Wild Kingdom, Record Store Day, Doo Dah Parade – Weekend Happenings

It has been a while since we had a really nice weekend in South Jersey and this one sounds like it! This weekend promises sunny, spring weather and a number of fun events for the family.

Let me invite you to join me in the celebration of Record Store Day this Saturday.

The day looks back to when record albums were the way America enjoyed music and spotlights the trendy return to vinyl as a better way to listen to music, because albums simply sound better.

The Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing, home to the record store, The Rock Shop, is celebrating with a day called "Sound Waves at the Mall", featuring live music and discussions about music trends. I will be apart of the  music discussion at 3pm Saturday.

Here are the South Jersey Weekend Happenings....

Atlantic City

- Convention Center: Discover Dinosaurs Unleashed, Sat-Sun 4/16-17

- Claridge Hotel: The first of the Chicken Bone Beach Foundation Spring Jazz Concert Series, Fri. 4/15

- Borgata: Frank Caliendo, Fri. 4/16, The Music Box

- Borgata: Puscifer, Fri. 4/15

- Golden Nugget; A U-2 tribute band, Fri. 4/15

- Borgata: Jewel, Sat. 4/16

- Tropicana: Three Dog Night, Sat. 4/16

- Golden Nugget: Bobby Rydell, Sat. 4/16

- Harrah's: Ciara, Sat. 4/16

- Taj Mahal: Mexican singer/songwriter Ana Gabriel, Sat. 4/16

Comedy

- Blue Velvet Theater in Scores at the Taj Mahal, Comedy Crapshoot, Sat. 4/16

- Hideaway, Atlantic City: Bob Levy & Friends, Fri-Sat. 4/15-16

Other fun stuff to do this weekend

- Ocean City: The Basset Hound Olympics, Fri. 4/15 @ 1p, 6th & Asbury Ave

- Stockton PAC: Peter Gros of Animal Planet's "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" brings some of his favorite exotic animals in for a special show, Sat. 4/16 @ 10am only

- Mays Landing: Join Lite Rock's Eddie Davis for Hamilton Mall's Sound Waves at the Mall Record Store Day celebration, Sat. 4/16 from 11a-4p

- Ocean City The Doo Dah Parade, Sat. 4/16 @ noon, Asbury Ave to the Boardwalk, original parade organizer Mark Soifer, who is retiring after 44 years as Ocean City publicist, will be the master of ceremonies. A park at 9th and Asbury will be dedicated to Soifer before the parade.

- Atlantic City: PAL Amateur Boxing, Sat. 4/16 @ noon, PAL Building, 250 N. New York Ave., 609-347-5478

- Brigantine: The Beach Green Team is planting 100 beach bloom seedlings, Sat. 4/16 from 10-11:30a, at the end of 12th Street

- Somers Point; CONTACT Cape- Atlantic's 25th annual Spring Sensation, Fri. 4/15  from 6-9p, Greate Bay Country Club

Atlantic City: Penny Auction to benefit the Parish of St. Monica, Fri. 4/15 @5p, Quaremba Hall, 609-641-4634

- Stockton PAC: Limon Dance Company, Fri. 4/15

- Galloway: Evenings at Forsythe, Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Fri. 4/15

- Hammonton: Boutique Week in downtown Hammonton, with sales and events

- Atlantic City: Seashore Gardens 5K, Sun 4/17 on the AC Boardwalk at the Tropicana, 609-748-4614