By Steven Stajich It was dinner hour on August 4, a Friday summer night with plenty of tourists and others checking out Main Street in Santa Monica. Then, shots were fired. Police arrived to find […]

 By Steve Stajich   Santa Monica has a proud heritage of producing Eagle Scouts. As recently as June of this year, Santa Monica’s Troop 2 saw four local teen agers receive the highest rank one […]

By Steve Stajich   Actor Martin Landau has passed and I think his life and career say quite a bit about the term “working actor.” I’m recommending that actors and especially my own actor friends […]

By Steve Stajich   The news from last week’s G20 Summit seemed to demonstrate that even that union of nations can have a hard time sustaining a sense of global community… especially when one of […]

By Steve Stajich   Baby Boomers may someday tally-up their impressive list of accomplishments as a generation. It would certainly make a good six-part series for CNN: “Earth goes Boom!” might possibly be the title […]

By Steve Stajich   First, let me acknowledge that there are always hesitations before deciding to write, once again, about guns in America. Not just for me and the space I am gratefully granted here […]

By Steve Stajich   One of the many affectations of the 60’s television series “Batman,” and there were many, was the tendency for Robin the Boy Wonder (actor Burt Ward) to exclaim something with the […]