Gendy Alimurung

Fred Fox, oldest member of the Holmby Park Lawn Bowling Club, is waiting for the game to begin. He is killing time. There is nowhere he needs to be, no one he needs to meet. In a few short weeks, he will be 100 years old. What is the best......

On a balmy, perfect Friday afternoon, Michael Monk is thinking about blood, death and iambic pentameter. The 65-year-old employment lawyer - turned-playwright is the author of The Tragedy of Orenthal: Prince of Brentwood, a play about the O.J. Simpson case, penned in traditional Elizabethan style. First published in 2012, a......

When the artist known as Pashur mentally undresses a woman, he isn't doing so for prurient reasons. Pashur, who goes by his first name, is a professional body painter. On a sunny spring day, the 41-year-old with the sweet, dorky-guy aspect is seated on a chair by a window in......

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. Seven years ago, when Beatrice Valenzuela was shopping at an open-air market in Mexico, she met an old guy who makes shoes. Valenzuela, who is a stylist and therefore a fashionable sort......

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. Jen Bilik's company, Knock Knock, makes those truthful, funny little books and notepads you see at places like Urban Outfitters and museum gift shops across the country. Think of them as Post-It's......

Tamar Geller, "life coach for dogs and their people," is sitting at a café in Venice contemplating her career thus far. "Oprah gave me the title. I did not call it to myself," she says. The anointing happened about seven years ago, when Geller was flying in Oprah's private plane......

From a cavernous warehouse in an undisclosed location in Southern California, the collections manager of the Natural History Museum, Beth Werling, manages a war against entropy. The warehouse's exact location must remain secret - the place is a literal treasure trove of priceless artifacts. On this particular sunny spring day,......