This Week

We Kissed a Girl

UP UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO I’d never heard a Katy Perry song. But the pop singer’s got a way about her that intrigued us and after associate editor Lori Hoffman, who was more familiar with her music, spoke with Perry, she confirmed what we thought to be true: Perry’s an honest, funny, curious, excited and great interview (see p. 60). Perry holds nothing back in her chat with Hoffman, a longer version of which can be seen on our blog.

Speaking about our Web site, we are all very pumped about the pending relaunch of acweekly.com, which should be happening very soon! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or dial up acweekly.com for updates on this massive endeavor that has been timed in conjunction with this paper’s 35th anniversary and took a lot of sweat on the part of our parent company, Review Publishing, our Web team, our editors Mike Pritchard, Ray Schweibert and Hoffman, our art director Kevin McCarty and, of course, all of our interns.

Aside from the launch of our new site, there is a lot going on here in southern New Jersey during the remainder of the summer: a slew of excellent and free weekly music series (see p. 58), the upcoming Food & Wine Festival in Atlantic City (July 30-Aug. 2), Tony Mart’s Rock ‘N’ Roots Jamfest in EHT (Aug. 1), the Atlantic City Air Show (Aug. 19), dinosaurs at Boardwalk Hall (Sept. 2-6) as well as top-notch entertainers in the Atlantic City casinos (see p. 32) and the resort’s surrounding towns.

Inside this week’s issue, food columnist Frank Gabriel takes us on a trip to Venice Park (p. 42), Hoffman interviews Chazz Palminteri and reviews his one-man show at Harrah’s (p. 62), Schweibert speaks with country singer-songwriter Hal Ketchum (p. 52) and columnist David Spatz previews Jackson Browne’s upcoming performance at Borgata (p. 53).

Enjoy the summer while it lasts.