Gendy Alimurung

Cedars-Sinai Heart Transplant Recipients Play the Doctors Who Saved Their Lives…in Softball

Gendy AlimurungAugust 4, 2011

Talk about a game with heart. Once a year, a bunch of cardiac transplant patients and the Cedars-Sinai doctors who saved their lives get together to play a friendly game of softball. The patients usually win. The doctors usually lose. It's been that way for 20 years. This year's game......

Fashion Issue 2011: Does L.A. Have a Fashion Identity?

Gendy AlimurungJuly 28, 2011

It is flip-flops at business meetings, and sweatpants at fancy restaurants. It is jeans with sneakers, but also with skyscraper stilettos. It is baggy sweaters and little straw hats. It is giant sunglasses and giant purses, big enough to carry a squadron of tiny dogs. It is crazy color: fuchsia,......

Valerj Pobega: Model Student

Gendy AlimurungJuly 28, 2011

Valerj Pobega used to be a model. Walking the runway for heavy hitters like Valentino and Alexander McQueen, she'd study the clothes, learning the nuances of their fit and construction in a way most beginning designers never get to do — by wearing them. Soon she was sewing her own......

Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever

Gendy AlimurungJuly 28, 2011

Somewhere right now in Los Angeles, a hipster is wearing a furry hood with wolf ears. He is at a nightclub, maybe, or a bar. The furry hood makes him look like an animal. It makes him feel like an animal. Girls want to pet him. Guys want to kick......

Harry Potter Art at Nucleus Gallery

Gendy AlimurungJuly 13, 2011

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 of the art was also......

Calling Afghanistan: L.A. Schoolkids Try to Bridge a Gulf

Gendy AlimurungJuly 1, 2011

Teenagers spend a lot of time talking on the phone. But not too many of them get to call their peers in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. A handful of teens from Windward School, a charter school in West L.A., recently became the first to do so. The nonprofit group......

Jamie Oliver: 12 Quotes From The Celebrity Chef You Won't Read in This Week's Cover Story

Gendy AlimurungJune 20, 2011

You may have noticed a giant Jamie Oliver-shaped hole in our recent cover story, "Bad Lunch," about school food in Los Angeles. Oliver's antics originally inspired the piece. But we chose instead to focus on the problems inherent within LAUSD's meal program, and on the non-celebrity chef people who are......

LAUSD Bans Chocolate Milk: Thanks To Parents, Jamie Oliver & Jimmy Kimmel

Gendy AlimurungJune 16, 2011

Say goodbye to chocolate and strawberry milk at Los Angeles public schools beginning July 1. The LAUSD Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove flavored milk with added sugar. A new dairy contract will exclude the chocolate and strawberry milk as part of the district's continuing efforts to provide healthier......

Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals

Gendy AlimurungJune 16, 2011

At 12:33 p.m., the lunch bell rings at Los Angeles High School. Moments later comes the stampede. Kids — 2,000 of them — burst through the cafeteria doors, push...

House Tour: Audrey Kawasaki's Creepy Cute Art Studio

Gendy AlimurungJune 1, 2011

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......

Food

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Music

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Entertainment

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Arts

Art News: Time Is The Essence With Patrick Guetta And The Sound Of Water At Descanso Gardens

Artist Paul Tzanetopoulos Wants To Set The Record Straight On The LAX Pylons

Art News: A Preview Of The Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art and A Roberta Flack Auction at Julien’s

Culture

Summer At Descanso Gardens

Getting Social: FIFA World Cup 2026 Travel Relief And A Wooden Boat Festival

‘Los Lobos: Native Sons’ Documents How the East LA Band Has Soundtracked the Chicano Experience for 50 Years

Cannabis

From Cannabis Pioneer to Mushroom Mogul: How Justin Hartfield is Mapping the Future of Wellness with ShrooMap

From Farm to Door: How Legal THCA Flower Delivery Works

Your Green Guide: Where to Celebrate 4/20 2026 in Los Angeles

Gendy Alimurung

Cedars-Sinai Heart Transplant Recipients Play the Doctors Who Saved Their Lives…in Softball

Fashion Issue 2011: Does L.A. Have a Fashion Identity?

Valerj Pobega: Model Student

Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever

Harry Potter Art at Nucleus Gallery

Calling Afghanistan: L.A. Schoolkids Try to Bridge a Gulf

Jamie Oliver: 12 Quotes From The Celebrity Chef You Won't Read in This Week's Cover Story

LAUSD Bans Chocolate Milk: Thanks To Parents, Jamie Oliver & Jimmy Kimmel

Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals

House Tour: Audrey Kawasaki's Creepy Cute Art Studio

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