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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2007 Stories by Gendy Alimurung

• Oh, Christmas Tree!

  published December 27, 2007

  By the time the season’s Christmas trees have been hacked into mulch, an age-old battle will have been fought on tree yards across the... More >>

• In the Eco Chamber

  published December 20, 2007

  It is a sunny Saturday outside the Eco Gift Expo at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Vendors, who had to write essays describing why they are... More >>

• Beautiful Mutants in a Plastic World

  published December 13, 2007

  Let’s say you kidnapped some small animals — bears, hamsters, rabbits, dogs, tigers or whatever — and left them stranded on... More >>

• Ozzy Sells Out

  published December 6, 2007

  There goes Sharon Osbourne’s wig. And Ozzy Osbourne’s bathrobe. A knee-length vampire take on the Little Black Dress once worn by... More >>

• The Mall Is His Classroom

  published November 29, 2007

  To most of us, a mall is just a mall, but to film-studies instructor Danny Sussman, it is a Rosetta stone rife with hidden meaning, a... More >>

• Some UTA Online All-Stars

  published November 15, 2007

  Comedy shorts and parodies by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg, now of Saturday Night Live fame. Hits include “Lazy... More >>

• Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geek

  published November 15, 2007

  Until a year ago, none of the Hollywood agencies had divisions devoted exclusively to mining and developing the Web for talent. And everybody... More >>

• Game Over

  published October 4, 2007

  No matter how you work out the endgame in your head, humans are destined for extinction: Apocalypse is built in to the human condition.... More >>

• Sole Survivors

  published October 4, 2007

  Imelda Marcos swindled her country, married a dictator, participated in mass government corruption, encouraged decades of political repression,... More >>

• She... Had to Leave...

  published October 4, 2007

  They say you can’t go home again, but sometimes you have to. Especially if you’re trying to escape L.A. My hometown is... More >>

• Queens of the New Ice Age

  published October 4, 2007

  When Hell freezes over, you can at least go figure skating. Who doesn’t love the drama, the death-defying physics, the impossible gravity... More >>

• Best Extinction Experts

  published October 4, 2007

  Dinosaurs may be extinct, but the final word on their demise has yet to be written. Did the asteroid kill them? Or was it simply the last... More >>

• Best Last Dances

  published October 4, 2007

  They danced on the deck of the Titanic, the doomed passengers, even as the mighty ship went down amid icebergs, their would-be saviors... More >>

• It's Not Just Lunch!

  published September 27, 2007

  You know how it is. Some programmer geeks sneak into a corporate cafeteria to eat free food and meet other programmer geeks. Then those geeks... More >>

• Day for Night

  published August 23, 2007

  A sweaty and irritable 6-year-old girl, in line for Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, asks, “Mommy, why is everybody... More >>

• Harper by Oldham

  published July 19, 2007

  Designer Todd Oldham was rooting around in a thrift store when he came upon a set of dusty old songbird prints. Each bird was playfully,... More >>

• Buffy the Vampire Singer

  published July 12, 2007

  At the “Buffy Musical Big Screen Extravaganza” at the Crest Theater in Westwood, I sat next to a guy named Mike, who knew, by... More >>

• Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

  published June 7, 2007

  One of the best and worst parts of having parents who are both doctors is the stories they tell. From my mother and father, a dermatologist and... More >>

• The Bookish Set

  published May 17, 2007

  Like Darwin’s finches, the booksellers of Los Angeles have found niches and creative ways to stay alive in a tough business and an even... More >>

• Put Heading Here

  published May 3, 2007

  GO ˇASK A MEXICAN!OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano reads from his hilarious column, “ˇAsk a Mexican!” — now a book, comi... More >>

• Christmas in April

  published April 26, 2007

  A novelist friend once told me that the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is like Christmas for him, and that he looks forward to it all year... More >>

• T.C. Boyle, Aimee Liu, Barry Glassner

  published April 12, 2007

  {mosimage} He lives and writes in Santa Barbara, but there is no more quintessentially “L.A.” novelist than T.C. Boyle, whose iconoclastic oeuv... More >>

• What Makes Zoey Run?

  published April 5, 2007

  The fastest hamster on L.A.’s Westside runs a distance of eight feet in under 15 seconds, which is, comparatively speaking, just a couple o... More >>

• When Clowns Attack

  published April 5, 2007

  {mosimage} Everything is going wrong for girl detective Judy Drood. First her car breaks down outside the... More >>

• Jodi Picoult, Ishmael Beah

  published March 29, 2007

  {mosimage} This is a week for kids with guns. In Jodi Picoult’s new novel, Nineteen Minutes, Peter Houghton, a 17-year-old who get... More >>