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......

They say you can’t go home again, but sometimes you have to. Especially if you’re trying to escape L.A. My hometown is Walnut, California. Its biggest appeal is that nothing ever happens there. It is not hip, or trendy, or cool, or hot — except for the summer, when the......

They danced on the deck of the Titanic, the doomed passengers, even as the mighty ship went down amid icebergs, their would-be saviors on the passenger steamship Carpathia still hours away and much too late. A final, decadent act of defiance, their last dance was a waltz to the “Songe......

Dinosaurs may be extinct, but the final word on their demise has yet to be written. Did the asteroid kill them? Or was it simply the last straw? There are those who think the dinosaurs were already in decline millions of years before the asteroid hit, that their extinction was......

When Hell freezes over, you can at least go figure skating. Who doesn’t love the drama, the death-defying physics, the impossible gravity and fantastic biomechanics, the skill and grace, the slender girls and psychotic costumes? Two local rinks cultivate ice madness. Artesia’s East West Ice Palace is owned by Danny......

Imelda Marcos swindled her country, married a dictator, participated in mass government corruption, encouraged decades of political repression, and effectively killed the Philippine economy — but damned if she didn’t have a fabulous pair of shoes to go with all of it. She’s my people, Imelda, and if I knew......

You know how it is. Some programmer geeks sneak into a corporate cafeteria to eat free food and meet other programmer geeks. Then those geeks start sneaking into other corporate cafeterias for lunch, and they tell more geeks, who sneak into more lunches. Pretty soon those corporations catch on and......

A sweaty and irritable 6-year-old girl, in line for Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, asks, “Mommy, why is everybody wearing black?” Mommy shakes her head, befuddled, as riders on the Thunder train scream and the line of gloomies swathed in capes and robes and knee-high patent-leather skull-buckle boots creeps forward......

At the “Buffy Musical Big Screen Extravaganza” at the Crest Theater in Westwood, I sat next to a guy named Mike, who knew, by heart, all the lyrics to “Once More With Feeling.” For those of you who have been buried in a crypt the past decade, “Once More With......