Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.

Think of it as a textbook case of one man’s trash being another man’s treasure… Virtually the entire Kansas City sports media hasn’t stopped kissing Chiefs owner Clark Hunt‘s butt since he hired newly fired Philly coach Andy Reid last … Continue reading →

About new sports talk station The Fan… For starters it’s Kansas City’s only FM sports talk station at 102.5 FM. That’s actually huge, given that far fewer listeners today make their way to the AM dial where entrenched sports talkers … Continue reading →

Another Valentine’s Day, more brickbats and bouquets for local chocolatiers… Almost like clockwork it’s become the norm for Consumer Reports to roll out its tasting results of boxed chocolate candy in time for the Day of Love. Which as far back … Continue reading →

The moment of truth is at hand… Sources say that the powers that be at Sporting Kansas City appear poised to end the soccer club’s affiliation with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong‘s charity Livestrong. At this point in time, a final … Continue reading →

Welcome to the Bigs… Where there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Where tabloid “eyes” and cellphone cams lurk around every corner, in every honky-tonk and titty bar. For months affable Belton street worker Tate Stevens has been living a … Continue reading →

What’s with all the press releases? It’s time for Chiefs “owner” Clark Hunt to dispense with all the carefully-worded, written statements, come out of hiding and communicate openly with Chiefs fans face-to-face. That’s how his father, Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt … Continue reading →

About that new FM sports-talk signal… 102.5 The Fan is the name of the Cumulus Radio’s new game and it replaces the popular two year-old comedy station Funny 102.5 FM The signal is what’s called a “translator” or low power … Continue reading →

Wham, bam! Just like that ticket sales for this year’s Wakarusa Festival – the 10th – exploded with the partial announcement earlier this week of the lineup. Widespread Panic, Of Monsters and Men and Yonder Mountain String Band, to name … Continue reading →

Finally got the bat off my shoulder and caught Les Miserables at my new favorite movieplex, the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet… For starters, I screwed up. An editing snafu forced me to re-write from scratch my scoop on the Beaumont Club … Continue reading →

Who killed Cock Robin? The jury’s still out on that one, but the doing in of Westport’s Beaumont Club is a far easier crime to solve. Let’s solve it right here, right now, shall we?

Hard to imagine but it’s been 20 years since the Beaumont Club in Westport first reared its head… Now, 20 years after the fact and hundreds of concerts and sporting events later, the Beaumont is no more. The club closed … Continue reading →

What was it the Scribe said the other day? That nobody does New Year’s Eve anymore. Au contraire. True, the vaunted Hyatt Regency bash downtown is history and people no longer have to go to one exact place or area … Continue reading →

Think of it as the sorcerer’s companion… The new Prospero’s Uptown Books at 3600 Broadway isn’t just another bookstore. After all, bookstores as we knew them are a dying breed. One of the many victims of technology and the Internet … Continue reading →

Does anybody today even remember who sang the song? You know, “White Christmas.” Or does it even matter anymore unless you’re well over the age of 40? Probably not. What does seem to matter is that pretty much anybody and … Continue reading →

Retailers, restaurateurs and nightclub owners love it… Bring on the fair weather and the fair weather customers, they say. For many the warm winter climes are a welcome respite from the gloomy, cold temps we’re used to at this time … Continue reading →

“I finally sold it,” says The News Room owner Kevin McGraw… And just like that one of Midtown’s most venerable watering holes faded into the history books a week ago today. “I was told Ernest Hemingway used to go there,” … Continue reading →

This just in from Ground Zero at 18th and Grand… Kansas City Star publisher Mi-Ai Parrish‘s” memo to co-workers re widespread reports and commentary on the controversial decision to make two reporters – Karen Dillon and Dawn Bormann – duke … Continue reading →

As to be expected, the preholiday forecast is dour to partly gloomy… The morale at the Kansas City Star in the wake of Monday’s layoffs debacle: “Morale? If the staff had any morale, it’d probably be lower, I’m sure,” says … Continue reading →

It’s hard to hide out when you’re a journalist and the entire media world’s watching? So it is that Kansas City Star publisher Mi-Ai Parrish came out from underneath her desk last night long enough to kinda-sorta set the record … Continue reading →

Seems the word of her death was greatly exaggerated… Sources at the Kansas City Star say reporter Dawn Bormann may not be well, but she’s still alive. That in the wake of news that the newspaper has asked Bormann and … Continue reading →