Email Author Gendy Alimurung

Awards

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

  "Bad Lunch"

• 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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2008 Stories by Gendy Alimurung

• Greenwashed and Dyed: Nori's Eco Salon

  published July 31, 2008

  Though it’s surely not a record to be held for long, Nori’s Eco Salon in Encino is the only full-service green... More >>

• At L.A.'s E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Games

  published July 24, 2008

  Bloodlust is everywhere at the E3 gaming-business summit — bloodlust and nerds. Over in the Los Angeles Convention... More >>

• The Plush Life of Food: A Collector's Story

  published July 17, 2008

  The doughnuts were first. A dozen of them appeared on Sarah Jo Marks’ dining room table one afternoon. They stared at... More >>

• Bees, Bees, Llamas & Squirrel Dioramas

  published Jul 07, 2008

  Artist Kyle Ng's exhibit "We Hear It All" is ongoing at FLUX in Venice until July 18. He's done up the space into a "pop-up natural history museum" with taxidermy dioramas, animal sculptures, bee arti... More >>

• Zen and the Art of Cougar Hunting

  published July 3, 2008

  They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands... More >>

• Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio

  published June 26, 2008

  Bozo the Clown’s shoes, big as canoe paddles, sit on a shelf in Pasquale Fabrizio’s shop on San Vicente... More >>

• Hot Topic? At Hollywood & Highland, Perez Hilton Unveils His New Fashion Line

  published June 12, 2008

  Perez Hilton, rumormonger, blogger and creative force behind PerezHilton.com, a.k.a. “Hollywood’s most-hated Web... More >>

• More Books Than You Can Shake A Dead Indie Bookstore At

  published Jun 04, 2008

  The Book Expo America convention has come and gone. Here are 12 things I saw on the last day, in absolutely no order whatsoever. 1. The Independent Publishers Group Alley Standing strong! 2. Se... More >>

• Sunny and Mild: Getting to Know Our Fair-Weather Friends of Local News

  published June 5, 2008

  Weathercasters in Los Angeles take a lot of flack. How tough a job can it be when every day here seems to be 72 degrees and... More >>

• Mark Mothersbaugh: On the Cutting Edge of Designer-Wallpaper Chic

  published June 5, 2008

  "The whales are great, have always been great,” sales clerk Matthew Stovall is saying, rather poetically. “The... More >>

• Mark Sarvas on His Elegant Variation and the Inelegant Review of Harry, Revised

  published June 5, 2008

  Mark Sarvas, the unwitting bad-boy blogger of the popular lit blog The Elegant Variation, is doing his part to keep the novel... More >>

• The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

  published May 30, 2008

  Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massive spectacle ones, should be inclusionary rathe... More >>

• Get Your Book On: Book Expo America 2008

  published May 29, 2008

  It was so deserted at the Book Expo America at the Convention Center today, I was beginning to despair about the state of the book industry. But it turns out I showed up a day early. I was not the o... More >>

• Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

  published May 23, 2008

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• Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Mecca

  published May 22, 2008

  If you eliminate all the narrative meaning from Disneyland, or even Knott’s Berry Farm, you end up with something like... More >>

• A Cook's Garden

  published May 8, 2008

  Once you drive the winding roads to Marta Teegen’s house in Mount Washington, it’s easy to shake the city off.... More >>

• Chihuahua Crazy

  published May 1, 2008

  Consider the Chihuahua. Small. Fast. Insane. A rough estimate reveals that there are, oh, say, a billion of them here on this hot, hot... More >>

• Little Tokyo's Cheap Thrills

  published May 1, 2008

  The voyage to Little Tokyo so often begins with a craving for ramen and ends with (best-case scenario) a souvenir maneki... More >>

• First Cut: Big Fish Compete at SushiMasters

  published April 24, 2008

  At Sunday’s SushiMasters competition for the city’s top sushi chef, taiko drums herald the arrival of... More >>

• Rescue Me: How to Save a Cat

  published April 17, 2008

  “Do you want a cat?” the e-mail read. I’d sent this message out, en masse, asking people if they would... More >>

• Would You Woodr

  published Apr 10, 2008

  How do you feel about wall artr I have conflicted feelings about decorative stuff on walls. It's so easy to get sick of posters, even if they're neatly framed. Paintings, a.k.a. Fine Art Capital F Cap... More >>

• Miss Hooker's Tricks Aren’t for Kids

  published April 10, 2008

  The title of Miss Hooker 2008 went up for grabs last week. The beauty pageant of the damned took place at the Dragonfly nightclub on Santa... More >>

• Slasher Flicks: Fencing

  published April 10, 2008

  You will pine for the raconteur days of Cyrano and d’Artagnan the moment you set trembling foot within the Los Angeles... More >>

• Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

  published April 3, 2008

  On a sunny afternoon in Costa Mesa, Cassie Parmenter and a legion of girls are singing “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”... More >>

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos

  published Mar 28, 2008

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