August 22, 2025
LA: Prepare for Your Atmospheric Closeup with the PBS/American Experience Documentary …
"Clearing the Air: The War on Smog." Premieres on Tuesday, August 26.
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August 7, 2025
Strike up the band: here's my next book! In an evocative follow-up to his Los Angeles Times bestselling Arroyo, Chip Jacobs returns with a gripping tale of brotherhood,…
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December 6, 2024
The Day After
How Licking the Filthiest Air on the Planet Should Fill Us with Hope
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November 26, 2024
Highway Killers in the Land of Concrete
Growing up in northeast LA County, I knew one set of numbers were so incendiary they were practically fighting words. 7-1-0.
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October 25, 2023
The Brown Air Prequel for our Climate Change World
Why the Sky Disappeared, and Why L.A.'s Smog-Choked Atmosphere Can Be Our Lodestar Today.
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January 4, 2022
Chip’s Year in Writing & Creating
For me, creativity isn't just what I do. It's who I am, and my most reliable bulwark against glum emotions polluting my otherwise optimistic view of things.
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December 24, 2021
At Christmas, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” In 2022, hopefully it’ll be a series about a life as Impossible as it is Strange!
Mercury Media has optioned its inaugural title, the underdog story of a teenage daredevil who rose from his deathbed to reinvent himself into a mini-Hollywood kingpin and…
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July 30, 2021
My Fantastic Place – An Essay
Go Further: More Appreciations of Power Pop Squeeze was the sound I’d been waiting for from the black hole left by John Lennon’s murder and the shallow onslaught of hair-metal.…
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July 23, 2021
My Fantastic Place
Go Further Squeeze was the sound I’d been waiting for from the black hole left by John Lennon’s murder and the shallow onslaught of hair-metal...Speedy guitar paired with mordant…
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