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The Jameses
An interview with The Salvation Army’s leaders in the India South East Territory. This week, July 15-21, Commissioners MC and Susamma James, territorial leaders in the India South East Territory, visited the USA Western Territory Southwest, Southern California and Golden State divisions and territorial headquarters. The Jameses toured corps, adult rehabilitation centers and Kroc Centers, but primarily came to [...]
Jamie DeJesus
I recently interviewed Jamie, and turned her words into a first person column for the magazine. With her final approval, the following piece will be running in the fall. I’m from North Carolina but moved to San Francisco in search of my life. On the weekends and at night, I would dress as a woman, and in my unhappiness [...]
‘Caine’s Arcade’
This is the kind of story I love! When Nirvan Mullick happened upon a 9-year-old’s (pretty ingenious) arcade, a cardboard theme park of fun, he helped make Caine’s day by arranging a flashmob of people to play. He also made a short film, “Caine’s Arcade,” which has received over 1 million views since it went live two days ago, [...]
Bruce Davidson
The New Yorker‘s “Photo Booth” today features the work of Bruce Davidson, an old-school film photographer, who is deeply in love with his craft. The video includes a look at Davidson’s ongoing “Nature of Los Angeles” series as he searches “for the confluence of man and nature that interact and struggle to live together in the bright sunshine that is abundant [...]
Carroll Bogert
As the Deputy Executive Director for External Relations at Human Rights Watch, Carroll Bogert said via Skype from New York that she wants any material her office produces to look as much as possible like journalism. “It’s the most efficient way to convey information—the maximum number of facts in a minimum number of words,” she said. “When it’s presented in the [...]
A night for heroes
This evening’s CNN Hero Awards was spectacular. Hosted by Anderson Cooper at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the event highlighted 10 heroes: everyday people making a remarkable difference in the world. Robin Lim, who helps Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year. Through her Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, she offers free prenatal care, birthing [...]
The Vargases
Captains Vargas are the face of the Army, preventing trafficking of persons in Tijuana. Captains Erasmus and Ofelia Vargas are Salvation Army officers assigned to Tijuana, Mexico, the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula with 1.8 million people as of the 2010 census. For the Vargases, it is the arena to fulfill a calling to service. “About 20 years ago, we had [...]
Officer Joel Davis
I’ve always been proud to tell people that my dad is a policeman. I think I was meant to be a spy, but turned out to be a journalist—which I like to think is not that far off. My investigations started when I was no older than 5 and wanted to see if the 911 concept actually worked. Indeed it [...]
Sarah Newman
Film is one of the most powerful mediums for motivating change. For the movie’s runtime, the viewer is transplanted into the world and the storyline of the film. A good movie makes the viewer feel the emotions of the actor as they are drawn into the plot. That’s what makes films with a social change component even more powerful. Many [...]
Jeffrey Cole
Having spent the majority of his career working in the television industry, Jeffrey Cole—now director of the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future—said he was always told the industry blew it, that it lost a great opportunity. “TV is the only mass medium that we knew ahead of time was going to be a mass medium,” he said. “After Gutenberg’s printed [...]
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