claire

atlantic city has never been a city that exists quietly. it has always been a place people pass through, linger in, leave, return to, and talk about later. a city built for visitors, but kept alive by the people who stay. a place where attention concentrates instead of disperses. that matters.... most advertising today disappears the moment it appears. it scrolls by. it refreshes. it competes with a thousand other things asking for the same second of attention. atlantic city works...

i SO was disappointed to read the philadelphia inquirer piece on atlantic city. not because the reporting was factually wrong, but because it leaned so heavily into a familiar crisis framing that this city has worn for decades. the headline tells you what to think before you’re allowed to look around. trial. fire. fear. repeat. the article stacks the mayor’s trial, new york casinos, and the peanut world fire into a single narrative and calls it a diagnosis. uncertainty is treated like a...

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nov 27 – dec 1 your guide to a guaranteed good time this holiday weekend. if u roll into thanksgiving hungover, that’s on you, not me. thanksgiving week in atlantic city hits different. the air gets sharp. the lights hit the boardwalk at a strange angle. the locals creep out of hiding and start doing their annual “i love my family but i’m going out anyway” routine. if youre in town, here’s where you should be before the turkey coma hits. wednesday: thanksgiving eve - november 26th angeloni’s...

atlantic city has spent a century being misunderstood. the postcards and punchlines tell one story, but the streets tell another. walk the 48 blocks slowly and you start to see the real version. not the myth. not the warning. the living thing beneath it all. long before hotels or the rolling chairs, long before the first boardwalk plank, the Lenape came to this barrier island for the summer season. they followed the tides, the fishing grounds, and the natural clock of the land, but they also...

yes, it was real. it wasn’t a metaphor or a marketing gimmick. from the 1920s through the 1970s, atlantic city had a horse that climbed a platform and jumped fifty feet into a tank of water while tourists cheered from the steel pier. sometimes a woman rode it. sometimes she didn’t. people called it entertainment. people also called it insane. like most things in this town, truth depends on who you ask. some say the horses loved it. some say it was cruel .some say it was a job. some say it was...

before atlantic city was a casino town, it was a stage. built on salt marshes and sand, the city began as a seaside escape for philadelphia’s sick and overworked. by the 1880s, the boardwalk had turned into something stranger, part sanatorium and part circus. people came to breathe clean air, but they stayed for the spectacle. there were diving horses, fortune tellers, glass-blowers, and human curiosities who made a living by being looked at. atlantic city has always rewarded performance. the...

before the vice, there was virtue. before the sin, there were sermons. before the glitter and the gambling, atlantic city was a recovery site. a miracle wrapped in sand. in the 1850s the railroad finally reached the island, and trains started bringing people from philadelphia who wanted to breathe clean air again. doctors called the shore a “natural sanatorium.” they said the salt could mend lungs, lift moods, and purify the blood. the victorians believed every cough was a moral failing and...

free meals, local food banks, and community support for anyone losing benefits this month.

how atlantic city’s pioneering airfield became a silent landmark, and why its next chapter shouldn’t belong to developers.

in the spring of 1929, atlantic city was a playground with a liquor problem. prohibition didn’t stand a chance here. the hotels buzzed, the boardwalk shimmered, and nucky johnson sat on his velvet throne. when al capone came to town, the story goes that every major mob boss in america followed. but like most atlantic city legends, the truth is slipperier than it sounds.

atlantic city isn’t just bars and noise. it’s the moments between strangers, the small talk that turns human. that’s where the real city lives.

tony scott wrote an elegy for billie holiday in swank magazine back in 1960. i found it sixty some years later at an estate sale in cherry hill, still pulsing with warmth and grief. i'd like to share that with you today. billie holiday spent time in atlantic city during the years when kentucky avenue was alive with jazz. club harlem was the center of it all, a black-owned venue that drew legends from across the country, including ella fitzgerald, cab calloway, duke ellington, and billie...

where to eat, sleep, and be merry..... stevie is performing at historic boardwalk wall on october 18th. friday night arrive. check in...

let’s get creative this year. halloween doesn’t have to be serious or sexy or even make total sense. you can be funny, weird, or built...

we made a playlist. for getting dressed. for drinking something warm in a cold can.. for walking too far in the wrong shoes. for leaning...