Rea went to the West Coast for college, earning an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
[2][4] Other periodicals for which he has written include: Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Family Fun,[2] Crawdaddy!, Music World, Phonograph Record Magazine, High Fidelity, Folk Scene, Los Angeles, New West, Trouser Press, Oui, Chic[disambiguation needed], Record World, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
[1] Rea was an adjunct professor in the Cinema and Television program at the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University.
It received good reviews from The Telegraph (UK)[8] and the San Francisco Chronicle.
[12] Rea lived in Los Angeles at the start of his career,[4] but he and his wife have long resided in Center City, Philadelphia.