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...
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...
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...
From the River, a Cover
Like most of you, the Club took the day off on Monday, March 28, to honor civil rights hero César Chávez. But the persistent and...
The Call to Help
Club Members might wonder how we develop our stories. This month provides an exceptional example.
The Art of Living
Two subjects piqued my interest – one involving an extremely busy airport where some things are worth slowing down for; and the other about a woman who will not slow down even as she reaches the century mark...
Ship Shape
Club Members with eagle-eye vision – or even regular-person vision! – might notice that I am not in the main photo you see in this blog...
A Story in Steel and Glass
Sometimes a building is just a building. To my way of looking at it, though, in the case of the impressive new Airport Police headquarters adjacent to the north runways of LAX, it signals much more...
A Season of Gratitude
Are you ready for the holidays? The Club’s Retail Operations sure is! As I write this before Thanksgiving, I watch our team preparing to deliver to Club Members the Club gifts you love...
About the Past, and From It
It is not common that a story we produce is about one thing, but also about that same thing in a completely different way. Such is the case with this month’s feature story about the Office of Historic Resources...
