Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.

In another life, Fox 4 meteorologist Mike Thompson might have had any number of careers… Flat Earth Cartologist, Witch Doc, Bloodletter, Turner of Gay People to Straight – you get the picture.  Whatever entailed ignoring science and clinging to antiquated … Continue reading →

Don’t look now, but the Liberty Memorial‘s eternal flame is poised for a comeback… It’s been nearly a year since the once proud flame flickered mightily high atop the downtown landmark. The fake flame went dark last March as part … Continue reading →

Don’t shed any tears for Joe Posnanski… Sure the former Kansas City Star sports scribe took it up the you-know-what last year for giving disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno kid glove treatment in his book “Paterno.” That after … Continue reading →

Do us all a favor and just bring it… Enough with lame headlines like the Pitch‘s speculating on whether now former KCUR FM host Jabulani Leffall was on drugs. He was not the alt weekly “reported,” according to an anonymous … Continue reading →

I can’t take it anymore… Not that I’m mad as hell or anything, but the only thing more ridiculous than the ridiculous tale of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o is the ridiculous, lame news coverage of his fake dead girlfriend … Continue reading →

Think Quantrill’s Raid sans the massacre… At this point the plans are a little sketchy, but if push comes to shove, Black & Gold Tavern owner Zach Cartwright may celebrate the 1863 burning of Lawrence by leading a band of … Continue reading →

Since when did making pizzas become a life and death struggle? I’ll let new Dark Horse Tavern main man Bill Nigro answer that in a minute. But first let’s clear up the confusion about the whereabouts of Torres Pizza the … Continue reading →

Will it ever end? The latest cutbacks – both now and coming soon – to the Kansas City Star: another round of employee furloughs (forced, unpaid vacations) and a shrinking of the newspaper’s print edition sometime between now and the … Continue reading →

Let’s clear up a couple lingering myths… The first being what some sports junkies like to say to let disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong off the hook for cheating. That “everybody” was doing it. Never mind that the head of the … Continue reading →

It’s the most highly reported mystery this week… The dramatic, totally unexpected, on-air resignation Wednesday of  KCUR-FM host Jabulani Leffall was the talk of the town. In the local media anyway. Yet outside of regurgitating Jabulani’s resume, quoting an unnamed … Continue reading →

Anybody a little underwhelmed? A year ago on January 9th Coachella unleashed its lineup for last summer. It’s entire lineup. Included were The Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog. Along with four or seven dozen other acts ranging … Continue reading →

More Oscar foreplay, anyone? Is it me or does it seem like anybody and everybody has been lining up to crow about what they think the best movies of 2012 were? Let’s see, there’s the Critics Choice, Golden Globes, even … Continue reading →

The mystery deepens… A funny thing happened a few hours ago. The music fest known as Kanrocksas announced on its Facebook page that it would put discounted advance tickets back on sale at 8 a.m. this Friday.

Do the math… Ten team members, umpteen pitchers of beer, eight hours. That my friends is the working formula for the upcoming Kansas City-based Crawl for Cancer which for the 13th time goes down on May 13. The question being, … Continue reading →

Know this about the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet downtown… There are better reasons for going there than that they kick people out for talking and texting. Far better reasons. That said, the Alamo likes to remind moviegoers about giving them the, … Continue reading →

Most people haven’t closely followed the unraveling of Lance Armstrong… That’s not a huge sin because it hasn’t exactly been front page news like his winning seven Tour de France titles and dating Missourian Sheryl Crow at the height of … Continue reading →

Don’t look now but the rock-etship known as Kanrocksas is about to attain lift-off… Sources say, Kanrocksas is poised to make a partial lineup announcement next week and put phase two of its discounted two day festival passes on sale. … Continue reading →

First a compliment… I’ve got to hand it to Pitch editor Scott Wilson for cleaning up and breathing content life into the local alternative weekly this past year. But make no mistake, the Kansas City Star may get all the ink … Continue reading →

Inquiring minds want to know… Why did Funny 102.5 FM have to be the one to buy the farm in order to make way for Cumulus’ new local sports signal The Fan? When Cumulus launched its HD2 station on what’s … Continue reading →