European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse By Beth j. Harpaz associated press Hokl Are a a a j Dro a i it and Acme a i a. Fadonna. College1 Rudeni. In j end it final revelry precludes a scr tic lore c p m Huir s is a Kinky world of nod House music. drugs and sexual antics in Chr Safe a Era Manhattan dance clubs Are a Way of life for club kids in the r teens and Early 20 j. Many of them from suburbs a d my , where an at nity for late hours and by Arre cloth made then outcasts it 5 about coming item where you re really nut accepted says Al Andrj Ivovic 22. A would tie fashion designer and cub regular from Louisville. Ohio we Are Here because we Don t itt in somewhere else " i started out As an league student at Columbia. Mar Tod going to clubs and found it was More fun says Jeff Bank Oil. 20. An emigre from a Boston suburb who has Sylce transferred to a loss demanding College Michat Lang 21, came to new York from South Bond. Ind. To attend Fordham University but alter his introduction to the club. He too. Transferred to an easier school today a jvo4 s As a part promoter earning Al .000 from club owners Tor each Bash he he Ohio is his quests Irum 12 Rev mgl is of 1,5to names rach. De vises a Hicri ranging lion hawaiian luaus to television commercials h res the not sent orders the Lood and plays Host the most outrageous padres arc mentioned in the Trail do in periodicals devoted to lilo club scene 01 in the a gossip columns of the Daly tabloids Good press and fabulous parties provide clubs with the reputations they need to attract people who pay $15 to gel in in contrast club kids usually get in Lor free the Inck is to dress outrageously and the Doorman another source of club employment one that pays up to $100 Lor a three Houi shift at 1 a m on one Winter tuesday yuppies businessmen and sedately dressed College students wait m Linn outside m a Manhattan club As the woman working the door whisks Alig and two pals inside. Alig wears makeup shorts made of Lake fur and suspenders his Roommate wears a Cowboy costume with them is a 19 year old girl in a decollete Black dress. Those people Are expedited into the explains Frank Roccio who owns the world an East Village club in Manhattan. They Are the happening people but aside irom that they entertain As Well we want to look at those kids we want to watch them cavort part of the entertainment of the evening is logo Home and say did Yuu Sou i twi Guy with the a Torr wife and spangled Eye Shadow " bizarre decor and Odd locales help set the clubs an thing can happen mood m k features a Wall lined with Bones and because it is housed in a Lormer Bank giant vault doors open out onto the dance floor. The hot new club Mars which opened m january is housed in a warehouse in Manhattan s meat packing District at 10th Avenue and 13th Street described by the new yorker Magazine As a location that would kill your Mother in she knew where you were renovating the five Story building Cost $1 million and the decorations include a Wall of computer chipboard a rusted piano old television sets and a collection of tribal masks. At m entertainment ranges from a performance artist whose act consists of Yoc clog and shrieking to a Man sheathed in Yards of while lulls lying languorous by on a Sola beneath a giant Canvas splattered with Black and White paint. He wears a woman s wig makeup High heels and nothing else on the dance door illuminated solely by three red track lights the crowd booties to acid House music a repetitive fast paced form of disco with mile Melody lots of computer tones and a generous helping of old dance tracks remixed and played at mind numbing volume. One popular Cut by the British band Bam Bam is called whole s your Enid the musical question is answered with a deep sinister echoing laugh and a single word. the reference is to a mood altering amphetamine based Pill. Drug enforcement administration agents say they can t find ecstasy formally known As mama on the streets. In the clubs regulars buy it Lor $20 a hit a 23-year-old Art gallery worker describes a typical evening i go to the clubs do sex. And go to work tripping the next while some say ecstasy is the club kids drug of Choice others say it is merely a lad Michael Musto. Who covers the club scene or the Village. Voice says those who Lake ecstasy Are a Romu cute portion of the club owner Roccio agrees that alcohol is the substance most often abused by the club crowd the drinking acre in new York is 21, but clubs can admit 16 to 20-year-Olds in they Don t serve them liquor a Law that is often winked at. But what s More striking in the clubs than either drug or alcohol abuse is the highly charged sexual atmosphere. Women Wear leather bras As outerwear and skirts that arc 10 inches Long from Waistline to hem male go go dancers Wear jockey shorts and sneakers. Musto says the antics sometimes gel out of hand. In one Case to says a participant m a wet to Shirl contest was nearly gang raped by clamouring spectators before she was rescued by her Boyfriend. Roccio also sees a new wildness on the club scene i think there is a revived sexual Awakening. We re going through the terrible reality of the aids crisis and like anything else we re seeing a backlash on the part of the younger fear of aids dissuade most people from the one night stands common in the new York disco scene in the Lale 1970s and Early 80s. Instead says Musto scanty clothing and a rated in Terra Ament constitute a sexual three ring circus you can t have sex. So you can at least watch a bizarre variation " the cub kids Are Blase " he nudity and outrageous dress people Are gang Home alone says Andy Anderson 23. A Nalic cd . As for the sex antics inside los c us a 19-year-old known on the club circuit As jul jewels says ii was All in fun it was t dangerous like Many club kids jewels has adopted a pseudonym and cultivates an image Loma cd. She wears a Long blonde Hairpiece and Low Cul. Light dresses Slit up the Side often sequined or b ack thai she designs herself she came irom the soviet Union 10 years ago and says Hei lather does t mind her club hopping As Long As she finishes her education at Hunter College. A gut part Page 14 the stars and stripes monday May
