Justin's book, Paradise Springs, was translated into French and published in France by Editions de l'Aube. This is the first time one of his books has been translated into a foreign language. Click here to read more and order.
In this 25th episode of "Well Read," host and journalist Justin Chapman interviews A.J. Hartley, author of dozens of novels including several he co-authored with blink-182's Tom DeLonge: Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows, Sekret Machines: A Fire Within, Trinity, and their latest that's just out, Time Rider. Watch the full episode below:
Read the November 2025 issue of Justin Chapman's free Substack email newsletter, featuring the video of Sid Kirkpatrick's memorial, the French language version of Justin's book Paradise Springs, the latest episode of "Well Read with Justin Chapman" featuring an interview with James Bond continuation author Raymond Benson, the latest episode of "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman" featuring an interview with author and Pasadena Police Department's Senior Communications Coordinator Susana Porras, book recommendations, and more.
https://justinchapman.substack.com/p/justins-newsletter-november-2025
Justin Chapman writes, produces, and hosts an award-winning monthly TV talk show on Pasadena Media's TV channel, called "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman," formerly known as "NewsRap Local with Justin Chapman." The thirty-fifth episode aired Friday, November 28, 2025, and featured a discussion with Susana Porras, author, community organizer, and Pasadena Police Department Senior Communications Coordinator. Watch the full episode below:
In this 24th episode of "Well Read," host and journalist Justin Chapman interviews Raymond Benson, author of a new Felix Leiter novel, The Hook and the Eye. Benson also authored six James Bond continuation novels, three Bond movie adaptation novels, several Bond short stories, and The James Bond Bedside Companion. Watch the full episode below:
Justin Chapman has been nominated as a finalist again in the Los Angeles Press Club's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards! This time for the podcast version of his interview with Irish republican politician Gerry Adams on his show "Well Read with Justin Chapman." Category: One-on-One Interview, Arts/Culture Personalities). The awards ceremony will be held on December 7, 2025.
Read the October 2025 issue of Justin Chapman's free Substack email newsletter, featuring his LA Press Club journalism award nomination, his article on Ireland in Culture Honey Magazine, his obituaries of Sidney Kirkpatrick in Pasadena Now and the Village Times Herald, the latest episode of "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman" with an interview with Pasadena Humane Society President and CEO Chris Ramon, book recommendations, and more.
https://justinchapman.substack.com/p/justins-newsletter-october-2025
Justin Chapman writes, produces, and hosts an award-winning monthly TV talk show on Pasadena Media's TV channel, called "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman," formerly known as "NewsRap Local with Justin Chapman." The thirty-fourth episode aired Friday, October 24, 2025, and featured a discussion with Chris Ramon, president and CEO of Pasadena Humane Society. Watch the full episode below:
Pasadena Now, 10/21/2025
Pasadena Media’s award-winning local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” continues this Friday at 5 p.m., featuring guest Chris Ramon, president and CEO of the Pasadena Humane Society.
Born and raised in La Cañada, Ramon began volunteering at Pasadena Humane as a high school student. Over a decade ago, he returned to animal welfare, holding leadership roles at Michelson Found Animals and serving on the boards of several animal welfare organizations. Since joining Pasadena Humane in 2018, he has served in multiple leadership positions, including Vice President, Chief Programs Officer and Interim CEO.
As Interim CEO, Ramon guided the organization through the Eaton Fire disaster, which had a devastating impact on many of the communities the organization serves. Pasadena Humane assisted more than 1,500 animals in need and provided emergency care to pets suffering from severe burns. Pasadena Humane was founded in 1903.
“Pasadena Monthly” airs at 5 p.m. PT on the fourth Friday of every month on Pasadena Media’s Arroyo Channel and streaming apps, available on channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, channel 32 on Charter Spectrum, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku. The show is written, hosted and produced by Chapman, directed and edited by Jeffrey Stanfill, supervised by producer Jasiri Jenkins-Glenn, executive produced by Chris Miller and chief executive produced by George Falardeau, CEO and executive director of Pasadena Media.
“‘Pasadena Monthly’ is must-watch television each month for everyone who cares about this city,” Falardeau said.
Last year, “Pasadena Monthly” won a 1st place award in the Talk Show category at the Alliance for Community Media West’s WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards. Chapman also won a 3rd place journalism award in the Talk/Public Affairs category of the LA Press Club’s 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, for hosting “Pasadena Monthly.” He has won a dozen LA Press Club journalism awards, including three 1st place awards. His other TV show, “Well Read with Justin Chapman,” won a 1st place Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media this year.
In June, Chapman was a finalist in the Local Political/Government Reporting (Broadcast) category of the LA Press Club journalism awards for “Pasadena Monthly.”
Guests on “Pasadena Monthly” (and its previous iteration, “NewsRap Local”) have included Congress member Judy Chu; Congress member Adam Schiff; Assembly member Chris Holden; Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo; Pasadena city manager Miguel Márquez; LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger; JPL director Dr. Laurie Leshin; former Congress member Katie Hill; and many others.
Chapman was the youngest elected official in LA County when he served on the Altadena Town Council at age 19. He has served on a number of local boards and wrote hundreds of articles for dozens of print and digital publications, including KPCC/LAist, Alta Journal, Huffington Post, LA Weekly, Irish Post, Berkeley Political Review, Pasadena Weekly, Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Now and many others. He is the author of Saturnalia and Paradise Springs. He was a professional child actor who starred in dozens of movies, TV shows, commercials and plays. He previously served as Communications Officer for USC Annenberg’s Pacific Council on International Policy think tank and currently serves as the District 6 Council Liaison/Field Representative to Pasadena Councilmember Steve Madison.
Learn more at justindouglaschapman.com and pasadenamedia.org.
Read the September 2025 issue of Justin Chapman's free Substack email newsletter, featuring his reflections on the passing of author Sidney Kirkpatrick, an episode of the show "Power of One" featuring Justin, the latest episode of "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman" with an interview with author Chip Jacobs, book recommendations, and more.
https://justinchapman.substack.com/p/justins-newsletter-september-2025
Justin Chapman writes, produces, and hosts an award-winning monthly TV talk show on Pasadena Media's TV channel, called "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman," formerly known as "NewsRap Local with Justin Chapman." The thirty-third episode aired Friday, September 26, 2025, and featured a discussion with Chip Jacobs, author of Arroyo and Later Days. Watch the full episode below:
Local Author Chip Jacobs to Join Friday’s Episode of “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman”
Pasadena Now, 9/22/2025
Pasadena Media’s award-winning local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” continues this Friday at 5 p.m., featuring guest Chip Jacobs, author of Later Days and Arroyo.
Jacobs is a Pasadena-based journalist and author of several books, including Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles; The People’s Republic of Chemicals; Strange as It Seems: The Impossible Life of Gordon Zahler; The Ascension of Jerry: Murder, Hitmen and the Making of L.A. Muckraker Jerry Schneiderman; The Vicodin Thieves: Biopsying L.A.’s Grifters, Gloryhounds and Goliaths; The Darkest Glare: A True Story of Murder, Blackmail, and Real Estate Greed in 1979 Los Angeles; and Black Wednesday Boys.
Later Days is Jacobs’ latest book, an evocative follow-up to his LA Times bestselling debut novel Arroyo and a gripping tale of brotherhood, recklessness and footloose souls in the anything goes of late-seventies Southern California. Later Days was published by Rare Bird Books on September 16, and the book launch event was held at Vroman’s on September 18. Jacobs has a number of other book events lined up, including on Nov. 1 at the Linda Vista Library. Learn more at chipjacobs.com.
“Pasadena Monthly” airs at 5 p.m. PT on the fourth Friday of every month on Pasadena Media’s Arroyo Channel and streaming apps, available on channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, channel 32 on Charter Spectrum, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku. The show is written, hosted and produced by Chapman, directed and edited by Jeffrey Stanfill, supervised by producer Jasiri Jenkins-Glenn, executive produced by Chris Miller and chief executive produced by George Falardeau, CEO and executive director of Pasadena Media.
“‘Pasadena Monthly’ is must-watch television each month for everyone who cares about this city,” Falardeau said.
Last year, “Pasadena Monthly” won a 1st place award in the Talk Show category at the Alliance for Community Media West’s WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards. Chapman also won a 3rd place journalism award in the Talk/Public Affairs category of the LA Press Club’s 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, for hosting “Pasadena Monthly.” He has won a dozen LA Press Club journalism awards, including three 1st place awards. His other TV show, “Well Read with Justin Chapman,” won a 1st place Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media this year.
In June, Chapman was a finalist in the Local Political/Government Reporting (Broadcast) category of the LA Press Club journalism awards for “Pasadena Monthly.”
Guests on “Pasadena Monthly” (and its previous iteration, “NewsRap Local”) have included Congress member Judy Chu; Congress member Adam Schiff; Assembly member Chris Holden; Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo; Pasadena city manager Miguel Márquez; LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger; JPL director Dr. Laurie Leshin; former Congress member Katie Hill; and many others.
Chapman was the youngest elected official in LA County when he served on the Altadena Town Council at age 19. He has served on a number of local boards and wrote hundreds of articles for dozens of print and digital publications, including KPCC/LAist, Alta Journal, Huffington Post, LA Weekly, Irish Post, Berkeley Political Review, Pasadena Weekly, Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Now and many others. He is the author of Saturnalia and Paradise Springs. He was a professional child actor who starred in dozens of movies, TV shows, commercials and plays. He previously served as Communications Officer for USC Annenberg’s Pacific Council on International Policy think tank and currently serves as the District 6 Council Liaison/Field Representative to Pasadena Councilmember Steve Madison.
Learn more at justindouglaschapman.com and pasadenamedia.org.
Read the August 2025 issue of Justin Chapman's free Substack email newsletter, featuring the latest episode of "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman" with an interview with the president of Caltech, a Pasadena Media news brief about his awards and work in 2025, book recommendations, and more.
Justin Chapman writes, produces, and hosts an award-winning monthly TV talk show on Pasadena Media's TV channel, called "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman," formerly known as "NewsRap Local with Justin Chapman." The thirty-second episode aired Friday, August 29, 2025, and featured a discussion with Dr. Thomas Rosenbaum, president of Caltech. Watch the full episode below:
Caltech President Rosenbaum to Appear on ‘Pasadena Monthly’
Pasadena Now, 8/25/2025
Pasadena Media’s award-winning local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” continues this Friday at 5 p.m., featuring guest Dr. Thomas Rosenbaum, president of Caltech.
Dr. Rosenbaum is the ninth president of the California Institute of Technology and a Professor of Physics. He is an expert on the quantum mechanical nature of materials, conducting research at Bell Laboratories, IBM Watson Research Center, and the University of Chicago, where he served as Vice President for Research and for Argonne National Laboratory and then provost, before moving to Caltech in 2014. He is set to retire as president of Caltech at the end of the 2025-26 academic year but will remain at his Caltech laboratory.
“Pasadena Monthly” airs at 5 p.m. PT on the fourth Friday of every month on Pasadena Media’s Arroyo Channel and streaming apps, available on channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, channel 32 on Charter Spectrum, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku. The show is written, hosted and produced by Chapman, directed and edited by Jeffrey Stanfill, supervised by producer Jasiri Jenkins-Glenn, executive produced by Chris Miller and chief executive produced by George Falardeau, CEO and executive director of Pasadena Media.
“‘Pasadena Monthly’ is must-watch television each month for everyone who cares about this city,” Falardeau said.
Last year, “Pasadena Monthly” won a 1st place award in the Talk Show category at the Alliance for Community Media West’s WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards. Chapman also won a 3rd place journalism award in the Talk/Public Affairs category of the LA Press Club’s 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, for hosting “Pasadena Monthly.” He has won a dozen LA Press Club journalism awards, including three 1st place awards. His other TV show, “Well Read with Justin Chapman,” won a 1st place Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media this year.
In June, Chapman was a finalist in the Local Political/Government Reporting (Broadcast) category of the LA Press Club journalism awards for “Pasadena Monthly.”
Guests on “Pasadena Monthly” (and its previous iteration, “NewsRap Local”) have included Congress member Judy Chu; Congress member Adam Schiff; Assembly member Chris Holden; Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo; Pasadena city manager Miguel Márquez; LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger; JPL director Dr. Laurie Leshin; former Congress member Katie Hill; and many others.
Chapman was the youngest elected official in LA County when he served on the Altadena Town Council at age 19. He has served on a number of local boards and wrote hundreds of articles for dozens of print and digital publications, including KPCC/LAist, Alta Journal, Huffington Post, LA Weekly, Irish Post, Berkeley Political Review, Pasadena Weekly, Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Now and many others. He is the author of Saturnalia and Paradise Springs. He was a professional child actor who starred in dozens of movies, TV shows, commercials and plays. He previously served as Communications Officer for USC Annenberg’s Pacific Council on International Policy think tank and currently serves as the District 6 Council Liaison/Field Representative to Pasadena Councilmember Steve Madison.
Learn more at justindouglaschapman.com and pasadenamedia.org.
Read the July 2025 issue of Justin Chapman's free Substack email newsletter, featuring an interview he did about Pasadena's historic preservation, Pasadena Now's coverage of his Paradise Springs book talk and the video of the full event, the latest episode of "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman," book recommendations, and more.
https://justinchapman.substack.com/p/justins-newsletter-july-2025
Justin Chapman writes, produces, and hosts an award-winning monthly TV talk show on Pasadena Media's TV channel, called "Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman," formerly known as "NewsRap Local with Justin Chapman." The thirty-first episode aired Friday, July 25, 2025, and featured a discussion with Tom Coston, president of the Light Bringer Project and czar of the Doo Dah Parade. Watch the full episode below:
Doo Dah Parade Czar Tom Coston to Join Friday’s Episode of “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman”
Pasadena Now, 7/25/2025
Pasadena Media’s award-winning local TV talk show “Pasadena Monthly with Justin Chapman” continues this Friday at 5 p.m., featuring guest Tom Coston, president of the Light Bringer Project.
The Light Bringer Project, a nonprofit, a Pasadena-based arts organization founded in 1990 that builds communities through the power of the arts and education, produces the Doo Dah Parade, the Pasadena Chalk Festival, LitFest, and many other iconic Pasadena events.
Coston has also held leadership positions on the boards of many high-profile nonprofit organizations, including Room 13 International, Villa Esperanza Services, DayOne, Leadership Pasadena, Mothers Club Family Learning Center, Arroyo Seco Foundation, and Institute for Urban Research and Development.
“Pasadena Monthly” airs at 5 p.m. PT on the fourth Friday of every month on Pasadena Media’s Arroyo Channel and streaming apps, available on channel 99 on AT&T U-verse, channel 32 on Charter Spectrum, YouTube, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku. The show is written, hosted and produced by Chapman, directed and edited by Jeffrey Stanfill, supervised by producer Jasiri Jenkins-Glenn, executive produced by Chris Miller and chief executive produced by George Falardeau, CEO and executive director of Pasadena Media.
“‘Pasadena Monthly’ is must-watch television each month for everyone who cares about this city,” Falardeau said.
Last year, “Pasadena Monthly” won a 1st place award in the Talk Show category at the Alliance for Community Media West’s WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards. Chapman also won a 3rd place journalism award in the Talk/Public Affairs category of the LA Press Club’s 66th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards, for hosting “Pasadena Monthly.” He has won a dozen LA Press Club journalism awards, including three 1st place awards. His other TV show, “Well Read with Justin Chapman,” won a 1st place Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media this year.
On June 22, Chapman was a finalist in the Local Political/Government Reporting (Broadcast) category of the LA Press Club journalism awards for “Pasadena Monthly.”
Guests on “Pasadena Monthly” (and its previous iteration, “NewsRap Local”) have included Congress member Judy Chu; Congress member Adam Schiff; Assembly member Chris Holden; Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo; Pasadena city manager Miguel Márquez; LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger; JPL director Dr. Laurie Leshin; former Congress member Katie Hill; and many others.
Chapman was the youngest elected official in LA County when he served on the Altadena Town Council at age 19. He has served on a number of local boards and wrote hundreds of articles for dozens of print and digital publications, including KPCC/LAist, Alta Journal, Huffington Post, LA Weekly, Irish Post, Berkeley Political Review, Pasadena Weekly, Pasadena Star-News, Pasadena Now and many others. He is the author of Saturnalia and Paradise Springs. He was a professional child actor who starred in dozens of movies, TV shows, commercials and plays. He previously served as Communications Officer for USC Annenberg’s Pacific Council on International Policy think tank and currently serves as the District 6 Council Liaison/Field Representative to Pasadena Councilmember Steve Madison.
Learn more at justindouglaschapman.com and pasadenamedia.org.