ANIMALIQUE is both the inner sanctum and ritz of the club and the seedy darkness of its parking lot; the velvet curtains and zebra banquettes, and the backseat of a 1957 Ford Thunderbird & smoking in the boys room; the lounge singer and the greaser; a Vintage Martini Bar put together just for this party; the chandelier’s glow and Weegee’s camera flash; love scenes and crime scenes; smoke and snake dancers and a pencil mustache and rock ‘n’ roll and birdcages and film-noir fantasies and El Morocco celebrities and a big dazzling light-studded ornamental ball that drops as 2023 explodes into 2024. Posh at twilight & nasty by sunrise.