Scott Paton

As I wind through the hills of Bel Air, I am frantically searching for 1111 Linda Flora Drive, the home of Jan Berry—the former leader of ‘60s surf music duo...

Last night, network TV actually pulled off a whammy with some emotional heft–a side-winding wallop worthy of the generally superior drama series that have po...

Thousands of professional recording studios around the world have shuttered as DIY, computer-based technology has helped make high-end recording a home-based...

For more than a week now, Eric Vinal’s phone has been ringing off the hook. As Film Commissioner for Onondaga County in Central New York, his standard pace ...

Where once upon a time the Main Street of every U.S. city sported a local record store, downloads, streaming and online retailers conspired --and largely suc...

As a child actor, Paul Petersen was a fixture in American living rooms —at least the ones with TV sets–portraying Jeff Stone, the irascible son on “The Donna...

After dominating movie and television production for three-quarters of a century, California saw its lock on location filming and even post-production begin ...

In 2016, Dean Torrence, of '60s singing surf duo Jan & Dean, published a long-awaited autobiography that takes the reader back to the guys' heyday and be...

With each passing year, time seems to take an increasingly heavy toll on our pop culture heroes. Luminaries in the realms of Music, TV and Film are slipping...

"Preparing for disaster –however improbable or inevitable—is essential in preventing that misfortune from being multiplied by a suspension of your operations...

"Employees often view performance evaluation with apprehension—fearful of criticism, recrimination or even threat of termination. Yet, when this practice is ...

It was a mantra drilled into us as school children—“Safety First.” And of all our early “life lessons,” that may be the one most apropos to today’s laundry ...

"When is a 25% loss of inventory an acceptable price of doing business? It doesn’t happen. It’s bad business. Yet for a majority of operators in the texti...

When writing an article where multiple sources are quoted frequently throughout, it can become either unwieldly for the reader to follow who's saying what, o...

TRSA (Textile Rental Services Association) is the largest and oldest trade group serving the Professional Laundry Industry. Throughout 2017, I helped them cr...

My writing career has been divided, roughly, into two equal parts: entertainment-oriented and business marketing & advertising. But like most individual...

As architects of “the Philly Sound”, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff crafted sophisticated funk classics for the O’Jays, Harold Melvin & the Blues, Teddy Pend...

“Is that your final answer?” The phrase has insinuated itself into our collective vocabulary like no other since the days of “Where’s the beef?” Surely Regis...

Dick Clark's impact on pop culture and television programming can't truly be measured. He gently and insidiously helped usher Rock & Roll into the mains...

--Press Release-- November 11, 2011 Entertainment AIDS Alliance -- the Industry's only non-profit dedicated to AIDS research, prevention and services --pre...