Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.

They’re dropping like flies at 18th and Grand… Three today. However this time out, the body count at the Kansas City Star is exiting on a voluntary basis. Long missing TV critic Aaron Barnhart bit the dust (officially) earlier today. … Continue reading →

This just in… After more than eight months on the missing in action list Kansas City Star television critic Aaron Barnhart has resigned his post at the newspaper. In a letter to the staff Star editor Mike Fannin put things … Continue reading →

Talk about boo at the zoo… When it comes to potential taxpayer ripoffs, the sky’s the limit in Kansas City – at least at the zoo. Or so it would seem based on an example cited by former Kansas City … Continue reading →

To be or not to be, that is the question… Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous verbiage. Or to take journalistic arms against a sea of profanities, and by opposing end them: … Continue reading →

There’ve been damn few free agent radio deals go down since the era of people-metered ratings dawned a few years back… For the most part music radio deejays are lucky to hang on to their paychecks period. Shut up and … Continue reading →

Informant, snitch, tattletale, rat… Take your pick, KU ticket ripoff artist and party boy Rodney Jones – the mastermind behind the scandal that sent Kansas athletics director Lew Perkins packing – is now attempting to parlay his role in the … Continue reading →

At the very least, it won’t be easy… It’s almost implausible, but somehow, someway, beleaguered cyclist Lance Armstrong needs to fall on his sword and divorce himself from the organization that bears his name, The Lance Armstrong Foundation.

It’s been over a year since departing sports scribe Greg Hall made fun of my Fiat… Imagine. And what was that one dude’s name – Rogger – who wanted to bed my girlfriend on a losing bet he made about … Continue reading →

Hard as it is imagine, I had an epiphany while watching Expendables 2… It came to me at the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet downtown during the theater’s Van Dammage promotion. The Alamo gang wheeled out four cheesy Jean-Claude Van Damme action … Continue reading →

Remember the Nine Great American Companies that will never recover a few weeks back? Well, Best Buy is way too nouveau to qualify as a “great American company,” but it’s big enough and bad enough off to join Sprint, JC … Continue reading →

A funny thing happened the other day on the way to the office… I was talking with my real estate agent about what kind of car he was going to buy after he unloads a $2.5 million-plus mansion in Fall … Continue reading →

Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight… This journalistic contest was over before it started. In an attempt to breath relevance into the review of a book certain to be covered by the biggest guns in journalism, the Kansas … Continue reading →

For three days when I’ve looked out my bedroom window I’ve gazed upon the Crown Center complex… Which, as you  might surmise, is because I’m staying at the Westin Crown Center Hotel. It’s been a while since I’ve spent this … Continue reading →

For the second time in less than five years Entercom has axed veteran radio personality Tanna Guthrie… The longtime KY102 and 99.7 KY personality has parted company with The Point 99.7 FM – reportedly on “good terms” – after a … Continue reading →

By now, everyone who cares  knows Alamo Drafthouse will suffer no fools at its new Mainstreet movieplex… Not the sort who talk or text during movies anyway. That said, there’s practically no limit to the foolishness Alamo will eagerly participate … Continue reading →

Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front… Fox 4 movie critic Shawn Edwards has nothing against babies – he even had one…once. “I do love babies,” Edwards says. “Just not at the movies.” However, were Edwards … Continue reading →

Make way for Big Brother… A spate of high profile killings by nut jobs – the Dark Knight massacre in Colorado, the Sikh Temple shootings in Wisconsin – have the country on edge. So much so that a team at … Continue reading →

Talk about 100 minutes of hell… You cannot go to a movie these days without sitting through a primer on cellphone etiquette. You know, about how texting is wrong – terribly wrong. Here’s what you can do though: And that’s … Continue reading →

This time last year owners of the urban dance club America’s Pub were up in arms… They felt the club was about to get kicked out of its longtime home in Westport’s Manor Square because many in the neighborhood blamed … Continue reading →

In yet another nod to the Pitch, it was called to my attention that editor Scott Wilson was taking major heat for eviscerating my pal, Star features columnist Jeneé Osterheldt. The expectation being, I guess, that I’d hop on the … Continue reading →