2011-12 season, is titled “The Listener Owns It.” Allow yourself to respond to unfamiliar music, unhampered by preconceptions caused by the music’s name, nationality, genre, gender, or title. Free. 6:30-8pm. 8224700. bayatlanticsymphony.org.

Absecon Lighthouse - Pirate Activity Day Absecon Lighthouse , 31 S. Rhode Island Ave., Atlantic City. A day for young seafarers to come and experience a swashbuckling good time. The Philadelphia Fight Ensemble will present their live rapier skills in a show full of exciting swordplay and comedy for young and old. Kids will also enjoy crafts and Pirate “Jeoparrrrghdy,” a scavenger hunt, goodie bag surprises and snacks, and a climb to the top of the Lighthouse to look out for the ghosts of shipwrecks. Dress as your favorite pirate.

Admission is $12 for kids and $6 for adults.

Plus the first 120 visitors to check in will be treated to a Jolly Roger Cruise out of Gardner’s Basin at 3pm on Atlantic City Cruises ‘Cruisin One. The Lighthouse is open at 11am-4pm, and the show will be presented at 1pm. 449-1360. abseconlighthouse.org.

Jersey Shore Jazz Vespers Asbury United Methodist Church, 1213 Pacific Ave., Atlantic City. Jazz guitarist Tony Marshall and friends. The event is free, but donations are welcome. Refreshments will be served after the concert. 4pm. 703-7907. jazzvespers.com.

Cape May Jazz Vespers Cape May Presbyterian Church, Hughes and Deactur sts. Cape May. Featuring Andy Lalasis and his friends. Lalasis is a longstanding musician in Atlantic City. $5 donation requested.

3pm. 884-0680. capemayjazzvespers.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 18 The Hawkins Road Trio Formica Bros. Bakery Cafe , 200 N. Tilton Rd., Northfield. Featuring Ernie “T” Trionfo on guitar, Jimmy “Old School” Glenn on percussion and Brian “The Voice” Conover on keyboards. $6. 7-10pm. 646-6565. formicabrosbakery.com.

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SATURDAY, MAY 19 TO MAY 20

Cape May Stage - ‘Flywheel, Shyster, & Flywheel’ Robert Shackleton Playhouse, 405 Lafayette Street, Cape May. Cape May Stage proudly presents the Marx Brothers Lost Radio Show, Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel as the inaugural production of the Equity theatre’s acclaimed Monday night Second Stage Series. $20. 8pm.

884-1341. capemaystage.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 22 Beach Ball Fundraiser Atlantic City Country Club, 900 Shore Rd., Northfield. The annual Fundraiser for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey is the foodbank’s annual signature event. It features samplings from the finest area restaurants, entertainment, and auction items. Tickets are $100 per person with tables of 10 available for $900. 5-8pm. To be advertiser, reserve tickets, donate auction items or for further information call 383-8843.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 MBCA Annual Spring Scholarship Luncheon Tropicana Casino Resort, 2831 Boardwalk, Atlantic City. Keynote speaker and MBCA Education Award Honoree: New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education Dr. Roschelle Hendricks The Metopolitan Business and Citzens Association has given out more than $95,000 in scholarships to local students to date. $5. Noon. 348-1903. mbcanj.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 25 TO MAY 27 Wildwoods Heroes Memorial Day Weekend Festival The Wildwoods. a host of events and festivals comemorating servicemen and Memorial Day including Friday: Fireworks Display, 10pm, beach at Pine Ave, Saturday, Taste of the Wildwoods Food & Music Festival, noon-9pm Fox Park (11am-3pm Sunday) and Sunday,

Wildwood International Kite Festival Beach at Rio Grande Avenue and Wildwood Convention Center, 4501 Boardwalk. Event begins on Fri: 9pm with the Illuminated night kite fly. Sat: & Sun: East Coast Stunt Kite Championships on the beach as well as kite exhibits and workshops. Mon: Indoor kite fly. Free to spectators. 732-822-4884.

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Art Exhibit - ‘Flowers of Light’ Ocean Galleries, 9618 3rd Ave. Stone Harbor.

Renowned floral artist, Brian Davis, brings his incredible collection of artwork to Ocean Galleries. Davis will be at the gallery for intimate receptions from 7-10pm all three days. His work will be on exhibit until June 25.

Gallery hours are 10am-5pm with extended hours for the Brian Davis show. 368-7777. oceangalleries.com.

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May 25 – July 11 The World’s Greatest Live Tribute Show Featuring Elvis, Adele, Bobby Darin, Marilyn Monroe, Justin Timberlake and Whitney Houston

SATURDAY, MAY 26 Pizza Slaughterfest Tony Baloney’s, 300 Oriental Ave., Atlantic City.

Presented by Tony Baloney’s. The most gruesome and world’s largest pizza eating competition that will for the third year, spill pizza sauce all over Atlantic City. Live bands, vendors, and all day revelry. Free. 11am. tonyboloneys.com.

Tri-For-Our-Veterans Triatholon The popular sprint-distance race will attract participants from across the nation, including active-duty military personnel, cadets and midshipmen from West Point and Annapolis Military academies, members of running clubs, university students and many other athletes who will help raise money for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and Sea Isle City’s VFW Post 1963. Free to spectators. 7am. sea-isle-city.nj.us.

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SATURDAY, MAY 26 TO MAY 27 Wildwood Boardwalk Craft Show Boardwalk at Rio Grande Avenue, Wildwood.

All handmade products. 9am-5pm Daily. Free.

522.0378 or 522.0198.

Cold Spring Village Concerts Historic Cold Spring Village, 720 Route 9. Cape May. 2pm each day at the Village Gazebo.

Saturday features The Bob Ferris Orchestra and Sunday’s performance will be from the John Walter Cape Community Band. Both concerts are family-friendly with music for all ages! The Village’s historic buildings will be closed, but the Welcome Center, Country Store, Ice Cream Parlor and Bakery will be open. 898-2300. hcsv.org.

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SUNDAY, MAY 27 Blues and BBQ Wine Festival Natali Vineyards, 221 N. Delsea Drive, Cape May Court House. Food Entertainment, vinyard tours, wine tastings. Free. 10-6pm. natalivineyards.com.

MONDAY, MAY 28 Atlantic Brass Band Rotary Bandstand, Lyle Lane, Cape May. Long a favorite with Cape May audiences, the 35-piece Atlantic Brass Band returns for a rousing concert of American music. Part of the Cape May Music Festival. Free. 8pm. capemaymac.org. n

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Smithville Mayfest Historic Smithville and Village Greene, Rt. 9 and Moss Mill Rd. Smithville. More than 100 Juried Crafters plus an International Food Court, live music, children’s activities and, of course, Smithville’s 60 Charming Shoppes. Free.

10am-5pm. 748-8999. smithvillenj.com.

MONDAY, MAY 21

FRIDAY, MAY 25 TO MAY 28

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Sonny Fortune Quartet Dante Hall, 10 N. Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City. Presented by the Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation and Richard Stockton College. Fortune, who plays soprano, tenor and baritone sax as well as clarinet and flute, has earned high praise for his recordings with his own quartet and has played with music legends McCoy Tyner, Buddy Rich, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. $30.

7:30-10pm. 347-2167. chickenbonebeach.org.

(See interview, p. 39) Walk for Williams Syndrome Ventnor Gazebo, Newport Ave. and Boardwalk, Ventnor. As part of the WS Awareness Week, a Walk for Williams will take place in over 40 locations throughout the country to benefit the Williams Syndrome Association. Registration begins at 9am in the gazebo at Newport Avenue and the boardwalk. The walk starts at 10am and goes in both directions along the boardwalk. williams-syndrome.org.

S.I.C. Garden Club Flower Sale Sea Isle City Public School, 46th Street and Park Road. Sea Isle City. The Flower Sale will feature a large selection of quality blossoms in flats, including begonias, marigolds, pansies, impatiens and many other popular flowers. There will also be a wide variety of herbs, hanging floral baskets and other potted plants for sale.

Proceeds will benefit the Garden Club’s scholarship program and other charitable efforts.

Free. 9am-3pm. 263-1157.

S.I.C. Community Day A series of events and programs for residents including an event at the Sea Isle City Community Lodge between 11:00am-1pm, when the public will have the opportunity to meet elected officials, speak with City department heads, and discuss upcoming events and activities with representatives from local civic groups. 263-4461 (ext. 245). sea-isle-city.nj.us

USO-Style Variety Show and Headliner Concert at the Wildwoods Convention Center’s Oceanfront Arena at 8pm. Go to WildwoodsNJ.com/heroes for full schedule.

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