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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2012 Stories by Gendy Alimurung

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  COVER STORY

  How Kevin Eastman Invented the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  published December 27, 2012

  Kevin Eastman was 21 when he created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He's 50 now, and the Turtles are still around. The past three decades... More >>

• Motoi Yamamoto Returns His Salt Artwork to the Sea

  published Dec 20, 2012

  Motoi Yamamoto couldn't be there for the last day of his exhibit, "Return to the Sea." The show, at Loyola Marymount University's Laband Gallery, consists primarily of one large installation, Floating... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Many Animals You See on Film and TV Are Taxidermied. Here's Where Hollywood Gets Them

  published Dec 13, 2012

  "No animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture," the famous disclaimer goes. None, it ought to say, unless you count the ones that were dead to begin with. When a role is too dangerous o... More >>

• Tom Van Sant, the Grandfather of Modern Kite Making

  published Nov 29, 2012

  Sculptor Tom Van Sant went to go fly a kite the other day. It was a windy day, and he had a big kite — an 800-foot-long kite, to be specific. Van Sant calls this particular kite Jacob's Ladder, ... More >>

• Inside the Mainstream Cat Media

  published Nov 21, 2012

  When professional cat writers get together, certain conventions of the English language go out the window. At the Cat Writers Association Annual Conference, you don't say perfect, but "purrfect." Memo... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Alivia Hunter Is a Pro at Finding Perfect Halloween Costumes. But She's Even Better at Recycling Them

  published Nov 15, 2012

  Halloween has come and gone, but the costumes remain. If all goes according to Alivia Hunter's plan, this year's zombies and ninjas and red devils will re-emerge next year on different bodies. A go... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Man Who Smelled Too Much

  published November 8, 2012

  If only he'd taken a bath. Barefoot and miserable, the defendant, William Nowell, watched the jurors laughing and chatting as they filed out of... More >>

• The Pain and Glory of Competitive Stair-Climbing

  published Oct 18, 2012

  See also: *10 Best Ways to Get in Shape in L.A. *10 Best Workouts in L.A. for People Who Hate Working Out Competitive stair-climbing, its devotees like to say, is the hardest sport that no one's eve... More >>

• What's It Like to Watch 10,000 Cat Videosr Ask Kate Hill

  published Oct 11, 2012

  See also: *Top 10 Cat-Themed Music Videos of All Time *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Katie Hill, the 28-year-old program associate responsible for the first-ever Internet Cat Video Film Fes... More >>

• Aloke Dutta Just Wants to Bang on His Classical Indian Drum All Day. By Himself.

  published Sep 27, 2012

  Aloke Dutta, the world's foremost solo tabla player, lives in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Studio City.By far the most important spot in the apartment is the one occupied by the rug on which Du... More >>

• Rapper Big Chan Lost All Her Money and Was Sleeping in an Attic. Then She Discovered a Sewing Machine...

  published Sep 13, 2012

  The rapper formerly known as both Big Chan and Ghetto Cyndarella is sitting at a Hollywood Boulevard diner, contemplating fashion. We must, Chan Gaines believes, move away from the stripper look on ... More >>

• Everyone at This Convention Is Greener Than You Are

  published Sep 06, 2012

  The AltBuild Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo, in its ninth year, is regarded as a place for the "green-curious" to make the leap to "green-committed." For people who had already waded... More >>

• How 11 Cats Helped Sandi Tan Write a Novel

  published Aug 30, 2012

  Writers, novelists in particular, often have a cat or two attending them as they go about the terrifying business of setting words to blank page. Novelist Sandi Tan had 11. One by one the cats began t... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes

  published Aug 16, 2012

  Of all the painful activities a dominatrix can take part in, there is none quite so torturous as taxes. It is the first day of DomCon, the annual gathering of sadists and the masochists who worship... More >>

• Tavi Gevinson, 16-Year-Old Magazine Editor, Turns an L.A. Gallery Into a Teenage Bedroom

  published Aug 09, 2012

  Tavi Gevinson -- blogger, fashion icon, cultural phenomenon, 16-year-old girl -- is happy to be in Los Angeles, her favorite city, at the tail end of a long, exhausting, amazing and smelly road tri... More >>

• The Bizarre World of Makeup Artists, Where Ovals Are Perfection and Monsters Are Beautiful

  published Aug 02, 2012

  When the International Makeup Artist Trade Show rolls into town, it brings with it a million tiny pans of eye shadow -- and the utter conviction that the right shade of lipstick can change your lif... More >>

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  Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?

  published July 26, 2012

  More stories from our 2012 Fashion... More >>

• Nathan Barnatt Made a Video About Being on the Cover of L.A. Weekly

  published Jul 10, 2012

  What's it like to be on the cover of the L.A. Weeklyr It is all kinds of awesome according to comedian Nathan Barnatt, who appeared on the front page of our recent YouTube issue. You may recognize B... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Nathan Barnatt Never Grew Up

  published Jun 27, 2012

  Check out our entire YouTube issue here. Nathan Barnatt wakes up each morning in Star Wars bedsheets. If the trap door in his bunk bed isn't buried under toys, he pops through that to greet the day.... More >>

• Meet Mark Wallace, NASA's Interplanetary Travel Agent

  published Jun 07, 2012

  "Thank you for having me!" he says at the end. "Any questionsr" In a tiny, hole-in-the-wall art gallery in central L.A., a rocket scientist is wrapping up a talk titled "Getting There: Science Fiction... More >>

• Invasion of the Beauty Bloggers

  published May 24, 2012

  Erika Brechtel's kid is only 3 years old, but she knows the perils of being raised by a fashion blogger. "Mom, put your iPad down," she'll say. Or rather, scream: "Mom! Put! Your! iPad! Down!" Brech... More >>

• David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim: The Doll Makers

  published May 22, 2012

  Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The first conversation Uglydoll creators David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim ever ... More >>

• Rosie Mercado: That Face

  published May 18, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The girl with the pretty face and the big ass -- that's what they called mod... More >>

• Keith Black: The Tumorator

  published May 14, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When Keith Black was 8 years old, his mom caught him dissecting a chicken he... More >>

• Jeana Sohn: She's a Real Hanger-On

  published May 14, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Have you ever seen a pretty, stylish girl and wondered what her closet was l... More >>