Q102’s Buster Champions Autism Acceptance Month with Fundraising Campaign and Community Event Benefiting Children’s Specialized Hospital Philadelphia, PA – April 16, 2026 – iHeartMedia Philadelphia’s Q102 , Philly’s #1 Hit Music Station, announced that its on-air personality Buster will lead a powerful community effort to support children and families impacted by autism through a special fundraising and awareness campaign benefiting Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH) Fo

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

Natasha Calis Reaching for the SkyMed by Jay S. Jacobs Imagine this. You’re a hot, rising young professional who has made a splash in your job in your big city hometown in British Columbia. Then you are offered an exciting, but daunting opportunity – to move to the wilds of Northern Manitoba and take on an arguably harder, but potentially very rewarding gig. The problem is that the whole atmosphere is different than where you are from, and you are being thrown together with p

Katie Kelly and Paola Andino As Pure as Driven Sno Babies By Jay S. Jacobs Drug abuse has been a scourge in America – in the world – for generations. It often has tragic results for the users, and there are no simple answers to the problem. The new film Sno Babies takes a hard look at the dilemma, showing the lives of Kristen (Katie Kelly of Murder in the Vineyard) and Hannah (Paola Andino of Queen of the South). They are two smart high school students who live in a middle-cl

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

Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2018 Slime Time at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards By Samantha Speiss John Cena at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2018 After four-weeks of voting, the 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards splashed onto the screens of millions. And though kids’ (and adults’) attention spans can be minuscule, Nickelodeon left everyone wanting more. The 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards were held on March 24, 2018, at the Forum in Inglewood, California. For the second year in a

Cobie Smulders at the New York Press Day for “Unexpected” at the Crosby Street Hotel, June 23, 2015. Photo copyright 2015 Jay S. Jacobs. Cobie Smulders Learns What to Expect from Unexpected by Jay S. Jacobs In the crazy, glitzy world of show business, it doesn’t take much for a little fame to go to someone’s head. That’s why its always nice to meet a TV or movie star who is completely grounded, just a normal, nice person doing what they love. Take Cobie Smulders. Smulders sp

Ronstadt Generations Ronstadt Generations Rooted In Family By Mark Mussari “Though leaves are many,” the Irish Poet William Butler Yeats once observed, “the root is one.” Sit down to talk with the members of Ronstadt Generations — Michael J. Ronstadt and his sons Michael G. and Petie — and you’ll feel the strength of their roots in Tucson, Arizona. In the late 1980s, Linda Ronstadt — the family’s most celebrated member and Michael J.’s older sister — explored the family’s Mex

Steve Lukather of Toto Still Holding the Line 35 Years In by Jay S. Jacobs There is nothing novel about a veteran band reuniting for one last bask in their past glories. However, in their 35th anniversary tour, 70s and 80s hitmakers Toto are getting back together for all the right reasons. Original bassist Mike Porcaro was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in 2007. Medical expenses piled up quickly. Therefore, to help an old friend, original band members Steve Lukather, Dav

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

Lee Toland Krieger, Rashida Jones and Will McCormack at the New York Press Day for “Celeste and Jesse Forever.” Rashida Jones, Will McCormack and Lee Toland Krieger Reinventing the Romantic Comedy with Celeste and Jesse Forever by Jay S. Jacobs You think you know Rashida Jones, don’t you? Sweet, smart, pretty, quirky young actress who has been rising steadily through the ranks for the last decade or so. Daughter of music legend Quincy Jones and Mod Squad beauty Peggy Lipton.

Jordana Brewster, Josh Henderson, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Brenda Strong, Jesse Metcalfe and Julie Gonzalo in “Dallas.” Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Jesse Metcalfe and Josh Henderson Return to Southfork by Jay S. Jacobs Everything old is new again. Therefore, it should come as no real surprise that thirty years after the world was rapt with speculation about “Who shot J.R.?” that Dallas is coming back. That’s right, TNT is returning to Southfork Ranch to bring u

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

Amy Adams stars in “Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day.” Amy Adams Miss Adams Lives Out Her Dreams by Jay S. Jacobs It is way too obvious to say that Amy Adams is having an enchanted year – and yet at the same time it is absolutely, inescapably accurate. Since her first appearance on film in the 1999 beauty pageant comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous with Kirstie Alley, Adams has worked pretty steadily in film, often doing well in films what were not quite up to her talents, like The Ex, T

Once Around Dublin's Streets with Glen Hansard & John Carney by Brad Balfour Fashioning a hybrid from two cinematic genres can either pay off or be a profound failure. In the case of John Carney's debut feature, Once, he succeeds handily. Maybe that's because he enlisted his longtime pal and former band member, Glen Hansard, lead singer of Ireland's hot rock band, The Frames, to play the lead character in his entrancing folk-rock fable. Hansard formed The Frames in 1990, as

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

Little Big Town Little Big Town Four Distinct Voices in Perfect Harmony By Mark Mussari As a vocal group Little Big Town exists on a rarified plane. The country-rock quartet – whose album The Road to Here has already sold over 500,000 copies and spawned a mega-hit in the stomping Southern anthem “Boondocks” – consists of two women and two men. That would be singular enough in the country field, but all four members of this powerhouse group, who also write much of their own mu

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

Ron Dante at the Santa Monica Retrofest in 1999. Ron Dante The Voice Behind the Archies Talks About a Long Career Singing and Producing Great Pop Music by Jay S. Jacobs Ron Dante has always been one of those pop‑music Zeligs – the guy whose voice you’ve heard a thousand times without ever quite realizing it. From novelty hits and Brill Building demos to cartoon superstardom and platinum‑level production work, his career has zig‑zagged through some of the most unexpected