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Backstage with Ron Onesti: Baby It’s Cold Outside

January 27, 2023

Ron Onesti:  “Baby It’s Cold Outside”, but here’s how to stay warm! How many times have we sat on our couches looking outside into our snow-peaked yards and stayed home from work as Chi-town-area temps hit sixty-below-zero with the wind chill? …

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: Was Abraham Lincoln A Rocker?

January 20, 2023

Ron Onesti:  Was Abraham Lincoln a rocker? My “Backstage with Ron Onesti” column is usually about my behind-the-scenes experiences with entertainers combined with a bit of education and a little twist at the end.  This foray into an American time machine…

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: Music-Bowl Champs

January 13, 2023

Ron Onesti:  Music-Bowl Champs As I have mentioned time and time again, I am the most fortunate guy on the planet!  I get to be around the music of my childhood, prepare my favorite recipes and meet many of my idols….

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Backstage With Ron Onesti: “The Raging Bull”…A Sweet Guy Deep Down

January 6, 2023

Ron Onesti:  “The Raging Bull”… a sweet guy deep down Each week, so many of you turn to the Daily Herald’s Time Out section to see which Rock ’N Roller “Backstage” story I will have.  But my behind-the-scenes escapades are not…

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello…to 2023!

December 30, 2022

Ron Onesti:  You say goodbye, I say hello…to 2023! This being my final column of 2022, I just wanted to heartfully thank all of you who have loyally kept up with my backstage escapades each week.  I never really thought anyone…

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: A Little “George Bailey” In All Of Us

December 23, 2022

Ron Onesti: A little “George Bailey” in all of us “Wizard Of Oz”, “Casablanca”, “Citizen Kane”, “Gone With The Wind”, “The Godfather”, the exclusive list goes on with timeless classic films that have touched the hearts of generations of movie fans…

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Ron Onesti: Dick Biondi…Chicago’s Very Own Music Treasure

December 16, 2022

Ron Onesti:  Dick Biondi…Chicago’s Very Own Music Treasure There is a cup of hot cocoa in front of a crackling fire in the fall, there is peacefully floating on a raft on a small river in Tennessee, and there is sundown…

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: RESPECT for YouTube

December 9, 2022

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 daily life.  Even calculators took away…

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NEWS RELEASE: “God Bless the U.S.A.” singer Lee Greenwood concert to salute veterans at THE ARCADA THEATRE

December 2, 2022

“God Bless the U.S.A.” singer Lee Greenwood concert to salute veterans at THE ARCADA THEATRE   ST. CHARLES, ILL.:    The Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois has announced what should prove to be an historic live concert event, “Proud to be an…

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: Memories of a Soft-Spoken Hollywood Heavyweight

December 2, 2022

Ron Onesti:  Memories of a Soft-Spoken Hollywood Heavyweight As a proud Italian American, it is challenging to support television shows and films that perpetuate the stereotypes about Italians and Italian Americans being associated with the Mafia.  The reality was that fewer…

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Backstage with Ron Onesti: Accordions, Watermelons, and Comedy Icons

November 20, 2022

Ron Onesti:  Accordions, Watermelons and Comedy Icons For the most part, my place in the entertainment biz is surrounded by music.  From Jazz-Age, Prohibition-Era tunes to the Big Bands of the 1940s, Doo Wop of the 1950s to the Psychadelics and…

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Backstage with Ro Onesti: M&Ms USED to be my favorite candy!

November 11, 2022

Ron Onesti:  M&Ms USED to be my favorite candy! It’s been a whirlwind!!!  We have had soooo many shows recently, even more than normal!  Gladys Knight, Christopher Cross, Paul Anka, Tony Danza, Chazz Palminteri, Tony Orlando and John Waite were among…

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