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every year, the atlantic city st. paddy's day parade turns the boardwalk into a strange and wonderful collage of bagpipes, green beer, families, and a large number of people who clearly started drinking around 8am. i grew up going to the paddy's day parade with a family who took it really seriously. i'm also half irish (dún na nGall abú!) so i feel pretty confident in my recommendations here. me in '08ish decked to the 9s if you’re heading down this year, here are a few place

in this piece i get into a stretch of atlantic city history when morality meant getting arrested for exposing a knee and the governor threatening to send troops into town over a sunday drink. a novelist named louise rosine got hauled off the virginia avenue beach in 1909 for rolling her stockings below the knee. around the same time officials were policing bathing suits, banning bare chests, and deciding who was dressed respectable enough to go in the ocean. meanwhile the gov

i went through every single "ac" "atlantic city" "boardwalk" "taj mahal" etc mentions in the epstein files so you don't have to.... mostly boring logistics that literally made my brain wanna melt. duplicates, travel schedules, promo emails, fbi desk briefs, and general business sludge. a lot more logistics than scandal. this first pass is just laying out who shows up and what’s actually documented. nightmares the main name that keeps resurfacing is nicholas ribis, longtime c

if you grew up anywhere in the orbit of atlantic city, you’ve probably had at least one conversation about morals. maybe about whether you give a shit if the homeless guy you handed change to spends it on booze. maybe about whether women should show their knees on the beach. prohibition. the casinos. every mayor we’ve ever had. the crda. trump. epstein. paris. nicole. everybody’s got a theory and a moral high ground. but guess what baby. this is atlantic city and we’re level

if you could build a bridge straight out from atlantic city and just keep going until you hit land, there’s a pretty good chance you’d end up somewhere near one of my bucket list spots: nazaré. in this piece we walk the streets of nazaré, looking at what feels familiar and what doesn’t. where you might sit and smoke a cigarette. how a place built around giant waves compares to one built around giant bets. over there you gamble with big wave surfing, over here you gamble with

gambling has been around longer than rules..... longer than morality... and the alphabet. whether you’ve ever rolled dice or not, you’ve for sure gambled before. everyone has. ancient myth even credits one man, palamedes, with inventing both letters of the alphabet and dice, which means the same figure tied to language and reason also gets blamed for chance. the story gets stranger from there. the article below, pulled from a 1967 issue of monsieur, goes into how dice moved f

a guide to valentines day in atlatnic city