On her first date with Clarke Daniel Adams, Carrie Kelly Seim intentionally wore a shiny bracelet. “It was a really unusual studded silver bracelet that I’d purchased at a bazaar in Oman,” she said. “It sounds silly,” she added. “But I swear many men are drawn to shiny things.” What …
In March 2018, Christine Ko canceled an audition for the film “Tigertail” because her adoptive father, who had been sick with cancer for many years, was dying and she wanted to see him. A few weeks later, the role still hadn’t been cast, so Ms. Ko, an actress, was invited …
On Jan. 7, three days before they were to celebrate their wedding in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Kendyl Mara Klein and Benjamin Peter DiGiulio received a text alert. “It said there was a fire in the Palisades and to evacuate now,” Ms. Klein said. “I said to …
Early on in her career in Native American education, Taylor Dawn Maki accepted a role as a youth coordinator at Torres Martinez Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a social services program for Native Americans in Long Beach, Calif. On her first day at the TANF office in November …
Angelo Massagli and Caitlin Hale met as co-workers. They were 10 years old. The pair, former child actors, were both cast in the 2003 film “School of Rock” in which Jack Black plays a substitute teacher who creates a rock band out of his classroom of musically gifted elementary-aged prep …
When Stephanie Elizabeth Kanani Morrison married Scott Matthew Platt last month in Hawaii, she was more than happy to share the limelight with another woman — a maternal aunt, Frances Nora Wilsey, whom she cares for full time. Both Ms. Morrison and Ms. Wilsey walked down the aisle at the …
