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Thrillist Launches Atlantic City ‘Pop Up’ Edition

Here’s one sign that Atlantic City may finally realize Paul Sevigny and Governor Chris Christie’s shared vision of an ironic-seedy Hamptons for cash dispensing hipsters: Men’s lifestyle newsletter Thrillist is launching an Atlantic City edition. It will be published once a week from May 17 until Labor Day, said parent company Thrillist Media Group, which is calling the seasonal food and entertainment curation—what else?—“a pop-up.”

“I went to school in Philadelphia and we would go to Atlantic City quite a bit,” Thrillist founder and editor-in-chief Adam Rich, a UPenn alumnus, told Off the Record. “The whole sort of operation has become much classier.” Read More

The Transom

Rob Corddry Didn’t Jump

The grand Art Deco observation deck of Rockefeller Center—closed since 1986, but to be reopened to the public on Nov. 1, thanks to a $75 million Tishman Speyer face-lift—is 850 feet high and affords magnificent views of up to 80 miles away. In theory, one should be able to see as Read More