Gendy Alimurung

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......

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......

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 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......

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......

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......

The 35 year-old Central Illinois man known as "icruise" has a thing for Jabba the Hutt. By day he is a Japanese-language translator. By night icruise collects anything and everything Jabba, Jabba, Jabba. Why do you like Jabba so much? That's kind of a difficult question to answer. When I......

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......