Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.

Step aside, Kansas City Chiefs apologists… You know who you are; Kansas City Star columnists Sam Mellinger and Vahe Gregorian. Because quite frankly, disingenuous front page headlines like “Loss certainly stings, but it doesn’t have to be the defining moment … Continue reading →

What’s that dated axiom about throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks? I’m no legal expert, but after spending more than two hours pouring over the legal filings between former Kansas City Star columnist Steve Penn and KC’s newspaper … Continue reading →

The legal bees in the 18th and Grand news hive have been buzzing for weeks…. That’s because axed Kansas City Star columnist Steve Penn‘s defamation lawsuit against the newspaper is set to go to trial on Monday. Penn, you may recall, … Continue reading →

Doctor Who, Dr. John, Dr. Kildare, Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Doolittle…to name but a few. However with all due respect, those dudes were all fictional, as in not real people. You may even have heard of the Rug Doctor, but that’s just … Continue reading →

And then there was one… Just like that SoundFX, one of Kansas City’s two remaining high end audio video stores closed it doors recently. No fanfare, no fond farewells, just rumors of an ugly split between owners who reportedly were … Continue reading →

About Chiefs star Dwayne Bowe‘s pot bust Sunday in Riverside… On one hand, it’s no big deal, on the other, it’s ridiculously stupid, the truth lying somewhere in between. So says comedy club impresario and sports scribe Craig Glazer. “What … Continue reading →

Dedicated reader Chuck Lowe weighed in this morning with the following piece dedicated to Veteran’s Day… “This Veteran’s Day we honor those who in peril on the sea, in harms way on land and guarding us from above, serve with distinction, … Continue reading →

Was a time massive tropical storms that could kill as many as 10,000 people would have been but a blip on the local news radar… No mas. Kansas City may not enjoy the majesty of mountains or the allure of … Continue reading →

Seeing was believing… And unless you’d witnessed the estrogens fueled wilding by the women of Kansas City who stormed Stanford’s Thursday night, you might not have believed it. Short of a full scale riot with multiple arrests, it was about as … Continue reading →

It’s hard to write a correction when it’s someone else’s mistake… That said, Mary Sanchez’s Monday column, “No Racial Agenda To ‘Slave’ Rollout” sure looks like a correction for a bogus letter that slipped through the Star’s editorial safety net late last week. … Continue reading →

Not everyone at 18th and Grand wants to wait around until it’s their turn to take a bullet… To the ranks of volunteer newspaper exiters, Joe Posnanski, Dan Margolies & Bill Dalton, add the name Lee Hill Kavanaugh. The touchy-feely, trombone-playing writer … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, it was the Stone Age… Nobody knew nothing about newspapers in driveways…or driveways even. No one drove Fiats. And what passed for social media back then was probably something akin to some caveman dude clubbing a … Continue reading →

From first to worst – and then back – in 20 easy years… That basically charts the popularity of Ted Owens, the 84 year-old former KU basketball head coach who returned to Lawrence yesterday for a book signing at the Kansas Union Ballroom … Continue reading →

“Charlie Weis; Wait until season’s end to judge,” reads the headline on KU Sports.com… While that’s likely how things will play out, football scribe Craig Glazer has a different take: “Ha! I heard that,” Glazer says. “Well, if his goal … Continue reading →

The similarities between the Mizzou football team and the Chiefs is actually sickening… Up to a point that is, but “Missouri has got more of an overall game,” says everybody’s favorite pigskin purveyor Craig Glazer. “Compared to the Chiefs they’re more talented … Continue reading →

Living on borrowed time… That’s the uncomfortable feeling comedy club main man and football prognosticator Craig Glazer gets every time the Kansas City Chiefs live to tell the story after another squeaker. “Well, they’re 9-0,” Glazer says. “It’s hard to … Continue reading →

Now hear this… At long last, it’s been awhile in the making, but now it’s official; after more than a decade, comedy is returning to midtown Kansas City on November 21st when Stanford’s on Broadway hits the Uptown. “Despite all … Continue reading →

They say the bigger you are, the harder you fall… There are however exceptions to such broad generalities, and until this past Tuesday, Mission Hills multi-millionaire B.B. Andersen would appear to be the poster child for such exceptions. Short of … Continue reading →

There are so few  famous rock bands to truly make it outside of KC… You know, Brewer & Shipley, The Rainmakers and of course, Puddle of Mudd. And no, I haven’t forgotten about David Cook, but at this point, Cook is … Continue reading →