Zombie Crawl "Thriller" dance will shake up city

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The third annual Zombie Crawl will be Saturday in downtown Youngstown, with 14 bars and establishments participating.

Registration will begin at 2 p.m. at Oak Hill Cemetery and at B&O Station. Participants are asked to donate a minimum of $1 to the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. Registrants will receive a wrist band, which will grant them food and drink specials and a ride on the Zombie Trolley all evening, which will loop to all participating locations.

The Mahoning Valley Historical Society will be at Oak Hill Cemetery with cemetery maps and guided tours of the historical burial ground.

Several makeup artists and GD FX will be on hand at B&O to transform participants into zombies. When all of the participants are in zombie makeup, they will walk together down Federal Street to Central Square, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

At 7 p.m. at Central Square, the Thrill the World dance will be performed by a group of dancers. It’s part of a simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, aimed at getting included in Guinness World Records

After the walk, the following downtown-area bars and restaurants will offer drink and food specials all night for participants:

The Royal Oaks, Cassese’s MVR, Cafe Cimmento, Dooney’s Downtown Grill, Club 9INE, V2 Wine Bar and Trattoria, Old Precinct, The Lemon Grove, The Draught House, Imbibe, O’Donold’s, Cedars, the Youngstown Maennerchor and the Calvin Center (for Rustbelt Theater Company’s Zombie Prom).