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NOW FOR SOMETHING TRULY SCARY...
SATURDAY NIGHT HALLOWEEN!
Though overpriced evenings and mob rule is usually the case on a Saturday night Halloween in NYC, it IS possible to have a truly great night
out with a bit of research and pre-planning. With NYC alternative nightlife in an upswing, there are so many promising Halloween choices this year
that we were forced to whittle this
list. We've included six distinctly different Halloween events with cover at $20 or under, at nightclubs and alternative spaces, hosted or programmed by some
of our favorite creative types. For many more choices visit the EDGE OF NIGHT forum on THE MOTHERBOARDS, where Board Moderators select events of special interest to our audience.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 (HALLOWEEN)
DANCES OF VICE
HALLOWEEN: THE DWINDLING PARTY
303 BOND STREET THEATER
303 BOND STREET, BROOKLYN
FROM 10 PM
$20 AT DOOR ONLY
dancesofvice.com
This Halloween, vintage dressers rejoice, as dearly beloved gathering DANCES OF VICE presents an ominous EDWARD GOREY themed Victorian Halloween fete with a murder mystery undertone that promises to be most exquisitely deranged. The Dwindling Party will feature the murder ballads of special musical guests THE SCARRING PARTY, sensational crime scenes performed by resident rapscallions COMPANY XIV, fashions by that ruffled ruffian PUREVILE!, and musical pandemonium of Ben Ickies' 24-piece chamber rock orchestra, THIS AMBITIOUS ORCHESTRA.
DRESS CODE: Neglected Murderesses, Doubtful Guests, Gashlycrumb Tinies, Hapless Children, Gilded Bats, Anguishing Artists, Dancing Cats, Menaced Objects, Restless Widows, &c. Costume is required for admission.
SMACK! PRESENTS
UNDEAD SEXY, THE HALLOWEEN BALL
CLUB REBEL (former BATCAVE)
251 WEST 30tH ST, 7-8TH AVENUES NYC
FROM 9 PM, 18+
$20 in advance, $30 at door
With Special Guests CHRISTIAN DEATH, DJ Dark stars including IAN FFORD, JASON, CYN, PATRICK, TEMPLAR, MYKE HIDEOUS, DAMIAN PLAGUE, DARRYL HELL, JOHANNA CONSTANTINE and producer XRIS SMACK!, $1,000 in costume contest prizes and zombie pinup JOANNA ANGEL among the advertised delights, this is sure to be packed and shiny till the wee hours..The folks at SMACK! have been doing Halloween up large for many years, and present five different rooms for your pleasure, including a dungeon play space, multiple video feeds and a main stage for fashion show and musical guests.
Dress as an UNDEAD version of your favorite celebrity, musician or cartoon character: Undead Marilyn, Michael Jackson's Thriller, or Leather, Latex, PVC, Corsetry or other Warped and Kinky!
THEO & MICHAEL T PRESENT
RATED X IS UNDEAD, UNDEAD, UNDEAD
@DON HILLS
511 GREENWICH AVENUE AT SPRING, NYC
DOORS 10PM, 21 + ID A MUST
COVER $5 - $15
If Halloween means wearing extravagant makeup and dancing to a rock-tinged soundtrack amongst New Kids and gender-benders, this special Halloween edition of the much-loved RATED X party is your ticket for Saturday night. Besides the scene-stealing DJs MICHAEL T (MOTHERFUCKER founding producer and performance star) and THEO (THEO & THE SKYSCRAPERS and SCREEN TEST) and the general cheap-and-cheerful ambience of DON HILLS, other delights abound. Highlights will include MC PEPPERMINT GUMMYBEAR, hostly creatures ACID BETTY, NEON MUSIC, ANDY SHAW and JOE PHANTASTIC and a cabaret show by the fiendishly lovely DARENZIA. Add two contests with cash prizes and the hosts joining guest DJs TWIG THE WONDERKID and CRAIG CURIOSITY to spin "Rock N'Ghoul, Putrid Punk, Nosferatu New Wave and Death Disco."
KENNY SCHARF AND SCOTT EWALT PRESENT
COSMIC CAVERN A-GO-GO
GRUESOME HALLOWEEN FREAK-OUT DANCE PARTY
993A METROPLITAN AVENUE (BETWEEN CATHERINE + MORGAN), EAST WILLIAMSBURG
10 PM
$8 COVER (DRESS FOR BLACKLIGHT)
This newish party in artist KENNY SCHARF's Brooklyn studio is a riot of dayglo and blacklight fantasy, audience participation and brilliant visuals, attended by an Artstar-studded clientele. Both of the producers are artists and it shows - DJ SCOTT EWALT brings his curatorial magic to the evening's soundtrack, and Scharf's chaotic, witty visual imprimateur is literally on every surface of the space. We hesitated to even list this Halloween edition due to the night's small scale and devoted following, but it is so special that we wanted you to know about it. The Cosmic Cavern is billing it as a WAY-OUT GRUESOME HALLOWEEN FREAK OUT DANCE PARTY, and the featured performance is by BEADZ ON NET ILLUSION. Absolutely dress for Blacklight - for inspiration visit this COSMIC CAVERN party report with pictures on THE MOTHERBOARDS.
NEW ADDITION!
LINDA SIMPSON PRESENTS
BOO-SKI
A REFRESHING HALLOWEEN ALTERNATIVE
UKRAINIAN EAST VILLAGE RESTAURANT
140 SECOND AVENUE NYC
FROM 9 PM, $10 COVER
Drag hostess and journalist LINDA SIMPSON presents an East Village alternative in the tradition of her late great CLUB 69 at PYRAMID. The shows are the real draw here, with an 11 PM performance by burlesque sensation JULIE ATLAS MUZ and a midnight
show by Wigstock and Blacklips star FLLOYD. Other delights include Simpson's co-hosts VIOLET TEMPER and SYLVIA LONDON, DJ TOMMY HOTTPANTS and the obligatory costume contest.
The party room of this restaurant, part of the legendary UKRAINIAN NATIONAL HOME, will be all about the drinking and dancing - leave the pierogis for another day! If you live in the neighborhood, yet hate the Saturday-night EV bar hordes, this is a
great choice that should be full of familiar faces.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1 (ALL SAINTS NIGHT)
SUSANNE BARTSCH AND KENNY KENNY PRESENT
VANDAM HALLOWEEN AND MASQUERADE BALL
GREENHOUSE
150 VARICK STREET @ VANDAM NYC
FROM 10 PM
COMP DOOR
Facebook event page
Downtown Divas extraordinaire SUSANNE BARTSCH and KENNY KENNY are ruling Sunday nights with their weekly VANDAM party and providing a dressed-up night out for their faithful followers and new acolytes alike. Just honored by the VILLAGE VOICE as a 2009 BEST OF NEW YORK, VANDAM is wildly popular and insanely well-dressed in the most CREATIVE way. Wisely HALLOWEEN QUEEN and party hostess SUSANNE BARTSCH and Glam Laureate KENNY KENNY decided to host THEIR Halloween as the last event of this weekend, haunting their usual house.
With a performance by ghoulish glamour goddess JOEY ARIAS, DJ JOHNNY DYNELL rocking the dancefloor, performance videos from DESI MONSTER, fabulous tableau from DIRTY MARTINI, AJOSHUA and CHUCK ATTIX and JORDAN FOX upstairs, and a downstairs DISCO DUNGEON helmed by DESI MONSTER and LADYFAG, with DJ SAINT BUCK and KIM ANN FOXMAN, this is a HALLOWEEN weekend MUST. Add free admission, complimentary cocktails 10-10:30 and vodka specials all night and the marvelously mixed crowd, and we smell a mob scene in the making!
If Halloween weekend is your cue to stay in, EVERY week is festive here: We've seen nightclub legends and New Kids from all different eras out at this one - which practically guarantees that you'll see friends on any given Sunday.
MORE INFORMATION, ALWAYS!
Photos and Images: From CLICK + DRAG 3.1 - Vampira realness from JOEY ARIAS, for the JACKIE FACTORY's ED WOOD HALLOWEEN * DANCES OF VICE ringleader SHIEN LEE * ACID BETTY at a recent NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES, photo by AMBER GARBO * RATED X producers THEO and MICHAEL T *
AMBER RAY at a recent COSMIC CAVERN, photo by THE CLUB CREATURES from the COSMIC CAVERN party report on THE MOTHERBOARDS * DJ JOHNNY DYNELL, photo by MARK T. COLLINS.
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