My Fantastic Place

Squeeze was the sound I’d been waiting for from the black…


The Boom that Blew the Petals off the Rose City

South Pasadena Review Square-jawed and persuasive,…


1979 L.A. True-Crime In Song

Medium It was the faces that slayed you that year, when the…


The Accidental True Crime Writer

The Los Angeles Review of Books WHEN MY CITY EDITOR yelled…


Killing Machines: How Car Culture in 1970s Los Angeles Fueled a Terrifying String of Murders

CrimeReads During the late-1960s, with Los Angeles’ skies…


The Man In The Light

Medium The baseball cracked off the bat, vanishing into the…


Who’s Been Using My Bin?

Los Angeles Times Few things unite a neighborhood like an…


What if Republicans Closed the E.P.A.?

New York Times In national politics, California may be seen…


What Does (Fidel Vargas) Want?

San Gabriel Valley Tribune At 26, the nation’s youngest…


The Man Who Would Be King (Part I)

Pasadena Weekly He’s been called everything from civil…