Backstage with Ron Onesti

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…

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…

Ron Onesti:  Mary Wilson, Martha Reeves and other Motown Memories Man, as they say, it’s tough getting old.  It’s not really the aches and pains, the advances in technology or the expansion of my “boyish figure” that bothers me as the…

Ron Onesti:  Our salute to African American Heritage Month…Arcada-style! Music as a cultural medium has always interested me, even though in high school, music history wasn’t as interesting as it has become over the years.  And much of the reason for…

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? …