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Oct. 7, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
Naomi Iizuka’s plays have been produced and hailed as distinctive throughout the nation but have barely been seen in Los Angeles, where she lives.
Feb. 29, 2004
Food
In a mechanized world, Tokifusa Iizuka creates elegant knives entirely by hand.
March 29, 2001
Complex characters tackle tough issues and make colossal mistakes in Naomi Iizuka’s ’36 Views’ at Laguna Playhouse.
Jan. 4, 2005
“36 Views”: A series of 19th century woodblock prints by Hokusai inspired Naomi Iizuka’s play, but don’t look for serene mountain vistas. “36 Views” uses the rough and tumble of the contemporary art scene to examine concepts such as “real,” “fake,” “beauty” and “love.”
Jan. 27, 2005
June 10, 2010
Atsuko Iizuka spent the last two days of December doing what generations of Japanese women before her have done to ring in the New Year: simmering, boiling, baking and broiling 15 separate items for an elaborate feast called osechi .
Jan. 1, 1994
California
Steve Tom played a judge on the television show “Major Crimes.”
July 31, 2016
Culver City police Officer Randy Vickerygot a pat on the back and a Police Service Award last month from the International Assn. of Chiefs of Police.
Nov. 16, 1995
The body was found at the armory in Culver City. Police cite a ‘domestic dispute.’
Aug. 31, 2007