Ron Onesti:  Music People on the Street I have been in the music game for a long time.  It’s a great biz to be in, especially in my situation that involves literally all types of music.  I can connect with pretty…

Ron Onesti:  Dick Biondi Celebrates HIS “Big 89” 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:  Frankie Valli and the mystery of the Crown Royal A big part of the “fun” for me when I produce shows is being able to work with the acts that I love.  At fifty-nine years of age and a…

Ron Onesti:  “Did I ever tell you about the time…?” I have been writing this “Backstage with…” column in the Daily Herald for about three years now.  I have been blessed with a thirty-five-year-plus career in the entertainment biz and it…

Backstage with The Arcada Theatre’s Ron Onesti Jerry Lewis Secretly Shares A Moment With His Father Besides presenting shows with some of the biggest names in entertainment today at The Arcada Theatre, one of my favorite things to do there…

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,…

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: 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…