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Dracula Swoops Into Claridge Hotel on Halloween for Atlantic City Ballet
Story by Lou Perri With October comes the Halloween season with youngsters dressed in costume going about trick or treating. The Atlantic City Ballet’s Dracula moves into the Claridge Hotel with Halloween performances. Halloween just wouldn’t be the same without taking in a performance of Atlantic City Ballet’s “Dracula”. Since 2006, “Dracula” has been mesmerizing audiences with its spell binding choreography, beautiful costumes and captivating music. This year Dracula makes another haunting return to the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City. “Dracula,” an original work, choreographed by Artistic Director, Phyllis Papa, is a full length ballet that has captured audience’s imaginations with hypnotic fascination. “Despite the reputation of the main character,…
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New Exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Audubon to Warhol, The Art of American Still Life
Photos, story by Lou Perri Timothy Rub, the Philadelphia Art Museum executive director, and his able staff, have done it again, offering the region an exciting still life art exhibit, and bringing in the Peale family at the preview event on Thursday, Oct. 22, to share in the wonderful works of art including many Peale paintings. The Philadelphia Museum of Art brings a major exhibition surveying nearly two centuries of the most intimate, intricate, and varied genre of painting practiced in the United States. Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life will explore the nature and development of still-life painting in this country from the days of the…
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Introducing SOUTH: Bynum Brothers’ New Kitchen, Jazz, Bar and Restaurant in North Philly
Photos, story by Lou Perri In a recent revival of North Philly, we can now add another jazz gem to the list, located down the street from the Divine Lorraine (soon to be apartment buildings upstairs and commercial downstairs). Welcome SOUTH: Kitchen, Jazz, Bar to the expansive list of top-tier night life establishments with a top of the line venue and restaurant at 600 N. Broad Street. Pioneering restaurateurs and jazz aficionados Robert and Benjamin Bynum, who have brought such fine venues as Warmdaddy’s, Relish, Paris Bistro, and the late Zanzibar Blue to the City of Brotherly Love, are reaching out yet again with a beautiful three-room establishment featuring a top of…
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Miss America 2016 Betty Cantrell Visits Two Schools in Atlantic City
Photos, story by Lou Perri, For the first time since she was crowned Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell visited two local schools in Atlantic City on Thursday, Oct. 8th. Betty Cantrell visited Atlantic City High School and the Richmond Avenue Elementary School to perform and speak about her platform, Healthy Children, Strong America, as well as the importance of getting involved in the school and neighborhood communities.Explore NJ went to the Richmond school for that event. The elementary school was selected because the school won the Lite Rock/Miss America Serves Food Drive, which collects non-perishable foods for the Atlantic City Mission. Students filled an Atlantic City row boat with large collection…
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Fall Into Street Art with The Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Vaulted Walkway
Photos, story by Lou Perri The Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a vibrant group of art enthusiasts, hosted their most popular fundraiser of the season, this year titled Fall into Street Art. The event was held on Friday, Sept. 18, in the Museum’s Vaulted Walkway and kicks off the Young Friends’ year-long drive to support vital projects for the museum. A highlight of the evening is the fashionable dress female members wear to the fundraiser. This year’s event was led by co-chairs Christine Bugg and Paul Shifflet, who planned a street-fare-inspired menu, hand-crafted cocktails, and live entertainment by hip-hop artists Freestyle Dance Academy, Sanbrooka Productions and The…
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Miss Georgia, Betty Cantrell, is Crowned Miss America 2016
Story, photos by Lou Perri Miss Georgia, Betty Cantrell, was crowned Miss America 2016 at the birthplace of the legendary competition in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall for its 95th Anniversary broadcast on the ABC Television Network. Vanessa Williams returned to the Miss America stage after 32 years since her crowning as Miss America 1984 and served as Head Judge. Williams opened the show with a performance of “Oh How the Years Go By.” Williams joined host Chris Harrison, co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet, music curator Nick Jonas and celebrity judges Brett Eldredge, Taya Kyle, Danica McKellar, Kevin O’Leary, Amy Purdy and Zendaya. Cantrell is a student of Mercer University. During her year…
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Get a Sneak Peak of The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo and Titian at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Photos, story by Lou Perri What can one say about Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and his gifted staff, but they did it again with another wonderful exhibit. The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers visitors The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian. The exhibition focuses on one of the finest works by the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Prometheus Bound. This ambitious, large-scale painting, described by the artist himself as “the flower of my stock,” is presented alongside works by the Renaissance and Baroque masters who inspired Rubens’s dramatic treatment of the eternal torment…
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It’s A Hard Knock Life Interviewing Miss America Mid-Atlantic Contestants
Photos, story by Lou Perri On a mild night recently, Explore NJ moseyed on over to the Golden Nugget where the 52 Miss America contestants dined at the swimming pool deck overlooking Atlantic City. While Explore NJ enjoyed seeing the most beautiful women in the United States, the purpose was to photograph and interview the four ladies from the Mid-Atlantic states, Miss New Jersey, Miss Pennsylvania, Miss Delaware and Miss New York. Here are summaries of those young women. Miss Delaware, Brooke Mitchell, of Selbyville, Delaware, is a nineteen-year-old student at Delaware Technical and Community College, hoping for a Master’s Degree in Education, and wants to be an elementary school teacher. Her platform…
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Miss America Contestants Introduced at Kennedy Plaza on AC Boardwalk
Photos, story by Lou Perri Miss America Competition‘s 95th Anniversary gets its start with a welcoming event. The 52 contestants’ arrival ceremony kicks off a week of festivities and events around Atlantic City leading into a week of preliminary competitions, culminating in the live telecast on ABC, Sunday, Sept. 13 at 9 to 11 p.m. (EST). In attendance to welcome the contestants to Atlantic City included the organization’s partners, sponsors, and government dignitaries, including the Hon. Kim Guadagno, Lt. Governor of New Jersey; the Hon. Don Guardian, Mayor of Atlantic City; Jeff Guaracino, Executive Director, Atlantic City Alliance; Dr. Marilouise Venditti, MD, Chief Me Y the Miss America contestants gathered in front of the…
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Taste of the Quarter Gains $24K for United Way
Photos, story by Lou Perri The United Way fundraiser, Taste of the Quarter, held on Monday, August 24th, attracted many who support the United Way, and others who enjoy tasting some of the Tropicana’s signature restaurants and eateries. In a report, some 926 patrons purchased tickets to the event, and United Way gained $24,635. It’s also time to meet and greet some of the local celebrities and executives in the region. For example, the United Way’s president and CEO, Jim Cawley served guests at Classic Cakes, a Philadelphia-based company that owner Howard Bush includes many Atlantic City hotel casinos as customers. Classic Cake offered guests an assortment of freshly baked…