Ric Ocasek

The 2013 Florida Film Festival, sponsored by Full Sail University, today announced its popular Midnight Movies and Music Sidebar programs. These special programs screen in addition to competition films during the festival, which runs April 5-14....

By Jay Bobbin One thing is for sure: HBO has one of the most attractive documentaries of the year. How could it be anything but, with such participants as Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs, Paulina Porizkova, Carol Alt, Beverly Johnson, Isabella Rossellini,...

Celso Chavez, the guitarist-keyboardist in local '90s alt-rock band Possum Dixon, died Wednesday night after complications from a staph infection led to pneumonia, his former bandmate Rob Zabrecky confirmed to Pop & Hiss. He was 44....

What a week! Obama's bash, Lost souls at The Cell, and the lunacy at Lolla!... Barack's 'Brawl Room' Blitz! Just how hot was it at the 50th birthday bash for President Obama last week at The Aragon "Brawl Room"? Well, for starters, it was soooo hot...my...

The Bears Looking for a "Sod-mother"... The controversy surrounding the slippery sod at Soldier Field isn't on solid footing behind the scenes. As Bears' and Chicago Park District bigwigs bicker about how best to maintain the field, my football feelers...

Lollapalooza 2011 is a wrap with record daily attendance (90,000), adding up to the most populated festival in North America (270,000) over the three-day weekend. Here’s an hour-by-hour account of Sunday’s action, once again from yours truly...

It was a wrap last week for John Waters' "Hairspray," filmed in part at Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom, South Whitehall Township, last month. Filming for the feature movie was completed Thursday in Baltimore, Md., where the 1962 teen musical comedy...

2.5 stars (out of 4) The name fits. The Cars manufactured sleek, gleaming new-wave jingles, beginning in 1978 with their still-spiffy debut album. Turn on a Cars song, and instantly the world becomes a sea of androgynous boys and girls......

The Cars: The new-wave icons have reunited for their first album and tour since the ‘80s, with original members Ric Ocasek, David Robinson, Greg Hawkes and Elliot Easton still making those jittery rhythms sound impossibly cool, 8 p.m. Wednesday at.....

The Cars defined an era, but it’s now three decades in the rear-view mirror. Not that it mattered Wednesday at the sold-out Riviera. Four of the five original members (founding bassist Ben Orr died in 2000) took their old, new-wave......

The Top 5 Concerts of the Coming week: 1. THE CARS Ric Ocasek, front man for the new wave group The Cars, was quoted nine years after their 1988 split as saying they would never reunite. But in fall 2009,......

On Saturday night, a target audience gathered at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater that would set aflutter the heart of any marketer worth his metrics. The joyful tribe of 15,000 tweens was bound by the bright garb of Hot Topic, Abercrombie & Fitch...