After-hours are for vampires. After-hours in
New York are where it’s always Halloween—and
never more debauched than on Halloween night
at Purgatorio, rechristened PostPurgatorio
by the Saint at Large for their All Saints
priapic bacchanal. With four deejays and two
dance floors, as well as a rooftop lounge
for those vampires unafraid of light,
PostPurgatorio proved to be the perfect
crypt for those unwilling to return to their
coffins.
Credit the Saint at Large for knowing how to
decorate a mausoleum—and filling it with
heartstopping young vampires (clearly
prepping for their roles in the next
Twilight saga). With blood-splattered
urinals, coffins by Gothic Cabinet Craft,
and blackened chandeliers, PostPurgatorio
was a house the Addams Family would happily
call home—and home it proved to be for that
inveterate species, the denizens of New York
after-hours.
It was humid in purgatory, hellishly humid,
a sultry tropical hell—and a significant
portion of that heat emanated from the booth
where after-hours’ latest vampire, DJ Hector
Fonseca sent down an erotic electribal set
that was like listening to the future—of
now—and kept every budding Beelzebub
writhing in ecstasy.
Chalk it up to voodoo—and the release of
Fonseca’s alter egos. The steaming floor was
filled with nubile Lucifers, their hands in
the air to Fonseca’s remixes of “I Got a
Feeling,” “Million Dollar Bill,”
“Paparazzi,” as well as “Whateva,” “You’ve
Got To Believe,” and “When the Sun Goes
Down.” And his deliciously demented version
of Whitney’s “I Look 2 U” was nothing less
than a fierce battle cry for all those
demonically possessed.
Fonseca’s thrilling soundtrack for this
nightmare fantasyland scorched demons
throughout the house—from the fiendishly
frisky go-go boyz on the brink of orgasmic
explosion, to the bare-bottomed bad boy
bartenders, and including Marc Berkley with
costumed canine, and Vito Fun as the Naked
Chef, with horsewhip, and Ari Gold, in gold,
and a bevy of damsels in distress, including
a young lovely named Malaika (Swahili for
“angel”), wandering blissfully through the
devils’ playground.
“Miss Thing, there Is no guest list
tonight,” as “Club Lonely” puts it—and in
this purgatory, there were no barriers
either. All restraints were off as the
youthful crowd cavorted through this den of
iniquity—and all this before the arrival of
New York’s true Prince of Darkness, the
immortal after-hours king, DJ Junior
Vasquez.
For what is after-hours, but the place where
night never ends—and with help from the
angels of MedEvent (for even Mephisto danced
too close to the edge), the Saint at Large
gave New York’s most sexy incubi the
definitive Halloween after-hours.
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