Located in the attractive, modern beachfront Ventnor Library building; the cultural arts center…read moreoffers has an art studio area and a dance studio area and offers exercise, dance, and art classes for both adults and children (separate classes). In addition they organize various special events, such as a periodic outdoor/indoor art show where local artists and handicraft vendors can show their stuff.. Information about the classes they offer is available on their website: http://www.ventnorarts.org/ . see my Ventnor Library review for info about the whole library building complex.

I took a yoga training class here and was initially expecting a space that wasn't very nice. My…read moreexpectations were immediately blown away when I saw what this space actually was... a nice library, an art workshop, and a ballet studio all in one! The back of the center features a playground for the kids. There are numerous classes held here for young and old alike. In other words, there's something for everyone.

I saw Wicked here and loved it. The next year I came back…read moreand watched Naked Gun. I love this small cozy theater with a nice concession shop and an attached bar. Hope to get back to see Wicked 2

Such a charming movie theater. Tickets are reasonably priced. The popcorn is great and they even…read morehave extra seasoning powders that I've never seen offered at a theater before (try the ranch!). Theater two is quite small but has very comfortable reclining chairs. Theater one is much larger and the chairs are more like classic auditorium chairs, but you feel like you're totally transported in that space. Seeing the big yellow curtains close on the stage at the end of a film credits is worth sticking around for. Perfect place to spend a rainy day down the shore.

Highly recommend Schmoopy's!! Your children/ grandchildren Evan be entertained by the day/ week/…read morewhole summer. All types of fun activities including Tye Dye Tuesday, Watermelon Water Day Wednesdays. Treasure Hunt Thursday, and the new favorite- Friday PieDay! So much fun. Healthy activities include spike ball, wave jumping, Gaga, visit to the pet salon, and more! Positive, happy experience for all. Private birthday and celebrations can be scheduled as well!

Today I attended the Downbeach Seafood Festival in Ventnor with my family and I am here to tell you…read moreit was one of the better ways to spend a few hours on Earth. According to its official description this annual festival gathers together seafood vendors, local restaurants, arts and crafts, live music, and cooking demonstrations right by the water. The website promises food, fun, and community, and for once the advertisement was not a lie. We parked in the free lot on Wellington Avenue and the organizers had arranged for jitneys to shuttle us back and forth with the precision of a German train schedule. This was a good omen. If human beings can cooperate to move strangers from one place to another with such efficiency then perhaps there is still hope for us. The first thing we saw was the South Pacific Island Dancers performing at 11:30. They were graceful, rhythmic, and most important, they engaged with the crowd so no one felt like a passive observer. At noon Yani the Band took the main stage and provided the sort of unoffensive musical background that makes you want to linger among food stalls a bit longer than perhaps is healthy. And what food. My son ate nachos from Tacocat and declared them righteous. I tried fried clams from Ike's Famous Crab Cakes. The serving was modest in size, which was a shame, but the clams were thick with meat and tasted like they still remembered the sea. The homemade roasted tomato tartar sauce and horseradish sauce were so good they could be bottled and sold as souvenirs. My wife ate a scallop roll from Scallop Shack Farms and looked happier than she has in a month. Eventually she simply ditched the Texas Toast so she could completely enjoy those perfect little discs unmolested by distracting gluten. My oldest son spoke glowingly for the ham and cheese croquettes from Del Toro Tapas. He would have handed out pamphlets if they had any. For drinks we experimented. Pirate Pete's sodas came in metal mugs that you could refill all day long. The concept is so simple it feels like a parable. We also bought a cucumber refresher and a lemonade from Squeezies. The lemonade was squeezed to order and tasted like summer itself had been liquefied. Between bites and sips we wandered among the vendors and stopped to talk with an artist from Surfboard Taxidermy. He makes sculptures from discarded surfboards. To look at his work is to realize that waste can become beauty if given the right pair of hands. It was a reminder that while some people turn trash into political careers, others turn it into art. Bless the latter. It cost us ten dollars apiece because we bought tickets in advance. Fifteen at the door would still be a bargain. The sun shone, the air was kind, the food was plentiful, and the company of strangers was pleasant. That is the best of civilization in miniature and I will not forget it.

We had an incredible day at the Downtown Seafood Festival. This event is so awesome. I was shocked…read moreand delighted it wasn't more crowded for such a budget friendly seafood festival. The fee to get in was $10 online, $15 at the door. We had planned to take the very clearly marked free parking shuttle but the day started off strong with us pulling up to a spot right by the entrance. There is a lot going on, and it was all good stuff. They do have a schedule on their website if you want to catch the fire dancing, hula dancers or live music shows, all were great. There are limited chairs but many people brought their own. I might do that next time. We did all the tasting options. The Oysters were $25 . You got two oysters from each of the 6 farmers. This was so much fun! All of the oysters were amazing and all had a delicious mignonette options. Our favorite was the Salty Soul. Not only were they delicious but we loved the family vibe and they were fun to talk to as they cheered me on to try my very first raw oyster! Beer tasting was $10 to get a small cup of 12 beers. Each brewery had two options Favorite beer was Farm Truck Baked Sale. It was a smoked helles lager. Strong runner up was MudHen. Chowder tasting was a $10 donation to the food pantry. We didn't even get through all the chowders. There were at least 20. It was a blind tasting so you didn't know who made what. Favorites were the creamy crab and the one with corn sprinkled on top. There were so many additional food and beverage options including a Coke tent that gave out free Coke products all day long! I was shocked that many vendors had food under $10. In addition to all of the fun activities we really met some awesome people. All of the vendors and the other guests mingled at shared tables and while online. Lines were minimal and food value and fun times were plentiful. This truly was a great day and I would highly recommend this event. I hope to return for years to come and bring friends to share in the fun!

This place shouldn't be dead on a Saturday night in the summer. There was so much potential for T…read moreStreet to be an exciting and popular spot, possibly helping to revive AC. The new nightclub, WAV, was open that night. I had no interest in clubbing, but noticed an email offering free and discounted cover. About a dozen people sat around Monkey Bar. A sign said that the dueling piano bar would be open at 10pm. Everything else appeared closed. Garces is no longer handling the catering. The website sucks so I don't know what the deal with the T Street food is. It should have been a lively, hot scene rather than a desolate ghost town. I'd love to be proved wrong with this review update, but for now I won't be holding my breath.

I went to the soft grand opening for this place held on the Thursday prior to the grand opening…read more My overall feeling about this place is meh. ...meh. They offered sample sizes of some of the food they plan to offer and it was nothing to write home about. In fact so much so that I'll leave the food details at just that. It's what I expect to be overpriced pub food (price list or menu wasn't given to us) and with several locations it didn't feel as if any actually offered a variety of food. Pub, pub, everywhere. The concept is there but T Street offers no form of originality that makes it worth going to in place of similar places. In fact, with the location in a mall I actually felt that the venue and placement was a bit awkward. While there is no place quite like it in Atlantic City I don't find that it'll be a location to really drive in visitors. Let's face it, AC is a dying city and well in need of attractions to bring tourists and money back into the area. Perhaps when it's completely finished it will better represent the vision. I personally felt the venue was one-dimensional and for the amount of space could've offered a greater variety of music/food to fit various preferences. For now, I can say the live music is a nice addition. In some places it was played so deafeningly loud that it was difficult to really sit, eat and converse if that's what you chose to do. However, If that's your scene you'll likely enjoy it but its also worth noting that the majority of music was country/bluegrass. The drinks were okay. There were no specialty drinks/menu offered but the bartenders were friendly and knowledgeable at preparing classics. As of right now this is not on my must do list for when I visit AC and doubt it will ever be. However, I will be fair and return when the venue is completely finished and possibly update my review.

This was the best surf school I've ever been to and the instructors are phenomenal I've never…read morelearned more

AC surf school is an amazing surf school! We would recommend this surf school to anyone wanting to…read morelearn to surf or send their child!! AC surf school has personal 1 on 1 lessons & a really cool week long surf camp! Our 7 year old JP loves not only all that surf time, but the learning Tom Forkin & his team of guys put into the kids! They teach the kids all about the ocean & surfing stories with its history! Tom, Mike, Matt, & Shanor & Mario are the best surf instructors on the island!!! We are so happy we went with AC surf school this summer & plan on returning many more summers, maybe winters!

I am a fan of festivals in general, and this one was pretty good. While I wouldn't make a special…read moretrip here from Philly in the future, I would be happy if I happen to be here this time next year. The festival was at Bader Field, and the whole admission/parking thing is...interesting. They don't charge you admission, but they do charge you to park - $10. It's not that much but it does make sense to carpool. You're parking on a grass meadow, so if your car is close to the ground like mine, it's not too comfortable. Bring your truck if you've got it, but any normal car would be fine. The other annoying this is that there's no markers for determining where you parked - so it may take a while to find your car. Hopefully you have one of those panic buttons to locate it. There's also no directions on exiting, so you may drive around for a while just trying to get out. There was some bike festival going on that I passed on my way in that looked interesting too. Now the festival itself is almost all seafood as you'd expect. It certainly didn't disappoint on that. There was everything from legit gourmet restaurants there with offerings to greasy spoons, to food-truck hipstery things. most of the stuff was pretty standard stuff. Some was overpriced (I'm looking at you - $10 for one fish taco guy), but most was pretty reasonable. I really enjoyed the Chart House offerings that were both delicious and reasonably priced. The Guy Fieri place was there - who must have forgotten it was a seafood festival because I could be wrong, but I don't think they offered any seafood. Pulled Pork and Mac n Cheese burger if I recall correctly. There was this other place, the Laughing Crab Catering company that also had decent food, but the owner was not a nice guy. Well i don't know if he was the owner - he certainly acted like it. Older guy, white hair, bad attitude. He seemed so positively upset that he was there. It was super bad energy for the otherwise fun atmosphere. I've never been to Havre de Grace, MD - where this place claims to be from - but I don't have the highest opinion of it so far - to put it mildly. This place had a lot of options, probably more than any other place I saw and was not impressed with their crab cakes, despite it being "real" and not merely "maryland style." It tasted like a deep fried crab flavored fishcake. It needed tartar sauce. There really wasn't anything too creative either, other than the SPUDWICH - which was a fantastic idea from the "one potato two" shop where they use large potato skins as bread and put all kinds of things inside them to make a sandwich. The owner's son was super nice and genuine and enjoyed talking with him about the SPUDWICH story. There was a live band too that was very good. Did not catch their name. There were also cooking demonstrations, wine tastings, and a beer garden. All in all, I had a good time and was very happy to have visited.

I am formally requesting a full refund for all three tickets I purchased for this event, as well as…read morecompensation for the expenses and inconvenience caused by the event continuing to be advertised and sold after it had already ended. My family and I drove approximately two hours to attend this seafood festival and spent approximately $50 in gas. When we arrived, we were shocked and extremely disappointed to discover that the event had actually ended weeks ago. Despite this, tickets were still being advertised and sold through Eventbrite, giving customers the impression that the event was still scheduled to take place. This is completely unacceptable. We made the trip in good faith based on the information provided when we purchased our tickets. Instead, we wasted several hours traveling to an event that did not exist on the advertised date and incurred additional expenses because of this error. Since we had traveled two hours and were expecting to attend the festival, my family and I were also left without the food we had planned to purchase at the event. We ultimately had to spend approximately $200 on food elsewhere. I purchased three tickets. One of the tickets has a different confirmation number, so I will be submitting a separate refund request for that ticket as well. I am requesting the following: A full refund for all three tickets Compensation for approximately $50 in gas expenses Reimbursement or appropriate compensation for the approximately $200 we spent on food because the event was not taking place Additional compensation for the time, inconvenience, and disruption caused by this situation Customers should never be able to purchase tickets to an event that has already ended. Continuing to advertise and sell tickets for an event that is no longer taking place is extremely misleading and demonstrates a serious lack of communication and professionalism. I expect this matter to be investigated and resolved promptly. Please confirm when my full refund will be issued and how you intend to address the additional expenses and inconvenience we experienced. I look forward to your immediate response. it's going on a week and still no response.