Author Archives: Paul Wilson

Over the weekend I came across the video Tour of Kansas City and immediately shared it with friends and posted it on my Facebook page… It was the single most creative thing I’d come across in some time, especially when … Continue reading →

Geraldo Takes a Selfie In a picture that I can’t unsee, Geraldo Rivera took the Craig Glazer “Battle of the Best Bods” contest a step too far. In the early hours of Sunday morning, equipped with nothing more than a … Continue reading →

The Radio Romance Tour 2013 and its cast of colorful characters rolled into Starlight Friday… Yet as much as I’d looked forward to this event, Friday was one of those ultra difficult days where nothing seemed to fall in place … Continue reading →

We take all kinds of pills that give us all kind of thrills But the thrill we’ve never known Is the thrill that’ll getcha when you get your picture On the cover of the Rollin’ Stone That was Dr. Hook’s … Continue reading →

I know, as Hearne likes to lecture me, it’s the white man’s double standard… But on Tuesday, HLN’s marginal talk show host Nancy Grace lit into George Zimmerman and is now being accused of racism herself. Frankly, I could come … Continue reading →

“Well, it’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out on the edge of the prairie…” And with those words, I know it’s the weekend. Most of my Saturdays are set aside for the creation of art furniture … Continue reading →

Ian Anderson‘s performance of Thick as a Brick Saturday was a masterful one… Not since Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention have I seen anything comparable to this two and one half hour long production of orchestrated perfection and musical tightness … Continue reading →

Theeeey want to rock and roll and all night, and party ev-er-y day… Don’t look now but the band KISS is poised to bestow its Rock & Brews upon lowly Overland Park in Prairiefire at 135th and Metcalf. More to the point, bandmates … Continue reading →

“Really don’t mind if you sit this one out,” is the opening line of the 1972 Jethro Tull album “Thick as a Brick.” I could only describe TAAB as a single song opus, inside a rock musical and wrapped up … Continue reading →

Round one… Attention Royals & Chiefs Officials – No More Bad Calls Police in rural Brazil detained one man and were seeking two others in the slaying of a soccer referee who was killed by spectators after he stabbed a … Continue reading →

Last week I traded emails with KC Mayor Sly James as he and I are in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss the murder rate in KC for an upcoming story on KC Confidential… That’s the main … Continue reading →

Here we go again… Murder @ The OK Biker Corral 1917 Prospect was the scene of multiple shootings in the wee hours of Sunday morning as the “private club” hosted a party to celebrate a rappers release from jail. The … Continue reading →

I know, I know – it’s only Tuesday but there’s Just too much going on… Paula Deen, Racist Baroness of Butter Deen and her brother “Bubba” are being sued for 1.2 million carbs in a racial and sexual hot mess … Continue reading →

Jovan Belcher Baby Daddy Custody Determined Two fine families stepped forward in an attempt to claim the byproduct of Chiefs loser Jovan Belcher and his blasted to hell girlfriend Kasandra Perkins life of love. In defending who was best to … Continue reading →

Sitting at home two hours before the Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Crossroads, I wondered if this 11 course musical feast would even take place… Dark skies and rain. Still I put my faith in weather God, Bryan Busby and, … Continue reading →

I called this one a month ago… Last weekend, while headed to the West Bottoms for First Friday, I was standing in line waiting for coffee behind a dude wearing one of those lame TAP-OUT t-shirts. It struck me funny … Continue reading →

Deck the Halls… Halls Plaza will close next summer and consolidate into a larger, remodeled Halls Crown Center some 20 blocks away. The downside; this is the last anchor tenant and old guard, local store left on the Plaza. On … Continue reading →

Every now and then, we need stories that help to restore our battered faith in modern man… While we hear about tornadoes in Oklahoma – a tragedy of enormous magnitude – a smaller but equally devastating disaster is taking place … Continue reading →

Stop the presses… Forget everything I said about loopholes, homeboy Eric Kaplan just closed them on himself. Arrested tonight just before 9;00 pm, he sits in the Johnson County Detention Center charged with stalking a second victim. And this time … Continue reading →

Go Home People, Nothing to See Here… Criminal laws are written pretty tight for a reason. Usually, for the protection of law abiding citizens.  That said, sometimes there are loop holes. In this case, alleged Overland park stalker Eric Kaplan … Continue reading →