Chip Jacobs

The argument that erupted between us that evening felt like the climax of a John Hughes coming-of-age movie. Suddenly, a 100+ people listening to a speaker up front swiveled their…

If you're a fan of Quentin Tarantino movies or Elmore Leonard books, you'll love this darkly humorous, true crime thriller set in late-seventies Southern California ...

It was the faces that slayed you that year, when the only reason for a belly-laugh was a Robin Williams standup act.

Not all monsters are born that way. Sometimes, a freak accident changes their fate, and others down the line.

Behind every murder is a tragedy, but also a raw story where a victim intersects with a killer in the culmination of myriad events. Some writers take the just-the-facts-man…

"An entertaining true-crime period piece built around a chillingly odd sociopathic villain."—Kirkus Review

How an obscure song from the Hammer-of-the-Gods band grew from teenage anthem to the heart of Pasadena fiction

Up in the foothills was a wasteland of smoke. You could barely see, and breathing took concentration. Took coughing and eye-rubbing and delusion that we could achieve anything.

Medium The baseball cracked off the bat, vanishing into the smoggy, gray sky over east Pasadena’s Eugene Field Elementary School.

The baseball cracked off the bat, vanishing into the smoggy, gray sky over east Pasadena’s Eugene Field Elementary School. Squinting and craning for it, I became a boy obsessed, a…