I Attended a Halloween Rave for 6-Year-Olds

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"Everything glows in the dark!" shouts Katourna. She asks me to reattach her glow stick bracelet. I can barely hear her over the thumping electronic music in the club. People are wearing blinking green sunglasses. Some girls are dancing on tables

Before today, Katourna didn't know what a black light was, and she certainly didn't expect it would make her Ariel costume glow green. Katourna is six years old, as are many of the children at this nightclub. Instead of cocktails, they're balancing cupcakes. Rather than bottle service, it's literal bottles of milk

Halloween Extravaganza is a "cool kid's dance party" for six- to 12-year-olds, presented by CirKiz. We're at a nightclub called VIP Room, in the Meatpacking District of New York City. Only it's a Sunday afternoon, and enough time has passed that the fumes and pheromones of last night's 21+ crowd have dissipated Read more...

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