instead of listening to the woman-beater

THE ORIGINAL IS WAAY BETTER - KIM MORRELL !!!

ALSO NGUZU SIKKKK CIARA DEUCES REMIX

YOU HAVE OPTIONS PEOPLE

tonight wednesday

GROWN DINING ROOM is a live food installation, and latest collaboration with TOTAL FREEDOM. featuring resident community leader SONJI KIMMONS (The Other Side) killing it on grand piano. this month DINING ROOM is declaring itself officially a non profit venture, which basically means that your experience = flavor experimentation + high quality ingredients at cost.

"It's the talk of Los Angeles and beyond." - Vaginal Davis (read more)

FOOD SERVICE FROM 9PM - 1AM

DINNER HOUSE M
1263 W TEMPLE 90026
http://grownnight.com

NOVEMBER MENU

2 PORK SLIDERS WITH PICKLED GREEN TOMATOES

SPICY FRIED GREEN BEANS WITH BLACK SESAME MAYO

MARKET FRIED RICE WITH CHAR SUI BRAISED CHICKEN THIGHS

NIKUJAGA (JAPANESE HOMESTYLE BEEF STEW) WITH SAKE TARRAGON FINGERLINGS

OPEN FACE BURRATA MARGARITA SUB

WITH TOMATO CONFIT AND SPICY TURKEY SAUSAGE

THE FALL-WINTER "TEXAS DONUT"

HANDMADE DONUTS, HANDMADE PERSIMMON ICE CREAM

A LA CARTE $5, PAIR ANY 2 $9

anyone can do it

ha ha this is exactly what mustache 3-yr anniversary felt like when diplo showed up ;) THAT GIRL  definitely on a mission

photos at BDP

i have an old favorite trick i want to share w you...

TURN YA COAT UPSIDE DOWNNNNNNNNNNN

anyone can do it!!! 

it works really well with just about anything

get the mustache 3yr mixes here:

JOSH PEACE

TOTAL FREEDOM http://www.box.net/shared/norla0p3y0

tonight mustache 3-year anniversary!!! feat diplo

mustache turns 3 tonight!!!

this family spot is so super important to my heart & los angeles in general

SEE YOUR DER

what now

ahem THESE are the perfect height of the ankle (at the ankle) for now. thank you andrea white! and rick owens.

so undercover cops have been hanging around Dinner House M and everyone is on high alert. apparently micki (the owner) got arrested last weekend, although she's not in jail and doing ok. we postponed dining room this week cause i was sickkk (STD NOV 17!!) but also ashland is warning me now there's a chance we may not go on much longer.

a couple of weeks ago, during GROWN DINING ROOM a friend of mine, who is a queer woman of color (API/latina) joked with me, "so i see you traded the mexicans for the asians!" i guess i could see the humor for a person of her particular mixed ethnicities, but it also really hit a nerve- an old wildness nerve. a sensitivity to people making light of a very loaded dynamic between young party throwers/goers and the native proprietor/scene. a very fragile dynamic, that walks the line between building safe meaningful community spaces and just like... LAND USAGE. it's hard to articulate without over-simplifying - but it's at the heart of making damelo todo.

around the time that the LA weekly article came out about wildness, we all felt a very real fear and responsibility about whether it was going to do "damage" to the safety of the silver platter. as the story goes... was wildness going to destroy the thing it loved most? that FEAR is the realest thing, and the only thing i know for sure. it's hard to say, after the article came out, were there more obnxoious gawking tourists? were more women getting arrested and deported? would that make us at fault? i actually had a yelling confrontation with the journalist months later, when we met in a cafe in silverlake. i accused him of everything. i was haunted by the lurking fear of not knowing what our "impact" was. i felt guilty, responsible, powerless. 

those feelings now are the realest thing to me as i edit the movie. trying to trace, in a really critical way, where do those feelings really come from, and to what end?

nicol says something in her interview, which i think is theee most brilliant insightful thing of the entire movie. she says:

"what [the journlist] saw, is what the Silver Platter is.
it is not what his mind dictated afterward that he wrote."

i feel profoundly affected by how much this idea translates across the board to everyone, and particularly implicates the film. the bar is a PLACE. it is a physical location that draws people together. but what it means, we can only grasp at what it means beyond ourselves. so in that sense, the movie is no more what the bar is than sam slovick's stupid article. it is what my mind dictates it to be, and that's it. and i guess that's a lot. to me. ;)

 (me & nicol, more rick owens)

ryan trecartin for W magazine (aka the origin of the microbraids)

(above: lizzie fitch, veronica gelbaum, telfar clemens, total freedom)

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