People in Atlantic City have an unusual way of New Year celebrating. They celebrate the first day of the calendar on the beach at the Music Pier on the Boardwalk (Moorlyn Terrace & Boardwalk); parties, games, great music and lots of entertainment. The joy starts at noon but first ice-dipping begins at 2 pm. Dare you dip?

2. International Power Boat Show

The Atlantic City Convention Center hosts the annual International Power Boat Show featuring over 700 power boats and yachts, Power Boat Docking Challenge, the free, informative Fishing and Boating Seminars, latest marine gear and accessories, fun coconut climbing, hundreds of power boats and a marine market. The next International Power Boat show will be taken place during February 6-10, 2008.

3. Atlantique City Spring Festival

Atlantique City Spring Festival is the world’s largest indoor art, antique and collectibles shows. Experience the 2008 unique festival on March 29-30 and enjoy a variety of gadgets and gizmos range from metalwork, American folk art, European and American bronze, drawings, prints, fine furniture, Asian art and antiques, glass, porcelain and silver by exhibitors from more than 40 states as well as Canada, Great Britain, Europe and the Orient.

4. Champions on Ice

Freeze the first week of April with ‘Champions on Ice’, the annual exhibition of the U.S. Figure Skating Association and the International Skating Union. The ultimate performance features skating’s greatest stars such as Michelle Kwan, Sasha Choen, Timothy Goebel and Rudy Galindo Meissner, or superb skating partners; Besedin and Oleksiy Polishchuk, Tatiana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin and Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat.

5. Borgata Summer Open

If Las Vegas is out of your reach, Atlantic City’s Borgata Summer Open offers you a 30-event poker tournament which will finish with the $5,000 + $200 No Limit Championship Event. Twelve main events including Texas Hold’Em No Limit, Texas Hold’Em Limit, 7-Card Stud, and a Ladies-Only Tournament will be taken place in the Borgata Hotel’s 85-table poker room in mid-June.

6. Family Fun Weekend and Book Fair

Families parade to join Family Fun Weekend and Book Fair which is held in mid-July featuring family activities and various entertainment; magic show, face panting, balloon animals, hand-made paper demonstrations and also books written by New Jersey Authors.

7. Pumpkin Festival

Historic Cold Spring Village hosts the Pumpkin Festival of which highlights are old fashioned American customs and culinary preparations related to the pumpkin. The festival is yearly held in October featuring craft show, a huge range of entertainment, food vendors, pumpkin painting, Halloween and Pumpkin Parade.

8. Sherlock Holmes Weekend

To commemorate the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Cape May is a home for the annual celebration ‘Sherlock Holmes Weekend’ offering those into mysteries to search for clues and reveal a mysterious case. Also, you can enjoy the Victorian architecture of Cape May, the festival is scheduled March 7-9 and November 7-9, 2008.

9. Costume Pet Parade

Show off your pets on fancy dressing in the Costume Pet Parade and bring them out for the ‘meowing and barking’ parade. You can join the event without charge, watching the pets marching in unique costumes. Let’s see who’s the most fashionable and who will set a new trend.

10. Winter Wonderland

Dip into snowflakes, be under a magic and say hi to Santa in a Winter Wonderland festival held at Center City Park at Atlantic and North Carolina Avenues in early December. You can enjoy tasty candy canes, hot chocolate and take pictures with Santa Claus. Children ages 12 and under can send the letters to Santa in the North Pole, see if they will get replied.

2. Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America

3. Atlantic City

4. Atlantic City: 125 Years of Ocean Madness

5. Atlantic City: A Guide for Tourists

6. Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City

7. The Sultan of Atlantic City

8. Ocean City: America’s Greatest Family Resort

9. Henry of Atlantic City: A Novel

10. Live from Atlantic City: The History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television

2. Atlantic City Jackpot (1975)

3. Grover Washington Junior - Live From Atlantic City [2001]

4. Action Stations Atlantic

4. Welcome to Atlantic City

5. BOARDWALK BEAT! shopping in Atlantic City

6. City Confidential - Atlantic City

7. JOHN PATRICK CASINO LEARN TO PLAY PAI GOW POKER DVD

8. National Parks USA - From the Pacific yo the Atlantic (2005)

9. Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic/The Titanic Chronicles (1930)

10. The Atlantics: Flight of the Surf Dogs