Gendy Alimurung

A Dark and Stormy Night at the Museum

Gendy Alimurung
The sky throws fistfuls of rain down upon the city. But even the cozy, tempting gloom, suggesting nothing so much as a night curled up in blankets in front of the television, isn’t dissuading the crowd gathering for the first of this year’s First Fridays after-hours parties at the Natural......
Multitasker Lisa Ristorucci (PHOTO BY JESSICA MILLER)

L.A.’s Queen Gofer Girl

Gendy Alimurung
The needs of the people of Los Angeles are unending. Dinner reservations must be booked. Prescriptions must be filled. Friends must be shopped for. Cats, medicated. Dogs, groomed. And so, a Gofer Girl’s work is never done. For the employees of the Gofer Girls errand service, “errand” expresses the concept......

Oh, Christmas Tree!

Gendy Alimurung
By the time the season’s Christmas trees have been hacked into mulch, an age-old battle will have been fought on tree yards across the city, between tree poachers and sellers. A robber held Ken Zoccoli, manager of the Chauvet Tree Farms lot at Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Glen in......

In the Eco Chamber

Gendy Alimurung
It is a sunny Saturday outside the Eco Gift Expo at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Vendors, who had to write essays describing why they are eco and pay a $2,000 minimum booth fee for the privilege of being here, are selling eco-friendly clothes, yoga accessories, cleansing drinks, purifying lotions,......
Way beyond cute: Out of the pages of the manga Pure Trance by artist Junko Mizuno

Beautiful Mutants in a Plastic World

Gendy Alimurung
Let’s say you kidnapped some small animals — bears, hamsters, rabbits, dogs, tigers or whatever — and left them stranded on an island, only to come back years later and discover that the animals had been mating and giving birth to weird hybrids who were fighting wars and having revolutions......

Ozzy Sells Out

Gendy Alimurung
There goes Sharon Osbourne’s wig. And Ozzy Osbourne’s bathrobe. A knee-length vampire take on the Little Black Dress once worn by Kelly Osbourne disappears. By noon the towels are gone. Now someone is bidding on a picture frame containing a photo of Jack Osbourne with his family — for reasons......
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The Mall Is His Classroom

Gendy Alimurung
To most of us, a mall is just a mall, but to film-studies instructor Danny Sussman, it is a Rosetta stone rife with hidden meaning, a sub­conscious conversation between marketer and marketee. Had you been at the Century City mall several Tuesdays ago, you might have bumped into Sussman marching......

Some UTA Online All-Stars

Gendy Alimurung
Comedy shorts and parodies by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg, now of Saturday Night Live fame. Hits include “Lazy Sunday” and “Dick in a Box.” w...

Game Over

Gendy Alimurung
No matter how you work out the endgame in your head, humans are destined for extinction: Apocalypse is built in to the human condition. Science, which defines and quantifies the heft of that apocalypse, is all about control — in naming the beast, it suggests, we gain power over it. So......