Sunday afternoon the first Zombie Dash occurred on the industrial streets of Greenpoint. This informal 2.5 mile race originally started as an idea between friends and quickly evolved into a large event with about 150 participating runners. You could sign up as a human or as a zombie. These were not the slow moving zombies of years past but super fast and in shape runner zombies who definitely kept the participants on their toes. Keep your ears open for a more formal, sponsored zombie dash around Halloween.

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While you were laying on a roof somewhere and eating a hot dog on Sunday, zombies briefly occupied the neighborhood as part of the annual NYC Zombie Crawl. Participants donned head to toe zombie makeup and tattered clothing and traveled from Trash Bar to Grand Victory, McCarren Park, Spike Hill, and Public Assembly. The first stop had had makeup artists for the not-so-DIY-ers, while the other stops had live music, contests, drink specials, and giveaways.

As horrifying as some of the Brooklyn zombies may have looked, nothing comes close to the real life “zombie” incident that same day. As you’ve probably read by now, Florida police shot and killed a naked man who was eating the face of another man on the side of a causeway. Not only was he consuming human flesh, but it took multiple bullets to take him out. Authorities believe he was in a drug-induced paralysis, but if that doesn’t sound like the beginning of a George Romero film, we don’t know what does.

For those of you interested, zombies originate from the voodoo tradition in which priests used rituals and powders to turn enemies into the “walking dead.” The term “zombie” first appeared in print in 1792 as a Creole word meaning spirit, but unlike other Hollywood monsters like the werewolf or vampire, the zombie as we know it today has no literary tradition. The creatures first appeared in film in 1932′s White Zombie.

Zombies are taking over and this Halloween and we have realized that THIS really could be, The End of the World. So what better way to meet your maker than to party all night long. Come as one of the hated enemy zombies or come dressed as if this is your last night of your life (cuz it is…)!!

Instead: Dress to fit in as one of the putrid partying zombies or dress to stand out, as its your last night on Earth.

With DJ Klever, Nick Catchdubs, and Jubile on the decks and Nicky Digital snappin’ your pic and leading us to total devastation and imminent afterlife
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Bedford is always a costume catwalk, making Halloween an opportunity happily seized by the hip set Nicky Digital found celebrating this weekend.

While he was out painting the town orange he photographed 8 Halloween parties.

You decide, are these youngins rockin’ ‘stumes or their normal threads?

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