ARTS AND CULTURE > ATLANTIC CITY HIGHLIGHTS
By Ray Schweibert
Those worldly ambassadors of the hard court, the Harlem Globetrotters, will make their annual winter foray into the Wildwoods Convention Center on Saturday, Feb. 20, as part of their 2010 World Tour. The Globetrotters will display the same basketball skill and wizardry they’ve honed for 84 years in a game against their rivals, the Washington Generals (whose notorious owner, Red Klotz, recently extended a tryout to former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien). The night will also include autographs, a post-game meet-and-greet and more. Atlantic City Weekly recently spoke with Herb “Moo Moo” Evans, a veteran Globetrotter and team spokesman for...
ARTS AND CULTURE > ATLANTIC CITY HIGHLIGHTS
By Ed Condran
'We would drive up from high school [in 1997] on the weekend and maybe play for a couple hundred kids in South, Central or North Jersey and then drive right back home, maybe play a show in the South and then be back at home and go to school Monday morning,' drummer Cyrus Bolooki tells Atlantic City Weekly.
ARTS AND CULTURE > ATLANTIC CITY HIGHLIGHTS
By Ray Schweibert
'We believe that body art is a beautiful thing, and we want to try to remove the negative stigma that it sometimes has,' says Cyprian Jennetta. 'We don’t think that anyone in general, but in this particular case women with body art, should be shunned or denied any opportunities that those who do not have body art might get.'
ARTS AND CULTURE > ATLANTIC CITY HIGHLIGHTS
By Michael Pritchard
There’s something magical that happens when Atlantic City businessmen start thinking about pageants — and marketing — at the same time. Beloved and cherished traditions that last for decades can be born.
A US District Court judge in Arizona slashed several key provisions to the state’s controversial immigration law Wednesday, but clones of the bill are multiplying across the nation, including in Pennsylvania. State Representative Daryl Metcalfe introduced House Bill 2479 May 4th this year, saying that it would help balance the budget, despite that Governor Ed Rendell [...]
The story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner nearly 30 years ago, is being told (again). This time by a local documentary filmmaker. Tigre Hill, a 1993 Temple grad who lives in West Philly, is premiering his film, The Barrel of a Gun, on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. [...]
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