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A migrant at the newly opened shelter in Brooklyn’s popular McCarren Park raved to The Post on Tuesday life is good — with three hot meals a day, spacious clean living quarters and use of the leafy refuge’s pool. “They treat us very well,” said Miguel Mujica, a 39-year-old dad of two from Venezuela. “There’s nothing they stop us from doing.” Mujica has been staying at the McCarren Play Center in trendy Williamsburg since Saturday, a day after the city set up 100 military cots for asylum-seekers there to help take pressure off city shelters that are bursting at the...

Set designers were finally able to draw fans into their vivid dream without the constraints of Newtonian physics. Yet virtual reality isn't all wonder.Pandemic lockdowns crushed the concert industry, but things are finally starting to move again. Many of us are optimistic that dense crowds might gather regularly by mid-autumn. The process is already starting in red states. Once everybody who’s anybody “takes the jab,” mass events should spread slowly across the country.All over the world, people are dying for another taste of what Émile Durkheim called “collective effervescence”: the intense thrill we get from a mass gathering with a...

Killing Kittens, a roving international sex club, is making its filthy debut in NYC. It is an import from the UK that is sinking American culture to the very bottom of the deepest ocean trenches, the Marianas included. Must we be awash from across the muddy pond with such as “In a matter of minutes, pants are off, bras are unhooked, and a tangled web of nude revelers go at it”, according to reporter Dana Schuster. (1) Schuster is detailing in raw descriptions just what goes on in this international hook up club, inevitably destined to reach America’s shores. This...

It's rare when Chris Matthews is outdone in his praise of Barack Obama but Time's Mark Halperin, on Thursday's Hardball, managed to top the MSNBC host as he delivered a rave review of Barack Obama's performance at the National Prayer Breakfast. After playing a clip of the speech, Matthews merely offered a "That's pretty good" but the Game Change co-author did him one better, going as far to warn any GOP candidate considering a presidential run in 2012 to study the address because it had "a level of sophistication and skill that not one Republican on the field right now...

Jan. 7, 2009 -- Stonehenge was built as a dance arena for prehistoric "samba-style" raves, according to a study of the acoustics of the 5,000-year-old stone circle. Using cutting-edge technology, Rupert Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University in northern England, discovered that Stonehenge's megaliths reflect sound perfectly, making the stone circle an ideal setting for listening to repetitive trance rhythms.

<p>Saying a federal judge overstepped his bounds by blocking the government's ban on glow sticks and pacifiers during raves at the State Palace Theater, an appeals court Friday tossed out a decision that sided with the American Civil Liberties Union.</p>

Thursday August 15, 02:11 PM Ravers hike up mountain to outwit police MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Thousands of techno revellers have outwitted French police by taking their rave, banned in France, up an Alpine mountain and cranking up their sound systems just over the border in Italy. After playing a game of cat-and-mouse with French police overnight, around 3,000 ravers began their "Teknival", planned to take place "somewhere in the south of France", at some 2,000 metres altitude on the Col de Larche mountain, officials said on Thursday. Wrapped up in warm clothes, the ravers set up their sound systems...

Two young women on an urgent mission have been lugging boxes into the offices of U.S. senators this week. The boxes contain petitions an inch thick, one for each senator. Nearly 10,000 signatures were collected over the Internet in five days. The petitions declare: "This bill is a serious threat to civil liberties, freedom of speech and the right to dance." Look out, Congress: The ravers are coming. "We're offended by the fact they're blackballing an entire musical genre," said Amanda Huie, checking senators' names off her list Tuesday afternoon. The genre in question is electronic dance music, which fans...

<p>Jason Corona lives in California's Mojave Desert, a teenage wasteland if ever there was one.</p> <p>It's a two-hour drive to the nearest rave, which in earlier years might have presented a problem when it came to finding out where the best DJs are spinning records on the hottest dance floors.</p>