By Steve Stajich Let’s start with a look at Santa Monica’s own current status as a “Sanctuary City.” In response to extremist immigration policies that the Trump administration touted both during the election and immediately […]

By Steve Stajich We’re about to make a little jump from electric pencil sharpeners to robotic or self-driving cars. Hang on, as I’ll do the driving here and we’ll see if we end up at […]

By Steve Stajich   Americans aren’t as good with bad memories as they are with the ones that often make us swell with pride. Two of those memories that we tend to keep hidden are […]

By Steven Stajich Bending Shakespeare aside, let me see if I qualify as a “foodie.” By definition, a “foodie” is someone with a particular interest in food, a gourmet. Well, don’t we all having a […]

By Steven Stajich Mortality: Never just the completion of our temporality, but also everything that can come before. It felt a little bit like a brick had been thrown through a window last week when […]

By Steven Stajich As this column wrote in late November, the City of Santa Monica is now pursuing earthquake retrofitting of buildings and homes with renewed vigor. Vigor that no doubt stems from something of […]

By Steven Stajich You promised yourself after the election that you would stop obsessing about you-know-who and his expanding band of Merry Pranksters. But it’s been hard, hasn’t it? And by the time you read […]

By Steven Stajich NOT A SPOILER: Let me first assure you that I have no intention of aligning the demise of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus to the incoming White House administration. That’s […]