Las Vegas Fantasy and Halloween Ball
2009 | 10:29 pm
Erik von Gutenberg recommends the Fetish Ball in Las Vegas!
To say it’s getting better all the time would be an understatement! Back in March the promoter called to thank me for covering the events for BIZARRE and TRANSFORMATION magazines. Right away I could tell something was up and he confirmed my feelings when he told me for the last few years he was trying to book his world famous Sin City Halloween bash to the landmark shrine to rock and roll the famous Hard Rock Hotel. Where the lives of our beloved rock gods and goddesses present and past are memorialized and honored!
Oh what a night this was and the anticipation was heart palpitating because everyone could feel that this was going to be an All Hollow’s Eve bash like no other. Keep in mind this bash has been named as, “ONE OF THE TOP TEN EVENTS IN THE WORLD†by the TRAVEL CHANNEL and “ONE OF FIVE EVENTS YOU WANT TO ATTEND BEFORE YOU DIE†by MAXIM Magazine!
To give you a clue there were tickets being sold on the Internet and the ball was being billed as the “Flesh and Fantasy Halloween Ballâ€. Now if you were there then you would understand why!! Hell, hi-heel, hi-heel Hell-O!! Maybe that was why I was singing a few lines from a jingly stripper anthem calledâ€Knockers Upâ€!!
Knockers up, knockers up for kinked out mistresses, subie sluts, bar whores, sado sluts in Nazi regalia and more! There were burnt out camera batteries everywhere as all night it was a major boob and flesh parade!
Amazing costumes that had to be seen to believe and every where in the Hard Rock that night it was a like a never ending kinked out kinky-verlinky fetish fashion show and the Hard Rock was the red carpeted catwalk.
Needless to say my face was tired from smiling so much! Now to fill you in this year I rolled in with an entourage of friends old and new! We were an amazing photo-op special mélange of true lifestyle pervos who I now refer to as the “Triple F-Squad En-Femmeâ€. And that breaks down to Fantasy, Fashion and of course, FUN!
Most everyone has heard of the ever-popular dynamic dom-fetish duo Nicole Lashes and Mistress LeeAntasyKink from San Diego.
They are on the scene here there and everywhere dressed to the sixty-nines in the mistresses custom latex creations. And I had the pleasure of watching her lay out and create on her work table the fabulous outfits she and Nicole wore that night. We had the world renowned pro dom Mistress Lace along with her devoted trans-subie hubby Doreen who ended up getting her PVC covered ass spanked more than a few times by LeeAnntasy Kink!
As soon as we exited the limo I heard Cicci start singing, “We’re cumming up so let’s get the party started nah, na, na nah!. Right away I spot my longtime eye on fetish photo pal Gerry “Fucking†Koehler and I do a three-sixty around him and exclaim, “It’s Alive, it’s alive†and then David Jackson from DDI appears as if Scottie had beamed him down.
They melt away as Mistress Precious waves at them and they are off to take photos. HELL-OH! Now once we entered the main ball room it was total mayhem so we checked out the action in The Joint and found a table for VIP’s waiting! Right away I started taking photos for TRANSFORMATION magazine and meeting gender-benders and admirers of all sorts and persuasions. I would be remiss if I did not do a name drop here as more than a few high profile kinksters were on the scene.
During the what seemed to be a never ending evening I met up with Alexia Jordon, the Insatiable Amazon, Kyra von Kropp, Mistress Nicole, Jordan, Mistress Goddess Soma with her submissive Sybil, Mistress Skye, Switch Spanky along with my lifelong Hell-A scene gal pal Mistress Aves.
Now I could write a book here but what I suggest is that when you are done here log on to http://www.halloweenball.com/ and look for the
photo galleries by Dave! I am sure you will be amazed, mesmerized, entertained and thrilled when you see the hundreds and hundreds of images posted. And I will tell you that if you missed this party the good news is that plans are already being made for the 15th Annual Las Vegas Fetish & Fantasy Halloween Ball! SEE YOU THERE!
by Marlayna Lacie
Erik von Gutenberg
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Later that year, of course, the long-despised symbol of world-wide Communist dictatorship – the very concrete tumor that for nearly thirty years had separated and plagued one of Europe’s great ancient capitals into “Western†and “Eastern†Zones – came crashing down. A common, great but twice-vanquished people, separated by artificially-created ideological borders, collectively stood up, and in a singular voice cried, “No more!†Those of us who grew up in the 1970’s never thought we would see West and East Germany reunite in our lifetime – let alone the entire final rotting and disintegration of Eastern Europe’s totalitarian regimes.
It’s simple, really. The year Nineteen-Hundred-and-Eighty-Nine was a year of great turmoil to be sure – but it was also a year of great hope and unrequited optimism. There was a spirit of change in the air, and people were eager to embrace the coming end-of-millennium decade of the 1990’s with a renewed spirit of ambition and promise. From 1989 to 2009, countless fetish events have come and almost all of them have gone. Even some famous institutions of alternative lifestyle “expressions†that promised to “stand the test of time†in the 1970’s and 1980’s – ultimately disappeared from the fetish map. All, that is, except one.
Your Humble Narrator has focused a lot of attention in the past few weeks on Northbound Leather and their various efforts – and quite deservedly so. In February 2010, right around the same time Canada is getting set to host the Winter World during the Vancouver 2010 Olympiad, George Giaouris and his staff at Northbound Leather will be celebrating the “official” 20th Anniversary of their monthly fetish event, all this time simply referred to as the “Northbound Fetish Nightâ€, in downtown Toronto. There is no other event (that I could find, at least) that has been routinely scheduled and executed meticulously and faithfully, once a month, for 20 straight years. Sure, the venues for Northbound’s monthly gyrating shindig have changed – but the party remains the same and continues to roll ever stronger as it enters its third decade of existence. This is quite an accomplishment for a company that began as a small little leather shop, in Greece no less, over 40 years ago.
Thirteen years ago, Northbound Leather made a decision to organize and host a Fetish party on a grand and unprecedented scale (at least for North America). Deciding from the outset to give each annual event a unique and somewhat unusual theme and name (“Thrustâ€, “Decadenceâ€, Bentoâ€, “X-Poseâ€, etc.), the annual event has become by far, and as previously reported, the single largest gathering of fetish folk under a single roof anywhere in the world. This year’s massive event, given the moniker and theme of TRIBE, simply had to be the ultimate, spectacular culmination of twenty years of unprecedented excellence provided to North America’s fetish populace in the way of both actual “productâ€, and “atmosphereâ€.
I say “in character”, because although the choreographer (whom I’ll spare naming) may have acted a little too much like a diva from some reports, this particular stage show had simply … everything. Astounding, one of a kind leather costumes and pieces, all made from Northbound Leather’s industrious facility (located onsite, by the way, in case you’re curious) and all from the minds of head designer Marty Rotman and the enthusiastic staff at Northbound, paraded in a mind-bending array of music, sight and sound; intricately woven into a storyline that followed a young man’s “Initiation Ritual” into the “Chosen TRIBE”. Lady Victoria Windsor, another one of the exceptional Dominas who calls Toronto home, held court as only she could do – and the overall effect was intoxicating. 
There was a huge Dungeon playspace set up on the second floor of the establishment, and another directly below it on the main floor. Lady Viktoria (not to be confused with the aforementioned Lady Victoria Windsor), another well-known Toronto Domina, and her staff – especially Master Jack and Sir Thomas from Toronto – are to be commended, admired and appreciated for keeping a huge amount of eager SM participants enthralled, satiated and indeed, respectful for several hours.
Thus marks the “end” of Northbound Leather’s twenty-year odyssey in staging and hosting what truly is the biggest, the baddest, and without a doubt the best massive fetish lifestyle event on the planet. TRIBE was a triumph and an emotionally crippling, satisfying and truly magical experience. It was the perfect epilogue to the story of Northbound Leather’s first twenty years of excellence in event hosting – and a titillating prologue to the next twenty years.