Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture Murder. Gender-bending club kids. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a crumbling church converted into a Manhattan disco, where mesmerizing music, ecstatic dancers, and uninhibited sideshow
| TITLE | : | Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.73 (805 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0767917359 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| PAGES | : | 336 Pages |
| PUBLISH | : | 2004-06-08 |
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Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene. In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on Special K, a designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a crumbling church converted into a Manhattan disco, where mesmerizing music, ecstatic dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers. Owen discovered a world where reckless hedonism was elevated to an art form, and where the ever-accelerating party finally spun out of control in the hands of notorious club owner Peter Gatien and his minions. In Clubland, Owen reveals how a lethal drug ring ope
EDITORIAL :
From Publishers Weekly To anyone who's ever wondered what went on in the 1990s' most notorious nightclubs, Village Voice reporter Owen has a highly engaging answer. He weaves together three strands of masterful reporting, focusing on Peter Gatien, the nightclub impresario who owned Limelight and the Tunnel in Manhattan; Chris Paciello, the gangster who started Miami Beach's Liquid; and "club kid king" Michael Alig, the party promoter and Gatien employee who murdered his friend Angel Melendez. Alig's drug-addled story is the most grotesque and chilling: a few weeks before he hacked off the legs of his dead friend, he had thrown a "Blood Feast" party in which some guests "came covered in raw liver and slabs of beef." The author has apparently settled down now; "life is too precious to waste spending your time lurking around VIP rooms and getting high." At one time, though, he was a true be
REVIEW :
Another helpful section (making up the bulk of the book), titled "Natural Remedies for Health," dives into remedies of everything from acne to UTIs and toothaches. I almost forgot! The essay questions were pretty hard too, in my opinion. Was this going to be a Western?!?! This book was full of hot, steamy romance and the whole “cowboy setting” is downright sexy.
I love it when something unexpected happens in a love story. The quality of the book, paper, reproduction, and design are all superb. was sent off in his helicopter. He has interviewed quite a few members of most groups (the exception being the mining company), so one gets a good feel for the attitudes of the people involved.
What I find most interesting is Leech's assesment of the mainstream media. Amazingly helpful. The Arginine Solution, the book that we are reviewing here, provides more dept
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