By Joe Straw Driving up Topanga Canyon Road at a leisurely pace and with fourteen cars behind me I  wonder if I should step on the ga...

By Joe Straw "I met a charming man at Theatre Palisades.  Plagued by a multitude of problems and in a raspy voice he said he would...

By Joe Straw  She hated my cat, Pacino.  My first wife brought him home as a kitten and we were to baby-cat-sit for the weekend.   I gr...

By Joe Straw There were moments in Lavender Love that were shocking and maybe they were un-intentional, nevertheless, those moments grabbe...

L-R John Tartaglia, Mark Shunock, Patrick Scott Lewis, Erich Bergen, and Dennis Christopher - Greg Gorman Photography  by Joe Straw T...

By Joe Straw In the middle of The Merchant of Venice there is an intimate scene with two young lovers sharing a garden space, slightly cl...

By Joe Straw He, who knows all, knows best.   – Joe Straw These days, they just come for you, they don’t ask permission.  Why should the...