A month after he was found, his family returned to Santa Monica, where they had been living before the relocation orders. The government shut down the camp permanently on Nov. 21, 1945. Ito Matsumura worked two to three jobs to feed her children, Kazue Matsumura told the park service. “She worked really hard,” she said. “That’s why I ...

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Her first time in Los Angeles was the day she moved there, in 2005, with $1,200 and an ability to drive on the highway. (“I knew one route to the beach: Laurel Canyon to Sunset for Santa Monica, then take Santa Monica all the way over,” she said. “It took me like an hour and a half.”) She tried out an acting career, landing a few ...

God of War Art Director Raf Grassetti is taking on Fox McCloud (and friends) again in much-improved artwork of the Nintendo favorite. As I mentioned, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Sony Santa Monica’s Art Director tackle Nintendo characters in early 2019 following the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. In fact, he had ...

Wang first revealed the lie about her grandmother on public radio. The 36-year-old director — who came to the U.S. as a child in 1990; she grew up in Miami but now lives in Santa Monica — had mentioned the story to Neil Drumming, a producer of This American Life she’d met while traveling the festival circuit for her first feature ...

He has covered 27 World Series, 19 Wimbledons and many other major events, including the Super Bowl, World Cup soccer, NBA Finals, four major golf tournaments and U.S. Open tennis championships. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1966 and UC Berkeley with a B.A. in journalistic studies in 1971.

He had been close to graduating from high school when his family was sent to Manzanar. After his father’s death, Masaru Matsumura had to support his mother and three siblings when they returned to Santa Monica. He had to take a job as gardener as his father had done. Kazue Matsumura said her mother, widowed at 43, worked two or three jobs ...

Matsumura, a 46-year-old gardener from Santa Monica, was among 110,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps in remote areas during World War II. He was one of the 10,000 who ended up at the Manzanar internment camp about 200 miles north of Los Angeles. According to the Associated Press, a group of prisoners would sneak out at night to go ...

Although methods have changed over the years, most awards shows maintain a strict security policy. For the Globes, that means much of Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. will be closed that day around the Beverly Hilton. Taxis and ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft are also not allowed to drop passengers off at the hotel, as once again ...

The family members have gathered for a wedding... Nearly a decade ago, John and Molly Chester were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment. They packed up their life and set out to become sustainable farmers a defunct... The star of the documentary “ Honeyland ” is Haditze, a woman living in a remote settlement in the Macedonian mountains.