Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.
Hearne: Guess what? I’m Leaving KC
Sorry about the past few weeks… I’ve got a number of pretty interesting columns brewing, but – just so you’ll know – I got married in late June, sold my house in Dear Old Brookside a few weeks back, and … Continue reading
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Hearne: Back to the Movies w/ ‘TENET’ + Star Editor Mike Fannin
Let’s see, do I embarrass myself or… Oh, what the heck. After all, slime ball Kansas City Star editor Mike Fannin didn’t mind laying down a phony “tear jerker” about how his mom came to visit and the whole family … Continue reading
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Hearne: High Rollers Wanted; Pitch Begs Readers for Big Bucks
Nothing really new here… The Pitch has been mooching money from readers for years. However, the former alt weekly – now a monthly freebie under new owners – is upping the ante. Like never before. It’s one thing to sit … Continue reading
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Hearne: AMC Scrambles To Survive Monumental Losses
Two billion here, five-hundred million there – it adds up… The financial toll the coronavirus is taking on Kansas City’s AMC Theatres is staggering, but the company may be beginning to see some light at a seemingly never-ending, gloomy tunnel … Continue reading
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Hearne: Jason Whitlock To The Rescue
This is what Kansas Citians used to love (or hate) about Jason Whitlock… Aside from pimping local sports fans in the pages of the Kansas City Star, Whitlock regularly delivered the pro white guy goods to the newspaper’s mostly non-black readership. … Continue reading
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Hearne: Kevin Kietzman On Chiefs & Other Controversies
Long time, no sports talk from former WHB powerhouse Kevin Kietzman… Ah, but come September Kietzman will rise like a sports phoenix via a midday daily podcast covering not just sports but politics and life itself. In the meantime, inquiring … Continue reading
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Hearne: Will AMC Theatres Survive?
Word that AMC Theatres delayed its reopening sent shudders through the industry… “The entire movie industry is shook up right now,” says KCC movie man Jack Poessiger. “The dominoes have fallen, let me put it that way.” That after both Disney’s Mulan … Continue reading
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Hearne: Remember The Good Old Days When KC Had Iceland Air Service to Europe?
Seems like only yesterday when you could hop on a cheap thrill Iceland Air flight and head for Europe… Remember? On top oof which you could take an extended layoff and party in Iceland penalty free. Those were the days. … Continue reading
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Hearne: Movie Critic Jack Poessiger Contemplates ‘Retirement’
He speaks fluent German and has been a movie critic here since the earth cooled… I’m talking about Jack Poessiger, of course, the author of Jack Goes Confidential and New Jack City here on KCC. So has Man Jack unleashed … Continue reading
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Hearne: Sports Talker Kevin Kietzman Poised for Comeback
This just in… Kansas City’s prominent sports personality the past 20-plus years – Kevin Kietzman – has settled his issues with Sports Radio WHB – the station he all but singlehandedly put on the map – and will announce his return … Continue reading
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Hearne: Anatomy Of An Embattled Kansas City Police Chief
Hard to argue that we’re living in an Alice in Wonderland, through-the-looking glass world… That following the death of George Floyd, the country has climbed through a mirror where – like a reflection – everything is reversed…including logic. Sound familiar? No? You must not … Continue reading
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Hearne: July Movie Theater Openings in Doubt
Things are looking pretty shaky again in the movie biz… How shaky? “I still don’t think the movie theaters are going to open up at the end of this month as planned the way the virus is going now,” says … Continue reading
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Hearne: Star Subscribers ‘Horrified’ By Bogus Police Chief ‘Hit Piece’
How much longer will the powers that be at what’s left of the once vaunted Kansas City Star put up with lame, over-the-top editorials and biased reporting? If that sounds like a mouthful, trust me it is. The once-thoughtful, local news … Continue reading
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Hearne: Kansas City Star Braces for New Owner Tribulations
Hard to imagine things getting much worse at the Kansas City Star… Then again, between coronavirus, bankruptcy, declining readership and revenue, an over-the-hill readership, and finally, a new hedge fund owner almost certain to lay waste to what’s left of … Continue reading
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Hearne: Is Lawrence Journal World On Its Last Legs?
The jury’s out… Can so-called newspapers survive on internet advertising alone? That’s question is looming larger by the day, especially as organizations like the Lawrence Journal World and Kansas City Star approach the point of no return as paid print … Continue reading
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Hearne: Ex Journal World Sports Editor Takes Bullet in Boston
It’s not easy being a print journalist…. Not these days and not that anybody much is grieving for them, given the quality of what passes for reporting in the current idiom. So it comes as little surprise that not two … Continue reading
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Hearne: ‘Notorious Madame Red’ On Canceling 2020 Ren Fest
Skin tight corsets and bodices aside, it ain’t easy being a sexy wench these days… Take Denise Groason – aka Renaissance Festival’s Notorious Madame Red – who is sitting out this year’s, whether it goes down or not. “If the … Continue reading
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Hearne: Renaissance Festival Playing ‘Chicken’ Selling Advance Tix For Uncertain Fest
To be or not to be… That is the question in regard to this year’s 2020 Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs. With everyone from the Kansas City Chiefs on down wrestling with if and how their seasons might go down in light … Continue reading
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Hearne: Speaking of Sports…KU, T-Bones Make ‘Fake News’
A pair of riveting announcements, certain to thrill sports-mined types… First, the Kansas City T-Bones “baseball team” will not be playing the 2020 season. Shocker. Frankly, it would have been a bigger surprise if they announced they would play. Indeed, … Continue reading
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Hearne: Murphy’s (Leftridge’s) Law Interrupts Honeymoon, Takes Down Site
Can’t a guy get married, leave town for a bit on a honeymoon without the site getting taken down? Ridiculous as that may sound – not the getting married and going on a honeymoon part – but out of the … Continue reading
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