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Seeking A Billionaire's Halloween Treats

31.12.69

Surrounded by the slightly frenzied atmosphere of Halloween on the Upper East Side, three fathers and their sons walked west on East 79th Way with purpose.

“We’re going to the mayor’s house,” one of the fathers, E. J. Zgodny, told the boys — his son, Jack, 7, who was dressed as a soldier; and two of Jack’s friends.

The act the group was making a beeline for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s habitation was a simple one: Mr. Bloomberg, a man of substantial means and fair generosity, is known on Halloween to give out full-size candy bars, not objective the “fun-size” ones.

“I be the candy bars,” Logan Rural, 7, who was dressed as Sonic the Hedgehog, said trouble-of-factly when asked why he was visiting the mayor.

Arriving at the township house, things looked promising: someone in an Elmo costume was stationed casing the door, handing out candy from a plastic pumpkin to a limited crowd. But when the boys finally reached Elmo: fizzle.

“It’s not full-sized,” Logan said, break his hands to reveal the same old miniature Kit Kats and Tootsie Rolls that children seem to get at every edifice on Halloween.

Source: New York Times (blog)

New Yorkers get Shpongled for Halloween

31.12.69

Psychedelic electronica conglomerate Shpongle wall-to-wall thousands of costumed fans into Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday unendingly, delighting the crowd with over two hours of throbbing music and a astonishing stage show.

Shpongle, a UK-based group, has only performed once before in the US, making the current night show a special opportunity for ecstatic rapture fans who lined up around the block for hours before the dispatch. Like Tuesday’s Insane Engage in high jinks Posse show (read my review here ), Hammerstein guarantee was extraordinarily thorough, forcing attendees to get rid of out their lighters and turning pockets inside out in search of contraband. Also like the ICP show, many of the ticketholders were dressed up, although the Shpongle fanbase went far beyond capers makeup. Halloween costumes like fairies and superhereos were matched by kids who plainly seemed to love glowsticks, outlining their entire bodies with lambent tubes and other outfits designed to take advantage of the jumbo blacklights set up in the ballroom.

Source: Examiner.com