USC is a lot bigger than Whittier Some unforeseen circumstances fell into place (do those two idioms work together? maybe no), and I have...

...the corporate university + extractive media systems sometimes use labor of love discourse to exploit us... but go read these essays...

Los Angeles – Jan 11, 2025 My city is on fire. ​ Last November, I went with a group of friends to see an art project at the Los Angeles...

I went to New York in October for a seminar in ASAP, the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. I did write about improv,...

It has been great to get back into the classroom with face-to-face contact with students. No one wants to talk about the pandemic...

You can get married on a talk show run by a guru who's tight with Mike Tyson. Please, someone, sign up for this.

[I wrote this in January 2014 on thisblueangel.com. Original comments screenshotted at the bottom.] At the end of 2013, I sat with S....

Sometime in college, when I was taking a film class, I wandered into a bookstore and opened one of those books that existed before the...

I’m no longer Editor-in-Chief at LA Review of Books. I have stepped down to pursue other writing projects. I’m proud of the work that I...

(posted in 2020) My brilliant, dashing, loving father, Charles Chihara, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,...

We rented a van and went on an epic road trip to the Grand Canyon, Moab desert, Arches National Park, the four corners area, Colorado...