Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.

  They say what comes around goes around… In the case of Tuesday’s breaking news by KC Confidential about the Kansas City Star pitting two reporters – Karen Dillon and Dawn Bormann – against one another to see which gets … Continue reading →

This is the original story, but there’s so much more: The journalism world notices 18th and Grand, but not for beef Experts give thumbs down to Hunger Games scheme Star Morale at all-time low The publisher responds How cold can … Continue reading →

This just in from sources at the Kansas City Star… Another casualty of Monday’s layoffs and cutbacks at 18th and Grand: Would you believe the newspaper’s Kansas City Store? “I just heard both Star stores are closing,” says one newspaper … Continue reading →

Geez, is nothing sacred anymore? A scant two weeks before Christmas and the Grim Reapers at 18th and Grand are up to their old tricks. As in laying off staff right before America’s Holiday. “MEMO TO: Co-workers,” the internal notice … Continue reading →

For the better part of a decade it was his dream home… I’m talking about former Kansas City Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock‘s bachelor pad in South Overland Park. The four bedroom, three and a half bath Nottingham Forest abode … Continue reading →

Far be it from me to concede that music and soccer scribe Matt Donnelly painted me into a corner… Then again, he did call me out in last week’s “Sounds Good” column. Were we going to our annual KC Confidential … Continue reading →

About that Fleetwood Mac show at Sprint April 30th… Does the world really need another helping of dated 1970s arena pop rock? I caught Fleetwood Mac in concert at the then new Qwest Center in Omaha in the early-mid 2000s. … Continue reading →

Just when it was looking like former Star sports scribe Jason Whitlock had become a forgotten man… Up pops the devil in the form of no-name Kansas City Chiefs player turned murderer, Jovan Belcher. Belcher’s dastardly deed was the perfect … Continue reading →

Face it, everybody loves a good murder-suicide story… That much is obvious on the heels of little known  Chiefs player J0van Belcher‘s dramatic departure from this earth this past Saturday. I already bagged on the Star, which couldn’t wait long … Continue reading →

It’s so predictable, so formulaic… “A City United in Sorrow,” reads the headline atop today’s Kansas City Star. “Community Mourns – Kasandra Perkins and Jovan Belcher remembered.” WTF? Two people 99 percent of Kansas City never heard of before check … Continue reading →

Game on… For nearly a year now the powers that be at the elegant and esteemed American Restaurant in Crown Center have been plotting and planning. Tinkering even. Their mission: to young down the crowd at the upscale eatery which … Continue reading →

Don’t look now, but the party poopers at City Hall in Kansas City are turning over a new leaf… Sources say the Kansas City Council appears poised to relax the city’s density requirements which in Westport would allow the party … Continue reading →

It’s all over but the but the the crying… One year ago vaunted Plaza area jazz club Jardine’s hit the skids. That after a Thanksgiving holiday week from hell that spun out of control leaving former owner Beena Brandsgard trapped … Continue reading →

Anybody can direct you guys to sure fire, blockbuster, can’t miss events… Shows like next month’s Carrie Underwood at Sprint or Chris Isaak at the Uptown. Chances are you’re already planning to go if you’re into those artists and have … Continue reading →

Better late than never, right? Look, I totally get that the moviegoers of America pronounced me dead wrong when I told you last summer “Ted” was a snooze. Maybe I was having an off day. I’m going to try it … Continue reading →

They said it couldn’t be done… No way could tiny Austin, Texas exhibitor the Alamo Drafthouse take out all the front rows, add service aisles between every row of seats in the three downstairs auditoriums of the former AMC Mainstreet … Continue reading →

“The drought has continued through fall and there is no true end in sight right now,” says KSHB TV weather wonk Gary Lezak. “The weather pattern sets up according to my ‘Lezak’s Recurring Cycle,’ or LRC. “This weather pattern is … Continue reading →

Here we go again… It’s that time of year, Thanksgiving. And you know what that means. The Plaza Lighting Ceremony – broadcast live this year on KSHB TV – will bring hundreds of thousands of people to the Country Club … Continue reading →

Think of it as a house divided… In one corner we have KC Confidential movie maven Jack Poessiger. In the other, Fox 4 movie guy Shawn Edwards. And smack in the middle, director Steven Spielberg‘s new movie Lincoln. To Jack’s … Continue reading →

Looking for a last minute head rush before Thanksgiving hits? You’ve come to the right place. Let’s mix it up a bit with some one night stand movie action. To Kill a Mockingbird be specific. Don’t rub your eyes, I … Continue reading →