They came sporting leather corsets, ripped stockings, glittery top hats, kilts and the occasional tuxedo — a horde of unabashed freaks stretching for blocks down Glenwood Avenue at midnight, gathered for a raucous, giddy, semi-naughty vigil.
For decades, the more adventurous and off-kilter night owls in Raleigh found shelter in the darkness of the Rialto Theater, which has screened the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” more or less continuously since the late 1970s, enough that the longtime projectionist Peri boasts of seeing it “north of 1,000 times.”
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