Gendy Alimurung

Riff Raff and Kapparot Chickens: Readers Respond

L.A. Weekly Wins Big at the L.A. Press Club

The L.A. Weekly's Gene Maddaus was named Print Journalist of the Year at last night's L.A. Press Club's banquet, while a half-dozen Weekly staffers took first-place honors in other categories. Of Maddaus' work, the judges wrote, "Maddaus' investigative stories were thorough and interesting. He know ... More >>

Honeybees and Chain Restaurants: Readers Respond

L.A. Press Club Announces Awards Finalists; LA Weekly Gets 21 Nods

LA Weekly and its journalists comprise 21 finalists in the Los Angeles Press Club's 55th Southern California Journalism Awards. The finalists were announced today and include Gene Maddaus for Journalist of the Year and Hard News story and Simone Wilson, Hillel Aron, and this writer for Hard News as ... More >>

Forever 21 Compelled By Federal Judge To Comply with 'Sweatshop' Investigation

Read L.A. Weekly's feature story, "Sweatshops Are Fashion's Dirty Little Secret. But They Don't Exist in L.A. -- Do They?" Forever 21 founders and husband-and-wife team Do Won Chang and Jin Sook can't duck the federal government anymore. On March 7, U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Morrow ordere ... More >>

The Future: The L.A. Weekly's 2012 Comics Issue

The Right to Smell? Readers Respond to Our Cover Story

L.A. Weekly Fashion Issue 2012: Dressing Ethically

We all talk, these days, about eating ethically -- how to fill our bellies without wasting carbon miles, poisoning the Earth or torturing animals. Restaurants boast about their organic ingredients; the best ones will even tell you where the pig you're eating came from. All good. But we rarely talk ... More >>

Comments: Blood in the Streets

Comment: People Like Us

Comment: Darling Dita

We Lost It at the Movies

The Fan Who Would Be King

LA Weekly Writers Win Big at L.A. Press Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards

​Last night at the Biltmore Hotel, the Los Angeles Press Club handed out glass stars for the National Entertainment Journalism Awards, and LA Weekly walked away with quite a few. Steven Leigh Morris won Print Critic of the Year for his theater reviews. Gendy Alimurung nabbed second place in ... More >>

10 Cats Who Eat Better Than You: At The Santa Monica Cat Show

Gendy AlimurungWhat did your cat eat today?​ Does your cat eat better than you do? Some of these kitties at the recent Santa Monica Cat Show do. I asked their respective humans what is the fanciest, tastiest, nommiest thing they feed their cats. Keep reading to learn what they said, or 10 Cats ... More >>

SoCal Zombie Walk this Saturday: Some Dos and Don'ts

Gendy Alimurung​ Feeling zombified? Walk it out. On Saturday, people will be gathering on Hollywood Blvd for the latest SoCal Zombie Walk. Meet at 5:30 p.m. at 1718 N.Cherokee Ave in the courtyard of the parking structure located one building up from Geisha House restaurant. Walking starts a ... More >>

Harry Potter Art at Nucleus Gallery

Gendy AlimurungJ. Shea: Thestral​If you couldn't handle waiting in line for two hours to get into Nucleus Gallery's recent extremely packed Harry Potter-themed art show, this is the sort of thing you missed. That's a hanging sculpture of a thestral in the photo above. Awesome, right? The rest ... More >>

Lousy School Lunches

House Tour: Audrey Kawasaki's Creepy Cute Art Studio

Painter Audrey Kawasaki works in a cozy two-story Los Angeles apartment that also serves as her home. The place is filled with light, books, art, and a cornucopia of creepy, cute collectibles. Photos by Gendy Alimurung​ ​

People Read Books! 80 Percent of Californians Have Read One in the Last Month

Flickr/GoodSquadSarah​ This just in from the "humanity isn't as screwed as we think" department: people read books. A new USC Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times Poll says 80 percent of Californians surveyed have read at least one book in the last month, and 40 percent have read three. Here at ... More >>

Emily Strange at Royal/T: 10 Best Items To Spend Your Money On At Her Pop-Up Store

Photo by Gendy Alimurung​Do you like Emily Strange? From now until November 11, that cute little goth girl will be lurking about at Royal/T Cafe in Culver City. She has a pop-up shop there (see photos below). She's got merchandise like there's no tomorrow. If you go on October 26, there will b ... More >>

Pikachu Girls: Dressing Up Like Pokemon, The Cute, The Bad, The Slutty

Why do cute girls like to dress up as Pikachu? It's a question for the ages. Pikachu is Nintendo's small, chubby, ground-dwelling rodent whose main powers are electricity and getting cute girls to wear short yellow skirts. You'll see them at every anime or comic book convention, rain or shine. I'd p ... More >>

Randall Roberts' LA Weekly Feature Following Ozomatli into Burma Wins Prestigious AltWeekly Award

​An LA Weekly piece by our former Music Editor (and current LA Times Music Editor) Randall Roberts about LA band Ozomatli's tour of South East Asia has just been chosen as the best Arts feature of 2009 at the 2010 edition of the AltWeekly Awards. Another LA Weekly piece, about the fascinating ... More >>

Tragic in Their Not-Ness

The Vagina Dialogues

Today in Awkward Dates: When Weezer Bassist Met Orientalist Hooker

Jillian Lauren is this week's LA Weekly cover girl. She worked (worked?) in the Sultan of Brunei's harem when she was younger. Now she's married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner and lives in Eagle Rock. From our own Gendy Alimurung's interview with the former harem girl/current rock wife: Six years ... More >>

Manny Mania

Let’s Get Something Straight Between Us Straight Between Us

Pen Names and Prejudice

Zombie Walk Saturday Night: Evening Stroll With the Undead in Pasadena

​If you're looking for something weird to do this Saturday night, how about walking with the undead? Anthony Dalbis, who runs SoCal Zombie Walk, has organized another one, in Pasadena this time. It's holiday themed. Costume possibilities include: zombie elves, zombie reindeer, zombie Christmas ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Girls, The Airborne Toxic Event, Origami Vinyl's First Art Show and Slayer Bears at Unique LA

It's a weekend of firsts, with locals The Airborne Toxic Event taking to the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage and Origami Vinyl hosting an art show. Still, there was more going on this weekend, from concerts to holiday shopping extravaganzas. Keep reading for the details. The Airborne Toxic Event wit ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Club Wear

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Disney Freaks in Mouse Heaven: Best of D23 Expo Photos

Disney rolled out its equivalent of San Diego's Comic-Con last weekend, the first time the company has attempted such a move. Tens of thousands of people converged on the D23 Expo in Anaheim to spend four days in mouse heaven and we caught them, on camera. View more photos in the D23 Expo slideshow. ... More >>

You're Late to the Game, Hollywood: A Social Network for Zombies? Movie Promotion '09 Style

Gendy AlimurungThe entertainment business is toughEarlier this morning while driving I heard a radio advertisement actually refer to the Vampire Diaries as "the TV show the Internet is buzzing about." Really. It's positioning like this that underscores how crucial it is to master what industry anal ... More >>

"Sunset Junction": One-Sided?

LA Weekly best in Southern California Journalism Awards in news, investigative, column, feature and political reporting

It was a huge, huge night for LA Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club's awards gala in Universal City a few hours ago. Staff writer Christine Pelisek triple-swept in the Hard News, Investigative and News Feature categories for major newspapers with more than 100,000 circulation, beating the Los Ang ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Gay Pride, Kung Fu Femmes, Jay Reatard, Plus Lakers Win but Downtown L.A. Loses

Sunday night was a winning night for L.A. Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club Awards ceremony at the Universal City Sheraton hotel. Writers Christine Pelisek, Daniel Heimpel, Gendy Alimurung and Nancy Rommelmann all took home first place awards, while Darrick Rainey, Steven Leigh Morris, Patrick Ra ... More >>

Birth of a Zombie Nation: The Undead in the Movies

From Bela Lugosi's zombie love slave to George Romero's Living Undead through the soulless corporate workers of more recent films

World Tea Expo Report: The Untouchables -- Mouse Petit Fours. Plus Tea Meanies

Gendy AlimurungMice-a-fours: So fetching to look at ... but how do they taste? They don't just have tea at the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas. They have all the stuff that goes around the tea. This means cups, saucers, teapots, tea cozies, scones, pots of honey, and petit fours shaped like cutely ant ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Bettie Page Tribute, World Tea Expo, Pablove Foundation Benefit, Exotic Cars & Lolitas at the D1 Grand Prix

While April was a great month for events in Los Angeles (see our April '09 Month in Photos slideshow for proof), we have to admit we're pretty exhausted. After Coachella, exploring Michael Jackson's Neverland, two non-stop days at the L.A. Weekly L.A. Weekend festival and more, we decided to take it ... More >>

World Tea Expo Report: Like Tea for Chocolate -- Laurie Nienhaus's Chocolate-and-Tea Workshop Makes Your Tongue Work Harder

Gendy AlimurungYou see, I HAVE to eat all this chocolate and drink this tea -- this is serious work, people! I attended "tea playwright" Laurie Nienhaus's Chocolate & Tea workshop at the World Tea Expo this weekend in Las Vegas. (Watch Squid Ink for more tea dispatches.) "Chocolate and tea," Nien ... More >>

Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention

We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Cirque Du So Lame, Burlesque Barbie... and Easter

For those who stayed in town over the holiday weekend and skipped out on feasting with the extended family, hopefully you took Jessica Ritz's advice and enjoyed Easter brunch at one of her recommended restaurants Comme Ca, XIV, The Bazaar or Providence. We did and followed it up with dinner at Littl ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Edwardian Ball, Chinatown's Golden Dragon Parade, Killsonic Marching Gang Plays Metro

For some, this weekend was only about one thing: the Super Bowl. For others, it was about live music on the Metro with the Killsonic Marching Gang, ninjas and contortionists on the streets of Chinatown for the Golden Dragon Parade, and Edward Gorey-inspired, turn of the century decadence until dawn ... More >>

Sarah Palin: Secessionist Regrets?

Also, animal torture and the Weekly's moral compass

Those Olympic Swimsuits, a.k.a. Drugs on a Hanger?

Now that Michael Phelps finally crushed the 400-meter this past weekend, how about those Olympic swimsuits? You know, those controversial Speedo LZR Racer bodysuits that look like a pair of Spanx pantyhose mated with a scuba suit. The ones that caused tons of world records to be broken? People ... More >>

The 2nd Annual List Issue