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Rip Rense spent ten years
reporting for the L.A. Herald-Examiner and the Valley News
(now Daily News of Los Angeles) and
ten more as a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times. As a freelancer, his
feature articles and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune,
Washington Post, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner,
Denver Post, San Diego Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Constitution & Journal, San
Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Milwaukee Journal, Eugene Register-Guard, and other
major U.S. dailies---as well as magazines including TV Guide, People, Los Angeles,
Emmy (the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences magazine) Musician, Performing
Songwriter, and ICE. He was Hollywood columnist for TV Guide
(Canada), official biographer of the Academy of Television's Hall of Fame.
Prior to founding The Rip Post, he wrote an award-winning weekly on-line column, The Rense Retort. His Greater Los Angeles Press
Club-award-winning
column, Riposte, is carried weekly on this site. Mr. Rense
also originated and executive-produced two albums of music for the venerable American a
cappella group, The Persuasions: Frankly A Cappella---The Persuasions Sing Zappa,
and Might as Well--The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead, and
coordinated the group's multi-award-winning children's album, On The Good
Ship Lollipop. He has written extensive liner notes
for albums by Frank Zappa, The Persuasions, Grateful Dead, Paul Zollo,
Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town, and concert program notes for Tom Waits and the
Florida Orchestra. One time classical music reviewer for the Valley
News, he broke the news in the New York Times of the restoration of
a lost Chopin prelude. He has also covered the Beatles
extensively for a variety of publications over 30 years, and is a longtime
contributing editor to Beatlefan, the oldest Beatles publication in
the U.S.. In 1982, while at the
Herald-Examiner, he wrote the first comprehensive look at unreleased
Beatles music, a nine-part series entitled "Off The Beatle Track," which
generated international headlines and won the Valley Press Club Award for
Best Features Series. Mr. Rense is the author two novels,
The Last Byline ("One of the top 40 works of
L.A.fiction"---California Writer) and his latest work,
The Oaks. He includes among his ancestors the Rippeys and Shearers of Ireland, who helped
settle Pennsylvania, fight the Revolutionary War, and combat slavery. He enjoys Laurel
& Hardy, W.C. Fields, and Puccini. He is kind to animals.
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