Author Archives: Paul Wilson

Think of it as a blow to hippies everywhere… It’s with great sadness that I  must tell you  that the  Volkswagen Kombi a.k.a. the VW Bus is alas no more. After producing more than 1.5 million units between September 1957 to September … Continue reading →

I’m gonna to deliver the punch line, the money quote, right up front… Why? Because in an effort to save time for Harley so he can get right to his negative spin and not have to read the whole story, … Continue reading →

Talk about paradoxes… On April 4, 1968 civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated at the age of 39 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, as his horrified mistress remained inside his room. Since that day the … Continue reading →

This week marked a watershed moment in the world of pay TV providers… For the first time in history they have suffered a loss of 105,000 customers. U.S. cable providers make up 94% of the market, and while they have lost … Continue reading →

Time wounds all heels… Fred Phelps, the 84-year old “preacher” of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist “church” – if I may use those two terms – is about to meet his maker. Phelps hate filled little cult was established in 1955 and became a household name … Continue reading →

The Lindsay Lohan Laid List The train wreck we love to hate; the girl who should have been a Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan is back in the news with a list of dudes she’s slept with. Somehow the list came into … Continue reading →

Talk about blowing smoke signals… SoftBank main man Masayoshi Son – the company that now owns Sprint – spoke to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday in what most assuredly was meant to garner propaganda headlines aimed at the FCC. Not that … Continue reading →

I first discovered Diane Birch in Episode 24 of Live from Daryl’s House… If you’re not a fan of the show and love live music, it’s a great mix. Daryl Hall, of Hall and Oates fame, invites new and old artists … Continue reading →

I admit it, I have a thing for Sandra Bullock… It’s not that I think she’s the most attractive woman on earth. I mean, she’s okay. But I have friends who know her from the Austin music scene and I … Continue reading →

The No. 1 man in law enforcement says it’s OK to not enforce laws banning same-sex marriage if the laws discriminate in a way forbidden by the Constitution… Speaking to the National Association of Attorneys General, Attorney General Eric Holder said … Continue reading →

I know what FYI writer Tim Engle wrote about deejay Randy Miller in the Star… About the two guys who own a couple small time radio stations in and around Warrensburg who were willing to let Randy do whatever he … Continue reading →

Yep, you heard it here first on KC Confidential… I went against the current, swam upstream and correctly predicted the Sprint-Softbank merger before anyone. Dish had been the heavy media favorite. For several days, if you Googled the proposed merger, … Continue reading →

Picture your well-coiffed Scribe  perched in Parterre Box 6 at the Kauffman… Just as our former President – Male Whore in Chief, Bill Clinton – was taking the podium at the Women’s Day Red Dress awards at the Lincoln Center in New … Continue reading →

What a way to go… Just about the last thing I’d do on a typical Tuesday evening is sit through two hours of Broadway musical cheerleading routines. Then again, it was a date night with my high school daughter and … Continue reading →

It’s been a slo week… Snow’s kept the Darwinians inside, but for your consideration, I offer the following  from the all the news that’s not. 2014 #SochiProblems If you want some great reading, add #SochiProblems to your Twitter feed; apparently Russia … Continue reading →

High School cheerleaders, anyone? Starting Tuesday, resident KC Confidential contributor dude and the Theater League main man Mark Edelman is presenting Bring It On: The Musical at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. And believe it or not, your well-coiffed … Continue reading →

Grandma VaLue stockpiled aluminum tins… If it came from the store in aluminum tins, it was washed, saved and packed away. She had a pantry dedicated to every type, size and style you could imagine. Whenever I asked her why she … Continue reading →

The Sasha Menu Courey saga was a story worth telling… And my intent was to boil hundreds of pages of information and documents I’d gathered over weeks and present them with the facts, in a chronological order. Let me preface my … Continue reading →

Philip Seymour Hoffman was late Sunday to pick up the three kids he had by his longtime girlfriend… Hoffman never showed because he was found dead by two friends later that day in his Greenwich Village apartment, a heroin needle … Continue reading →

We all know how this story ends… But let’s look at the timeline to see how we all got here. Starting in February 2010 when highly-recruited University of Missouri swimmer Sasha Menu Courey was allegedly raped. In August 2010 – … Continue reading →