April 23, 2026
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Room 17

See Steve Stajich’s "Room 17" Tonight:

A performance of “Room 17” by our own Steve Stajich takes place at the Great Scott Theatre at the MET Theater building, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles tonight.

OpEd: Steve Stajich Weighs in On Metro:

In his brilliant routine on “Stuff,” comedian George Carlin illuminated the contradictions of having possessions and then needing to figure out what to do with them. “Your home is just a place for your stuff, with a roof over it” Carlin points out and then discusses how complicated it can be to go on vacation and enter a vortex of frustration over what to do with all the stuff you brought with you in order to relax on vacation.

Trader Joe's

Stajich: PC vs Politics vs Simple Good Taste:

While it might not have struck you as a major headline, I took great interest in a story published in The Mirror last week concerning a Trader Joe’s employee who is suing the food store chain.

“Chain Reaction” will be dismantled unless several hundred thousand is raised for its restoration and preservation in the next six months.

Preservation Can Be A Chain Reaction: Stajich:

Let me lay my cards out on the discussion table right away: I think it’s a no-brainer to want the city to preserve Paul Conrad’s sculpture “Chain Reaction,” but a no-brainer from a possibly romantic […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

2012 Will Have Us Coming And Going: Stajich:

My advice for the New Year is to get with somebody who knows a good massage therapist because I think our necks are going to need some serious attention. The election process has already given […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

The Best Of 2011: Steve Stajich:

I’m not sure what Top 10 and “Best of” lists accomplish, exactly. They are fun for writers to put together, but would you really change your opinion of a stinker movie because it started showing […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

The Parameters Of No Parameters: Stajich:

Your exploitation may not be my exploitation. I’ve written in this column about the action on the AMC TV series “The Walking Dead”, an often gruesome and arguably repulsive series that often centers on the […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Escaping The Nine Circles Of The Hell-idays: Stajich:

Holiday season, thou shalt have your pound of fruitcake. That’s from Shakespeare’s lesser known “Merchant of Christmas Gifts.” If you have already been out and about Christmas shopping, then right about now you’ve likely invented […]