Gendy Alimurung

Credit: Photo courtesy of Steve Valentine's Gay Ballroom LA

Gay Ballroom Dance Lessons with Steve Valentine

Are you gay? Do you like to dance? If you answered those questions "yes," then you might check out Steve Valentine's Gay Ballroom Dance class at West Hollywood's Plummer Park. If you answered "Is the pope Catholic?" to those questions, then you definitely need to check out the gay ballroom......
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Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival

Do you want to save some orangutans? Do you like to run? Twenty-five bucks buys you a ticket to run in Orangutan Foundation International's upcoming fundraiser Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival on September 26. I know it takes a lot for us to get off our asses and......
Laurie and Frederick Samitaur-Smith with their Culver City tower; Credit: PHOTO BY JENNIE WARREN

Tower of Power

Land-development power couple Frederick and Laurie Samitaur-Smith have a big dream. It is 72 feet tall, to be specific — a tower made of rusted metal that spirals upward like a giant curl of shaved chocolate, or like one of those precarious, airy, antigravitational sugar sculptures you see on the......
Rick Araluce

Little Pieces

Rick Araluce has a day job building sets for the Seattle Opera, where it's not uncommon for him to make a piece of scenery 60 feet wide and three stories tall. You can see that stuff from a mile away. But Araluce is best known for his miniature work. For......
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Skull Stapler: Office Supplies No One Will Steal

Would you pay $50 for a stapler? If it looked like this you might. Yesterday I was researching (and by "researching" I mean "random Googling") a chicken handbag by Sarut, and I came across these Skull Staplers. Their tagline: "Use your head!" The top of the head (or, in fancy......
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Chicken Bag: Weirdness at Black Market on Sawtelle

If you go to a store called Black Market on Sawtelle Blvd in West Los Angeles, depending on whether someone has already purchased it, you may or may not find this bag. It is shaped like a chicken. It is freaking weird and fabulous. The chicken handbag will set you......
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Zombie Foot Necklace: Huh? Or, More Etsy Weirdness

Check out this "zombie foot" necklace from Etsy seller Spacepearls. The current crafting scene never ceases to surprise me with its strangeness. Why would someone want to wear a tiny foot around their neck? Someone other than Jeffrey Dahmer, that is. We shall never know. Nice detail work on the......
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Chocolate Weapons: Bust A Chocolate Cap In Your Ass

The only thing more hilarious than these chocolate weapons is the warning on the chocolate weapons website: "Due to excessive heat during the summer months, we regret that we will be unable to ship our chocolate products due to risk of melting (even with overnight shipping and ice packs)." How......
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John Chase: Memorial Planned for West Hollywood Urban Planner

The memorial for John Chase will take place tomorrow 4 pm to 7 pm at Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. Chase was West Hollywood's urban planner for fourteen years. He died Friday, August 13 at his home in Los Angeles. LA Weekly contributor Tibby Rothman writes movingly......