’80s Pop Icons to Present at ACWeekly.com Nightlife Awards

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By Ray Schweibert

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Jan. 6, 2011

Tiffany, all grown up.

For the past two years, the ACWeekly.com Nightlife Awards and Resorts’ retro nightclub Boogie Nights have clicked well as a combo, recognizing exceptional contributions to the area’s after-dark social scene in a fun, nostalgic atmosphere.

This year’s awards party — scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 27, at Boogie Nights from 8-10pm — will again kick it up a notch, to borrow an Emeril Lagasse expression. Numerous guest presenters, among them 1980s singing star Tiffany, will bestow honors in about two dozen nightlife categories (including “best dance club,” “best happy hour,” “best lounge act,” “best resident DJ,” etc.). Another chart-topping icon from the ’80s, the female-fronted band Pretty Poison, will be debuting its new music video “No Limits” that is a song encapsulating the spirit of Atlantic City. Boogie Nights co-creator Dave Pena worked with Pretty Poison to produce the video.

“[The song’s] a tribute to Atlantic City and Atlantic City nightlife, and it will be matched with a video that will open up the nightlife awards,” says Pena. “It’s a song that you might say is like a landscape of Atlantic City nightlife that incorporates all Atlantic City imagery.

“Tiffany is going to be one of the guest presenters,” he adds. “She will be doing a performance at Boogie Nights the following night [during the club’s regular hours Friday, Jan. 28], and she was hip to the idea of coming in a night earlier just to be a celebrity presenter at the Nightlife Awards. It’s going to be a blast.”

Tiffany had two hits as a teenager in 1987 that reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts — “I Think We’re Alone Now” (which also reached Billboard’s No. 4 in 1967 with the band Tommy James & the Shondells), and “Could’ve Been.” Her song “I Saw Him Standing There,” reached No. 7 on the Billboard charts in 1987, and she continues to be an impact in the pop-music world more than two decades later.

Pretty Poison, fronted by lead singer (and New Jersey resident) Jade Starling, had a top-10 Billboard hit in “Catch Me (I’m Falling)” in 1987, and another that reached No. 14 (“Nighttime”) in 1984.

The ACWeekly.com Nightlife Awards had been invite-only during past two years. This year everyone in the hospitality industry — bartenders, cocktail servers, managers, dancers, DJs, performers, etc. — are welcome to attend. You must be at least age 21.

Click here and here to see past year's Nightlife Awards events at Boogie at Resorts Atlantic City.