Building Our First House
We created Alive! in October 2002 to tell the stories of the good things that City employees do every day. And in the nearly 22 years since, somehow we have never featured the critically important Housing Dept. on our cover...
Friendship Is the Best Journey
Earl Rodgers first wrote to Alive! in 2018 to submit photos to our fun “Alive! Around the World” section. But this was different; this was a group...
Looking Our Best
I craned my neck a lot a few weeks ago! That was when we visited City Hall with the restoration team. When you read our cover story this month, you’ll see why...
Friendship and Service
As I write in this month’s main news story, I very much am humbled and honored to serve Club Members as the CEO of both the Los Angeles City Employees Association and the subsidiary Employees Club of California...
Ready for the Spotlight
A star is born! By that I mean the incredible Club Truck! This beautiful new Club innovation in steel and solar has been more than a year in the making...
Real Stories
Each November, Alive! gets real. I should say, even more real. When we consider which stories to place on our cover, we consider their behind-the-scenes facts of important City projects, their insights...
Seeing a Vision
Have you ever seen a dream being built? That is precisely what we witness in the stunning cover story this month on the Vision Theatre.
Sustaining a Story
We at Alive! had intended to catch up with the sustainability gurus at StreetsLA’s Center for Green Innovation since it was first created last year at the end of the pandemic...
Play Is Serious Business
When Association President John Hawkins and I arrived at the amazing Octavia Lab makerspace, one of the Central Library’s newest offerings, we were set to discover everything about it...
Celebrating Retirees, Together
Associations can be known by their logos, their matching shirts, or other things. But the best ones are known by their people...
