Gendy Alimurung

Biggest Regrets

We asked: What did you used to do that you don't anymore? Answers: "Be a tease." —F, 23, artist  "Be a prude."  —M, 26, web designer "Keep calling." —F...

Not Saving the Oaks

At the final stand of the Battle of the Arcadia Woodlands, the casualties bleed green. The sun is literally setting in the sky. But it had already figuratively set for a grove of 250 oak and sycamore trees. The trees were standing in the way of 500,000 cubic yards of......
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Oaks vs. Bulldozers: Killing Trees in Arcadia, By The Numbers

Here's a by-the-numbers breakdown of the final scene at the skirmish zone at the intersection of Elkins and Highland Oaks Avenues in Arcadia. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works chopped down a pristine grove of very old oak trees there recently to make way for sediment they will......
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Moz Crafts: Morrissey's Lyrics In Needlepoint

Nothing says cozy quite like Morrissey's lyrics in needlepoint. The perfect blend of pain, craft and depression! Kimberly Scola, the crafty girl who goes by the name Chez Sucre Chez, says, "I spent my high-school years listening to a whole lot of the Smiths and scratching the words to those......
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Swimming to Catalina

The man swims hard. Waves bigger than the man is tall crash around him. He is cold, exhausted. He doesn't know if he can go on. Everyone is counting on him — his friends, his family, his teammates, the autistic kids for whom he's raising awareness, anyone who thinks a......

Borders' Denouement

Ding dong, the Borders Books and Music superstore in Westwood is dead. This week, as the store prepared to shut down, the stages of grief were in full effect: shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and shopping. Note the big yellow signs ("Entire store for sale!" and "Nothing held back!"). Note......