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 7, 2025
Book Cover - 2D - Later Days copy
Strike up the band: here's my next book! In an evocative…
November 26, 2024
Highway Killers in the Land of Concrete
Growing up in northeast LA County, I knew one set of…
October 25, 2023
The Brown Air Prequel for our Climate Change World
Why the Sky Disappeared, and Why L.A.'s Smog-Choked…
January 4, 2022
Chip’s Year in Writing & Creating
For me, creativity isn't just what I do. It's who I am, and…
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…
July 30, 2021
My Fantastic Place – An Essay
Go Further: More Appreciations of Power Pop Squeeze was the…
June 14, 2021
“The Accidental True Crime Writer” – my Los Angeles Review of Books essay
It wasn’t until one day in 1998, strolling along Hollywood…