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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2008 Stories by Gendy Alimurung

• Undead, Again: Buffy Reunion

  published March 27, 2008

  The students of Sunnydale High’s class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school... More >>

• Those Skinny Britches: Grabbing L.A.'s Thinnest Jeans ...

  published March 13, 2008

  The skinny-jean craze represents the triumph, yet again, of fashion over the human circulatory system. The most intimidating... More >>

• Who Bought Cory Kennedy's Socks?

  published March 13, 2008

  Cory Kennedy’s socks went up for sale on eBay last week. Club denizens, East and West Coast scenesters and many, many... More >>

• When Grim Ghosts Grin

  published March 6, 2008

  On a recent weeknight, fans of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, who normally get together on the DoomBuggies.com Web site, meet face to face in... More >>

• Aquarium Connection: Exotic-Fish Emporium Makes Waves

  published February 28, 2008

  Andrew Bunya-Ananta figures he's had a fishnet in his hand since the womb. Some people know early on they want to be doctors... More >>

• Casablanca on St. Valentine's Day

  published February 21, 2008

  There are too many people in love in Los Angeles. This Valentine's Day, half of them seem to be at the Silent Movie Theatre... More >>

• Hollywood's Magic Castle Goes Adobe for a Day

  published February 21, 2008

  No matter how many degrees in computer science you hold, you will not be able to reverse-engineer the owl that guards the... More >>

• Airborne With the Flyboys of Los Angeles Helicopters

  published February 21, 2008

  When a helicopter's engine fails, the world goes quiet for one sickening, thrilling moment. Your stomach shoots up into your... More >>

• Grammy Hair Talk: Night of the Long Bob

  published February 14, 2008

  Thanks to master stylist Rodney Cutler, who is doing hair at a pre-red-carpet soiree at Smashbox studios the Friday before the Grammys, I can... More >>

• Gonna Party Like It's $19.99

  published February 14, 2008

  There are an extravagant, hedonistic few among us who would rather die before spending anything less than a couple of grand... More >>

• Leonard Nimoy's Heavy Conversation

  published February 7, 2008

  On a brisk Tuesday night, multihyphenate actor-author-photographer- former-Vulcan-neck-gripper Leonard Nimoy is being... More >>

• Swing Time: Gay Ballroom Dancing

  published February 7, 2008

  Ballroom dancing is spectacularly gay, but until recently, it seems, it hasn't been nearly gay enough. What with the twirling... More >>

• Fashion on the Campaign Trail

  published January 31, 2008

  Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the... More >>

• Fatherhood Lessons From Money Guru Robert Kiyosaki

  published January 24, 2008

  As the noonday sun burns off a Thursday morning haze, dads from all over the city gather at the airport Sheraton Gateway for... More >>

• The Insect-Human Duet: A Field Guide

  published January 24, 2008

  Joshua Abarbanel and Jeff Swimmer, authors of the recently released A Field Guide to Household Bugs, sit at a table... More >>

• A Dark and Stormy Night at the Museum

  published January 10, 2008

  The sky throws fistfuls of rain down upon the city. But even the cozy, tempting gloom, suggesting nothing so much as a night curled up in... More >>

• The Summer Glau Chronicles

  published January 17, 2008

  There are many reasons to see Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, not least of which is Summer Glau. Outside... More >>

• What's in the Welcome Hunters Closet?

  published January 17, 2008

  BeaYukMui: Ironic iconography (unicorns, rings, strawberries). Cashmere sweaters, scarves. Giorgio Brato:... More >>

• Welcome Hunters: the Body Eclectic

  published January 17, 2008

  Right now, if you are looking in Los Angeles for cutting-edge, high-end, underground designer clothing from Iceland, you will... More >>

• L.A.’s Queen Gofer Girl

  published January 3, 2008

  The needs of the people of Los Angeles are unending. Dinner reservations must be booked. Prescriptions must be filled. Friends must be shopped... More >>