One Cool Club
What a genius idea! That was my thought in researching our cover story this month: cooling the street pavement and adding more shade trees to help Los Angeles reduce the City temperature...
The Heat Is On, for Equity
As the Alive! team stood on a West Florence Avenue sidewalk photographing LA’s Chief Heat Officer, Marta Segura, the point became difficult to ignore: We began in the cool of the morning...
The Point Is Kids
The impressive PlayLA Youth and Adaptive Sports Initiative has already signed up more than 120,000 young athletes in less than one year; I am told PlayLA is the biggest one-time expansion of sports activities in Rec and Parks history...
Stepping Up to Have a Say
Attentive readers of Alive! in print and online might notice that we photographed the new Olivia E. Mitchell Youth Council in a handsome but common place – the steps of City Hall. Anyone associated with the City of Los Angeles knows those steps...
Honoring Their Service
Alive! has never published a cover story like the one this month. That is because we have never lost three people so important to Club Members in the matter of just a few months...
The Future Arrives
The future has arrived! I have seen it myself on duty at Fire Station 82 in East Hollywood. The LAFD’s new all-electric fire truck is indeed impressive. In this month’s Alive!, we dig deeper to tell you how it came about. Meet Battalion Chief Peter Hsiao, Capt. II Darius Cunnigan and Equipment Specialist II Michael Dunbar, who made it happen. (Let me also laud the stunning cover and inside photos by our Vice President of Marketing, Summy Lam.)
What Giving Means
In retirement, Zaki Mustafa, LADOT, Club Member, has transformed tens of thousands of lives. And maybe even his own...
Clear Skies Ahead
The email came clearly but gently one morning – asking if Alive! would consider producing a story on the Van Nuys Airport staff. We replied to him – Paul Herrera, Club Member – immediately…
On the Road to a New Era
How good it was to see everyone again at the Club’s annual meeting last month! After three years of being relegated to virtual Board meetings during the pandemic, we came back together again on Jan. 17, pledging...
The Future on the Roof
We found out. I speak of the LAPD’s first major solar array, a bold and award-winning look into the future of LA. It sits atop the LAPD Motor Transport Division’s headquarters...
