Want in at the Bay Area's hottest dance party? You'll need to bring a baby
OAKLAND, Calif. - Stuffed animals are forbidden at Coachella, and the Electric Daisy Carnival prohibits pacifiers. But the WubbaNub - a mashup of the two comfort objects - is the hot dance party accessory among the newest club kids in the Bay Area.
Teal pacifiers festooned with tiny elephants, whales and unicorns were conspicuous in the crowd of 150-plus revelers who filled a commercial building in the rapidly gentrifying Temescal neighborhood of North Oakland on a summer Sunday. Attendees were jumping, twirling, and throwing the occasional tantrum in the fenced-off "rolling zone," where fellow partyers lie on their backs, staring at the lights in the dark.
Anything goes at Baby Rave, the Bay Area's wildly popular daytime dance party for children under 4. Although it's never advertised, the monthly soiree sells out in minutes. Now
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