Email Author Gendy Alimurung

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published June 16, 2011

  "Bad Lunch"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  "Parents, Be Very Nervous"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  "Coming (Back) to America"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  "Interview with a Corpse"

• 2012 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 12, 2012

  "The Death of Film"

• 2012 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Never Grow Up"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published March 11, 2010

  "The Fight of His Life"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "The Man Who Wants Another 'Life'"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 22, 2010

  "Maggots and Aliens and Clowns, Oh My"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2010

  "Giddyup"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 11, 2010

  "The Fight of His Life"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Man on Man"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 17, 2009

  "Man on Man"

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2013 Stories by Gendy Alimurung

• Heather Taylor: Culver City Gallerist and Lifestyle Maven

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. To gallery owner, blogger, fashionista, lifestyle maven and all-around It gi... More >>

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  Tony Dominguez: The Pinata King

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. The piñata king likes big. His royal highness, known in less formal c... More >>

• Janice Min: The Hollywood Reporter's Editor

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.You can divide the timeline of L.A.'s venerable industry rag The Hollywood Re... More >>

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  Mapping L.A., Using the World's Most Sophisticated Volkswagen Jetta

  published May 09, 2013

  Parked at the Grove's Farmers Market is a Volkswagen Jetta that costs more than a Lamborghini -- $250,000, to be exact. The Volkswagen is one of only two such cars in Los Angeles at the moment, and on... More >>

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  The World's Fastest Fingernail Sculptors Competed in Pasadena. Then Things Got Ugly...

  published May 02, 2013

  See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Top 10 Weirdest Stores in L.A. *10 Best Vintage and Second-Hand Boutiques in L.A. At the competition to determine the World's Fastest Set of Acryli... More >>

• Santa Monica Joggers Pay Tribute to Boston Marathon Victims

  published Apr 25, 2013

  See also: *A Celebration of Boston, in a Santa Monica Bar To the young men who bombed the Boston Marathon: You picked the wrong people to fuck with. Or so say the members of the Los Angeles Speed Pr... More >>

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  Colin Dickey Will Help You Get Rid of Your Stuff...By Bringing It to the Arctic

  published Apr 18, 2013

  See also: *D3, an Artist Collective That Will Destroy the '90s Mixtape Your Ex-Boyfriend Made You *Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament When writer Colin Di... More >>

• This Bestselling Author Writes About Sex, Dead Bodies and the Esophagus

  published Mar 28, 2013

  See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament When organizers of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum's First Fridays series asked the public what sorts of programming it wanted to see, peo... More >>

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  How Normand Latourelle Turned His Bizarre Dreams About Horses Into a $30 Million Spectacle

  published Mar 07, 2013

  Normand Latourelle dreams about horses. Such dreams are appropriate because Latourelle is the creator of the touring shows Cavalia and Odysseo, which, for lack of a better description, have been call... More >>

• At This West Hollywood Fashion Library, the Prada Dress You Rent Could Save Your Life

  published Feb 28, 2013

  To its founder, Los Angeles' first fashion library is less a closet than a medicine cabinet. Shaye McKenney started the Fashion Athenaeum last year in a small square of donated gallery space on Fairf... More >>

• The Search for Jumbo Squid in Southern California

  published Feb 21, 2013

  See also: *Living on Mars Time: What If Your Day Lasted 24 Hours, 39 Minutes and 35 Secondsr *Lily Simonson's Paintings of Yeti Crabs and Other Creatures Merge Art and Oceanography Once a year, or may... More >>

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  How a USC Film Student Tried to Get Bill Murray to Star in His Film -- By Creating a Bill Murray Holiday

  published Feb 14, 2013

  See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Bill Murray Appreciation Day Slideshow *Our Report on Bill Murray Appreciation Day Christopher Guerrero, a 27-year-old USC grad student, wrote one of th... More >>

• Dale Vaughn and Elizabeth Menzel: He Runs a Men's Group. She Runs a Women's Group. And It's Bliss

  published Feb 06, 2013

  *Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here Dale Vaughn, leader of men, and Elizabeth Menzel, leader of women, met playing beach volleyball. Vaughn is the founder of the NextGent men's self-accou... More >>

• Bill Murray Appreciation Day

  published Feb 04, 2013

  See also: *Slideshow -- Bill Murray Appreciation Day The first Los Angeles Bill Murray Appreciation Day, or BMAD, happened this past weekend on a cold, drizzly Saturday evening. (Saturday was also... More >>

• Artist Neto Velasco's Tattoos and Stencils Tell the Story of His Life

  published Jan 17, 2013

  Neto Velasco came to Los Angeles to make his mark, but the city also made its mark on him. He arrived from the Mexican town of Querétaro a year ago. "I had a really good life in Mexico, but I p... More >>