K-town’s underground tapas scene is like visiting the future – if, in the future, everyone speaks Korean and hangs out in hazy dive bars known for spicy late night kimchi and ass-flooring dragon juice.

Straight out from some steampunk chapter of Bladerunner’s Los Angeles, DGM (Korean for “Back Alley”) is the kind of dig where you can share a pitcher of beer, smoke a cigarette (yes, you can smoke there) and wait for your memory-dealer to show up with a mechanized stripper with a fake snake. Or not.

You won’t find the painfully hip or rich clanking glasses in this charming speak-easy with scribble etched wooden walls and red-faced Korean’s surprised that you’ve stumbled upon one of L.A.’s best nocturnal secrets.

Don’t expect watered-down Americanized K-cuisine here. Don’t make the mistake of asking for a menu in English either. They don’t have them. And if that bothers you, travel to the future somewhere else.

DwitGolMok (DGM)

3101 W 8th St
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Neighborhood: Koreatown

(213) 388-0067

If you didn’t snag a ticket in time for The Do LaB’s last L.A. Warehouse party, maybe you should buy your tickets earlier. Like now. Because if the Do LaB’s history of selling out the sickest parties in town weeks ahead of time is true, then you might already be too late.

On Thursday, November 12th @ the King King, the Do LaB is set to present Bluetech, Mimosa and Electric Dandelion.

We’ll post more info as the party draws closer in Teleportdoor’s space-time continuum. If it’s anything like their presentation of The Beats Antique, you’re in for a show. It may have been stone-cold sold-out, but inside it was nothing but hot.

Are you the Anti-Christ and feel like you have have no one to celebrate the fruits of your labor with? Do you just want to starfuck the Anti-Christ?

Don’t like the idea of spending your final moments on the couch with your gas mask on watching Anderson Cooper have an orgy with all his CNN staffers?

We have a final solution: The Official Apocalypse Dinner Party.

You know, the sicker, hipper version of your typical Hollywoodesque Halloween dinner party. Some of the Teleportdoor staff got together over the weekend and threw a little one of these Apocalyptic-themed get-togethers.  We posted the carnage below.

The city has a shadow. Not an underside, but an Otherside. A Shadowground crisscrossed by phantom alleyways that twist between the no-longer, the never-ever and the farthest reaches of your imaginings. The dwellers here are myths and legends, only real to dreamers, only found when lost. Only in such a place can broken toys come to life. Only in such a place do marionettes come to wander…

I know what you’re thinking. Geez, this sounds a lot like that Laura Branigan “Self Control” video. I need to buy a ticket to that dark, sexy shit A.S.A.P.

We know you do. And that’s why deadstarlet is setting the space-time coordinates to her teleportation device for Boardners in Hollywood tonight – where the deliciously dramatic and dark Wandering Marionettes will be performing their Kabinet Theater once again.

With their dance macabre, stilting, juggling, acrobatics, and really creepy white masks, the Wandering Marionettes may look like real puppets brought to life by an evil Italian toy maker. But, don’t fret, they are actually are one of L.A.’s most celebrated circus-freak performance art troupes, who have worked with the likes of Cirque Du Soliel, Cirque Berzerk, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, The Do Lab, Labyrinth of Jareth, Electric Daisy Carnival (LA), and Burning Man.

And it only costs $15 bucks to spend the night in their dark embrace.

Oh, yes. The ghost of Laura Branigan will be so jealous.

Music provided by Pumpkin (downtempo/dub-tech-house) and Andrew Orbit (trip-hop-dub-downtempo).

Buy your ticket here.

Wandering Marionettes presents Kabinet Theatre

Thursday, October 22nd 10pm – 2am

Minimum Age for event: 21 and over
Ticket Price: $15.00 * Plus $2.60 Processing Service Fee

Location Address:
Boardners
1652 N. Cherokee Ave
Hollywood CA 90028

Minimum Age for event: 21 and over
Presented by: The Do LaB Presents 
Ticket Price: $15.00 * Plus $1.60 Processing Service Fee

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Known for resurrecting dead and buried stars and starlets during their summer film screenings, the Hollywood Forever Cememery is also in the business of resurrecting the rest of us stiffs. Well, at least this Saturday they are.

In only a production worthy of it’s Hollywood location, the Cemetery’s Dia De Los Muertos features dramatic processions, vibrant cultural performances, musical productions, elaborate costumes and an altar contest. Yes, an altar contest. Because the dead like their altars and their trendy Hollywood parties.

Okay, so the plot kind of sounds like a cross between Death Becomes Her and a Romero flick. And maybe the colors are too bright for some of our gothier Halloween sensibilities, but according to the event’s website: The Day of the Dead is an ancient and enduring ritual when the living commune with the dead – a mystical night when the veil is lifted between their two realms and they may share a day together.

That’s pretty cool. And I do have a few questions for Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawkings. Wait, maybe Hawkings just looks dead. How the hell did he outlive Sagan?! Would the ghost of Carl Sagan even be caught dead in Hollywood?

I guess I’ll find out this Saturday.

L.A. Day of the Dead - Saturday 10.24.09- 4pm-11pm

General Admission: $10

Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Leave it to Culver City’s adorably naughty Japanese-style cosplay café, ROYAL/T, to be the first North American venue to purr like a kitty.

The “Three Apples” Exhibition: Celebrating 35 Years of Hello Kitty will meow-off this FRIDAY, Oct. 23rd. That’s right; Hello Kitty is a Gen-Xer. And like any good Gen-Xer, she knows how to throw a birthday party.

Curated by JapanLA, 80 artists will take on Hello Kitty in everything from paint to fiberglass to a super secret interactive theme park. The proceeds made by the artists’ work will go to the charity L.A. Works.

If an art show isn’t kittycore enough for you, then show up on SATURDAY, Oct. 24th, for The Hello Kitty Fan Party.  The head Hello Kitty designer fresh from Tokoyo, Kitty Mama’ Yuko Yamaguchi, & tokidoki creator, Simone Legno will be giving a special signing. After you drool all over the creators, you can participate in artist workshops, nibble on Kitty sushi, drink Kitty cocktails, and sing Kitty Karaoke. Free goody bags for the first 100 visitors.

But . . . if that’s still not enough Sanrio kitten porn (you cute little freak), ROYAL/T will be hosting several insane Hello Kitty Parties over the course of the next THREE WEEKS, including a Halloween party, a Goth Party and a Hello Kitty Birthday Party.

If that doesn’t make you feel like a Sanrio character on steroids, then you should just move to Japan.

ROYAL/T

8910 Washington Blvd.,

Culver City, CA 90232.

This fall’s Affaire in the Gardens Art Show celebrates one of Los Angeles’ most precious and upscale resources: water. I guess they want to keep their professionally landscaped lawns that bright green color. And you should come and enjoy it. It’s FREE. And it’s certainly prettier than Chinatown.

For those of you that know the beauty of a community art show, Affaire in the Gardens shouldn’t be missed. The show features over 200 artists, a wine garden, live music, local cuisine, art demonstrations, local celebrities, art collectors, and the kind of chic sunshine and flora that only Beverly Hills can buy.

 So, turn off your TiVo’s and spend your weekend outdoors for a change, rubbing elbows with Los Angeles’ richer, prettier half.

Affaire in The Gardens

Santa Monica Blvd. between Rodeo Dr. and Rexford Dr.

Beverly Hills, CA  90210

October 17th & 18th

10am-5pm

If you’re post-Pop and all Pop Surrealism (or your date is), may I suggest you take a gander at La Luz de Jesus Gallery’s latest show featuring artists John Puglisi and Mitch O’Connell (October 2^nd-31^st).

O’Connell, one of Chicago’s most treasured illustrators and well-know lowbrow artists, is all brand names and cheer as he perverts pop art with his cartoony and disturbingly cute style in his collection “Pre-engagement Ring.” He’s got Marilyn, Jane Mansfield and adorable woodland creatures. He’s even got a salt’n pepper shaker that resembles a dildo. Or maybe that’s just me.

La Luz is a hybrid between a historic, groundbreaking art gallery and eclectic gift shop, where you can buy anything from Alien action figures to special edition art books to sushi-themed shower curtains to an original Mark Ryden or Nathan Ota.

La Luz de Jesus Gallery

4633 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone 323-666-7667 Fax 323-663-0243
800-YRU-POOP