Cleverly cloaked contestants climbed onto the makeshift stage last Friday night at the Brass Monkey for its annual Halloween bash, but only one person struck fear into hearts of the judges.
“I am a man called horse,” declared a shaggy-haired Mark Goding as he strolled up the stairs and proceeded to gallop wildly in his meticulously constructed centaur outfit, its four legs moving in unison. Even the clever runners up, two pandas with different edibles glued to them (food pandas), knew they were defeated by this man who takes Halloween so seriously that tries to win as many competitions around Taipei as he can.
This is Golding’s dream year as bars, clubs and pubs have extended Halloween into two weekends. Tonight, the original Brass Monkey has another Halloween party, this time thrown by the Foreign Students Club. Brass Monkey Xinyi also hosts a Halloween party.
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■ Armageddon: A Blood Moon Rises is tonight at Brass Monkey from 8pm to 1am at 166 Fuxing N Rd, Taipei City (台北市復興北路166號). Admission is NT$500 and comes with two drinks.
■ Halloween Party at Brass Monkey Xinyi is tonight from 9pm to 4am at 20 Songshou Rd, Taipei City, Taiwan (台北市松壽路20號). Admission is free for ladies in costume and NT$150 for ladies not in costume, which includes a drink. For men in costume, admission charge is NT$300 and includes a drink. For men not in costume, admission is NT$450 and includes two drinks.
The Xinyi area continues to do brisk business even though most clubs in the ATT4Fun building have been encumbered with at least two one-hour-long police raids per night since the senseless killing of a police officer in the area by local thugs. Myst is celebrating Halloween by partnering up with the post- apocalyptic movie, Zombie Fight Club (屍城). Actors as well as zombies from the thriller will be there to scare the bejesus out of customers.
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■ Borderland Halloween party is tonight from 10pm to 4am at Myst, 9F, 12, Songshou Rd, Taipei City (台北市松壽路12號9F). Admission is free before midnight and NT$1,000 after, which includes two drinks.
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