Gendy Alimurung

Grammy Hair Talk: Night of the Long Bob

Gendy Alimurung
Thanks to master stylist Rodney Cutler, who is doing hair at a pre-red-carpet soiree at Smashbox studios the Friday before the Grammys, I can definitively report that texture and matte finish are in right now. Though that intel will probably only be current until you get to the end of......
Incognito at the 99? Be proud: A proper Valentine date appreciates a bargain.; Credit: Gregory Bojorquez

Gonna Party Like It's $19.99

Gendy Alimurung
There are an extravagant, hedonistic few among us who would rather die before spending anything less than a couple of grand for a party — just for the balloons. Their Caligulaesque spending habits would make even a My Super Sweet 16 debutante whine with bitter jealousy. To countless others who......

Leonard Nimoy's Heavy Conversation

Gendy Alimurung
On a brisk Tuesday night, multihyphenate actor-author-photographer- former-Vulcan-neck-gripper Leonard Nimoy is being interrogated by — no, forgive me, is having a Hammer Conversation at the museum with — science writer Natalie Angier in front of an audience desperately trying not to ask him to say, "Live long and prosper." The......
Bringing back that old-fashioned

Swing Time: Gay Ballroom Dancing

Gendy Alimurung
Ballroom dancing is spectacularly gay, but until recently, it seems, it hasn't been nearly gay enough. What with the twirling and the sequins and the arch attitude, not to mention the posture and the claw-your-eyes-out, bitch-I-will-cut-you! figure-skating-style politics, gay ballroom dancing — the idea of it, anyway — is one......
law logo2x b

Fashion on the Campaign Trail

Gendy Alimurung
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the . (Click to enlarge) —Coco Chanel   Coco Chanel never figured on a world so thoroughly wired for public scrutiny when she made the distinction between dressing shabbily and dressing impeccably. These days, it doesn't matter. We......

Fatherhood Lessons From Money Guru Robert Kiyosaki

Gendy Alimurung
As the noonday sun burns off a Thursday morning haze, dads from all over the city gather at the airport Sheraton Gateway for a master class in fatherhood. The master: Robert Kiyosaki, who has attained demigod status among his devotees and is the best-selling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad:......
(function(r, d, u) { var s = d.createElement(r); s.async = true; s.setAttribute('data-cfasync', false); u += '&cb=' + Date.now() + Math.random(); s.src = u; var n = d.getElementsByTagName(r)[0]; n.parentNode.insertBefore(s, n); })('script', document, '//engine.laweekly.com/?221982862');
Up close and personal: Fruit fly; Credit: Louis De Vos

The Insect-Human Duet: A Field Guide

Gendy Alimurung
Joshua Abarbanel and Jeff Swimmer, authors of the recently released A Field Guide to Household Bugs, sit at a table in Abarbanel's cozy, modern home in Santa Monica. They leaf through piles of electron-microscope photos of bugs, fully cognizant of the fact that there are more bugs — actual, physical......

The Summer Glau Chronicles

Gendy Alimurung
There are many reasons to see Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, not least of which is Summer Glau. Outside on the street in front of the ArcLight theater last Wednesday, I was waiting for the actress to appear on the red carpet for the television show's premiere and postparty. Perhaps......
Mix or match? Jesse Ramos in KTZ dog-print shirt

Welcome Hunters: the Body Eclectic

Gendy Alimurung
Right now, if you are looking in Los Angeles for cutting-edge, high-end, underground designer clothing from Iceland, you will have to go to Chinatown. Robin Cervar is the woman to see. She is co-owner, with Jason Gillis, of Welcome Hunters on Jung Jing Road, and unless you have been trolling......

What's in the Welcome Hunters Closet?

Gendy Alimurung
BeaYukMui: Ironic iconography (unicorns, rings, strawberries). Cashmere sweaters, scarves. Giorgio Brato: Fruit-dyed leather shoes and boots from Bologna. Jenny Hellström: Owl-print jackets. Detective-inspired menswear. Iben Hoj: Cobwebby blouses and shifts reinforced with stainless steel, from Copenhagen. Only 10 pieces in each collection, but, says Cervar, "perfectly realized." Kloset: Flirty, pretty......