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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? …

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Ron Onesti: Tony Orlando and Ron So many people say to me, “Boy, I wish I had YOUR job!”  They see me on stage before a show at The Arcada or Des Plaines Theatres, mingling with celebs, and loving the music. …