Gendy Alimurung

Well, it's here. A book about cat fur. Crafting With Cat Hair: Cute Handicrafts to Make With Your Cat is out this month from Quirk Books. The idea comes from Japan (of course). The translator, Amy Hirschman, lives in Los Angeles. She hasn't made the cat hair crafts yet, but......

When Keith Black was a kid, his mom caught him dissecting a chicken heart by the side of the house. He was 8, and such behavior might have worried some parents. But Black's father, a school principal, recognized the boy's curiosity. The next week, he brought his son home a......

The Shaolin temple in China is 1,500 years old and one of the nation's most ancient sacred treasures, the source of all martial arts. The Shaolin temple in Los Angeles is 3 years old and is located in a Sherman Oaks storefront next to a pet store. It is, however,......

The Teen Party Expo came to town recently, and the L.A. Convention Center morphed into what the inside of a young girl's brain must look like: Hot. Bright. Crowded. Confusing. Loud. Sort of like hell, only fluorescent pink. Picture it, the giddy schizophrenia of a candy booth right next to......

Often, the best (i.e. worst) stuff you hear at red carpet events comes not from the red carpet but from that angry, roiling, elbow-jabbing, toe-smashing little slice of hell known as the reporters' pit. Take the recent launch of the Kardashian Kollection at the Hamptons-themed The Colony nightclub in Hollywood......