Gendy Alimurung

Dr. Luis Chiappe; Credit: PHOTO BY TED SOQUI

The Man Who Assembles T. rexes for Museums

Gendy Alimurung
It's a scene that would have played out 66 million years ago ... maybe. Three tyrannosaurs — a teenager, a juvenile and a baby — circle hungrily around a duck-billed dinosaur. You can practically hear the dinner bell clanging: Feeding time. Dig in. Actually, you have to squint to see......
Garin Hovannisian at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Montebello; Credit: PHOTO BY JENNIE WARREN

Armenian Patriotism, Revisited

Gendy Alimurung
When writer Garin Hovannisian goes home to Armenia in a few days, he will feel weirdly homesick. "It's so strange. I always miss the place where I'm not," he says, sitting in a café in Glendale, the one place in Los Angeles where there are so many Armenians it can......
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Uterus Piñata: Great For Hysterectomy and First Period Parties

Gendy Alimurung
It's a piñata...shaped like a uterus. So wrong it's right? I can't decide. Says Etsy seller AmieKin, "It's great for baby showers, or Red Tent parties (daughter's first period) or even hysterectomy parties? Personally, I think beating a uterine effigy with a stick is a little...violent, so I made the......
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Moz Crafts: The Morrissey Football Scarf

Gendy Alimurung
Morrissey craft item of the week: the Moz football scarf, courtesy of Viva Moz. Because nothing goes together like angry soccer fans and Morrissey. For a while, Viva Moz was offering a "Vulgar Sweater" emblazoned with his highness of melancholy's face. The sweater, alas, sold out. "It is with deep......
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Sex and This City

Gendy Alimurung
Read more in: "UCLA Sex Survey Results," "Give Sodomy a Chance," "iPhilandering: It's Easy to Be Sleazy!," and "Uncomplicated Casual Sex? Not Easy to Find o...