Backstage with Ron Onesti

Ron Onesti:  A Stroll Down Memory MacLaine Like so many others, I went from “Sesame Street” to “The Electric Company,” then from “Soundstage” to “NOVA,” then from those Doo Wop shows to “Chicago Tonight.”  WTTW Chicago has always been a big…

Ron Onesti:  “Going Viral”…not a cool thing anymore!   What is going on?  Nobody knows!  This just another scary time in our history.  Being in the hospitality industry owning restaurants and bars myself, plus the theatres, I have fallen victim to…

Ron Onesti: Jason Bonham’s Stairway to a Heavenly Legacy It’s 1975, I’m thirteen years old, and I am just starting to figure out what it is I like musically.  Chicago is going crazy because rock supergroup Led Zeppelin is coming…

Ron Onesti:  Toby Keith…A Red, White and Blue “Storm Trooper” As much of a Rock-N-Roller I am, I really appreciate Country music too!  Many of our customers do too, so peppering our Oldies, Classic Rock, Heavy Metal and Prog Rock experiences…

Ron Onesti:  The Sport of Show Biz Kings As I sit here on a plane to a solo-golf-getaway to Arizona, I am beginning to get into my “3-putt zone”.  I just needed a couple of days after 14 months of shutdown,…

Backstage with The Arcada Theatre’s Ron Onesti The “Souls” of The Arcada As we are painting, sweeping and cleaning in preparation of reopening, we have had many “quiet” nights at The Arcada.  It’s a combination of excitement, anxiety and a…

Ron Onesti:  Take Me Out to the Ballgame…and to the concert hall. I don’t know when I have been more excited about baseball’s opening day than I was this year on April 1st.  They say you appreciate something more when it…

Backstage with The Arcada’s Ron Onesti B.J. Thomas is fighting, we are praying It was announced this week that legendary vocalist B.J. Thomas has been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.  He and his doctors have a positive outlook as…

Ron Onesti:  Ya Mon!  Reggae is where it’s at! Whether you like the music or not, know how to dance to it or not, or simply don’t know anything about its history, it is virtually impossible not to bob and sway…

Backstage with The Arcada Theatre’s Ron Onesti R-E-S-P-E-C-T for  YouTube Many of us who were teenagers before the internet, cell phones and VCRs, are the first ones to remember “The Good ‘Ol Days”.  Technology has become an impersonal approach to…

Ron Onesti: Paul Shaffer…A “Behind the scenes” icon For thirty-three years, America’s number one musical side-kick, Paul Shaffer, took us to commercials and tossed in a quip or two during David Letterman’s opening monologues.  After it all ended, Paul appeared at…

Ron Onesti: This Eagle Soars As A Solo All Eagles’ music, including the solo projects from most of the band members, is some of the best-loved music in history.  The band has sold over 150 million albums and its Greatest Hits…