Author Archives: Hearne Christopher Jr.

The Evil Empire strikes back! Anybody notice the full page Walmart newspaper ads in the Star and Lawrence Journal World that have been running? The ones in which Walmart  of Kansas City attacks hometown grocer Price Chopper. Wow, I totally … Continue reading →

Tons of travel and molten hot heat have resulted in lots of loose ends… Let’s tie a few of ’em up, shall we? Starting with an item that caught my attention recently in the Pitch.  Basically, the Pitch noticed in … Continue reading →

Let’s start with the premise that human beings, animals and sex are not s good mix… Can we agree on that? Now let’s take a look at one of Hollywood’s most un-hunky actor / heartthrob types, KCK refugee Eric Stonestreet … Continue reading →

LeRoy Neiman and Thomas Kinkade wannabes be gone with thee… The Kansas City Chiefs football team and the Hunt Family have issued a call for artists to inaugurate a new Kansas City Chiefs Art Program. It’s part of Chiefs honcho … Continue reading →

Subject for today; institutions that are going away… I’d already been giving this some thought lately while driving cross-country to Tucson and back from Kansas City. In many ways the trip served as a refresher course on how much things … Continue reading →

  About last month’s All Star Game hype…   While there’s little doubt Kansas City benefited by hosting the event, the extent to which some media and boosters over dramatized and hyped the event was a bit much. The underlying … Continue reading →

Remember that childhood axiom about nice guys finishing last? That’s how most sports media jock sniffers have been treating Joe Posnanski where his upcoming book about disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is concerned. Guilty until proven innocent. No … Continue reading →

Many in the media are hesitant to let anybody know they’re out of town… As if lowlifes or the under class will rise up and burgle them. That’s why the Star always included that cryptic line by my pic when … Continue reading →

Turns out those Alamo Draft House dudes aren’t such tough guys after all… The new signs are up on the former AMC Mainstreet theater downtown’s marquee announcing the switch to Alamo and the Texans have plenty of cool, new things … Continue reading →

At long last Kansas City PR dude Will Gregory is sporting a new set of wheels… The reason: “A deer hit me in broad daylight,” Gregory says. “I was coming home from a kids soccer game in Lee’s Summit.” How … Continue reading →

So many dumb-dumbs, so little time… It’s crazy out here, 104 degree heat, movie rampages, otherwise reasonable people saying completely unreasonable things. Let’s start with Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel who said the following last week about disgraced Penn State … Continue reading →

No two ways about it… If the exit doors out of the now-infamous Cinemark movieplex in Aurora, Colorado had been equipped with audible alarms, there’s a good chance last week’s movie massacre wouldn’t have gone down as it did. If … Continue reading →

Turnabout is fair play… While it’s clear former Kansas City Star columnist Steve Penn‘s lawyer was more than a little sloppy in penning a lawsuit on Penn’s behalf against the newspaper, it’s ironic that in blasting Penn for those errors … Continue reading →

Seems a certain local media blogger dude fell asleep at the wheel this past week…. And missed a pretty big story down 18th and Grand way at the Kansas City Star. Hey, it happens. It was a busy week for … Continue reading →

Tired of CNN anchors endless repetition of the claim that they want to focus on the victims not the shooter? When it’s blatantly obvious they’ll spend the next however many weeks or months doing just the opposite? Unearthing each and … Continue reading →

There was more than enough sadness and despair stemming from yesterday’s  tragic shootings in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater… But maybe – just maybe – there were a few less obvious lessons to be learned too. Subtler things than doing … Continue reading →