iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2024 Presented by Capital One Rings in The Holiday Season with Annual Star-Studded Concert   Katy Perry, Tate McRae, twenty one pilots, Teddy Swims, Meghan Trainor, The Kid LAROI and more   lead all-star lineup in New York   at Madison Square Garden.   ABC will exclusively air the ‘iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2024’ holiday special on December 18 and next day on Hulu iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour Presented by Capital One lineups will be announced thro

Big Star – Ardmore Music Hall – Ardmore, PA – December 6, 2022 Perhaps you’ve heard the legend. An unknown rock band puts out a debut album on an imprint on of a record label more well-known for rhythm-based artists. The album gets good critical buzz, but only sells a handful of copies. The group releases a follow-up, which also barely makes a ripple. Members of the band split off, and the third release turns out to be essentially a solo album by the original lead singer. Th

5 Seconds of Summer – York Fair – York, PA – September 13, 2018 – Photo by Kaiti Fleeger © 2018 5 Seconds of Summer – York Fair – York, PA – September 13, 2018 There’s something magical in those first few seconds after the lights dim, signaling the band’s arrival on stage. Your ears ring and fill with static as the crowd erupts with elated screams. The set opens with “Babylon,” before Luke, Calum, Ashton, and Michael have even taken their rightful spots on stage. The crowd, p

Q102 Jingle Ball at the Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA December 5, 2012 OneRepublic, The Wanted, Karmin, Bridgit Mendler, Hot Chelle Rae, Ed Sheeran, Cher Lloyd and Olly Murs Backstage at the 2012 Q102 Jingle Ball – Rockin’ in Philly By Jackie Speiss and Deborah Wagner When Q102’s Jingle Ball holiday concert rocked Philadelphia the other night, some of music’s big stars hit the stage in front of nearly nineteen thousand screaming fans.  The star-studded lineup brought B

THE ROOMMATE (2011) Starring Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet, Aly Michalka, Danneel Harris, Frances Fisher, Tomas Arana, Billy Zane, Nina Dobrev, Matt Lanter, Cherilyn Wilson and Katerina Graham. Screenplay by Sonny Mallhi. Directed by Christian E. Christiansen. Distributed by Screen Gems. 93 minutes. Rated PG-13. Sometimes it is amusing to imagine how movies actually get green-lit – what reasoning went into creating a film. However, sometimes you can almost pictu

Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer and Parker Posey Consider This by Jay S. Jacobs Working on the outskirts of the Hollywood movie community, actor-writer-director Christopher Guest has put together the most consistently funny troupe in films. Specializing in improvisational movies – many which are hilarious turns on documentaries – Guest has made some of the great comedies of the last twenty-five years.  It all started when he and his partners Ha

Five for FIGHTING It's not EASY by Jay S. JACOBS Remember when popular music could actually say something? A tune was a mirror that we held up to our world. The lyrics were humorous or tragic or whimsical or heartbreakingly sincere. Songs spoke of love, war, relationships, politics, lust, and death. They would climb the heights or plunge the depths. John Ondrasik, the lead singer and songwriter of Five for Fighting, remembers. In his own small way, he’s trying to contin