<div class="quote">Woodstock, Halloween night, 2008. The town&#8217;s main streets, a quaint cluster of earthy boutiques and caf&#233;s, are closed to traffic, allowing the teenagers of the Catskills to take part in an annual tradition known as the Shaving Cream Rave. With dance music pumping from massive speakers, kids gather at the triangle where Tinker Street merges with Rock City Road, impish grins on their faces and cheap metallic cans of shaving cream in hand. Then chaos: shaving cream shooting into the air, covering the streets, slathered and slapped on bodies, rendering all costumes unrecognizable, obsolete.<br /></div> <div><br /></div> David Amsden | NY Magazine david amsden, ny mag, benefit album, killian mansfield, catskills, dr. john, lovin spoonful the-feed 0 2009-10-21T17:38:59-04:00 <p>How a dying teen's wish turned into an all-star album.</p> 1 6224 the-case-of-killian-mansfield 2009-10-22T09:35:43-04:00 true false false false false 2009-10-22T09:35:43-04:00 http://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/60127/ 84 0