Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
‘Modern Family’s’ Stonestreet Talks BBQ, KU Blue, Crazy Crowd Counts & Mayor’s X-mas Tree
Which is tougher, being a straight dude playing a gay guy one or a law abiding citizen offing folks?
Believe it or not, that’s one of the many quandaries that come with the budding Hollywood success Continue reading
Star Struck: Ted McKnight and the Rapid Rise & Fall of K-State Football
What a difference a week makes…
Sunday before last, a Continue reading
Tres Wicked: Ex KC Actor Weighs in on the Popular Musical
Not only does former Kansas City actor Continue reading
The Day the Earth Stood Still for Mark Edelman: A.L. Huber Goes Futuristic
Area 51 it Continue reading
Stop the Presses: Hearne stopped for D.U.I. in Prairie Village
This just in….
Traveling from the Plaza Monday night/Tuesday morning, I was pulled over by Prairie Village Police for allegedly rolling a stop sign Continue reading
Kansas City Councilman Calls Out AEG for Violating Contract With City
About the Zac Brown concert that christened the new Independence Events Center last week…
Never should have happened, says KC Councilman John Sharp. Not at a competing venue, in a competing city, anyway. That’s because concert promoter AEG made a deal with Kansas City in the Wayne Cauthen/Kay Barnes era to book both the new Sprint Center and Kemper and to not directly compete against those venues.
“I just got through a meeting with AEG last week in which they talked about their noncompete clause that extended from the Sprint Center 250 miles in any direction,” Sharp says. “AEG is not supposed to be involved in booking competitive events within 250 miles of the Sprint Center.” Continue reading
Maytag Man Takes on Hemingway, Hollywood: Investor Wanted
From Maytag to Hemingway Continue reading
KU Athletic Director That Hired Mark Mangino Issues Call for Calm
Just win, baby…
It hardly strikes former Continue reading
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Kansas City refugees Continue reading
Will Mangino Make Flight to Austin? Source Says, No
This this in from a source close to significant supporters of KU athletics, specifically its football program… Embattled KU head football coach Mark Mangino may not make the trip to Austin for this weekend’s game against Texas. “I’ve been told … Continue reading
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Once upon a time there was a basement blues club in Westport called Blayney Continue reading
Hold the Phat Jokes: Will KU Coach Mark Mangino’s Choke Hold Seal His Doom?
There may be a snowball’s chance in Hades that KU football coach Mark Mangino will return next year…
But if there is, Joe-College.com owner Larry Sinks and local sports-a-holic Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons comedy club don’t see it. Not even close, the two agree.
“Looks like he’s gone, oh yeah,” Sinks says. “He choked a player last week in practice – some linebacker named Arist Wright – that’s what I was told. I got it from a pretty reliable source and I’m pretty confident in my source.”
When Sinks isn’t coming up with kickass T-shirts like “Our Coach is Phat” and “Muck Fizzou” or defending himself against seven-figure lawsuits by KU athletics honcho Lew Perkins, he keeps a close ear to the ground in Lawrence on all things KU.
“Oh yeah, the KU football players come in all the time and the player’s parents come in all the time,” Sinks says. “All I know is that I was talking to some of the players and they were telling me they just don’t get along with Mangino – that he is a hot head and a lot of the players don’t like him anymore. And they have just had enough of his views.”
Glazer has another take on Mangino’s likely demise… Continue reading
Surviving Arts Incubator 2009 Chili Bash
Last time you tore into 29 bowls of chili in a single setting?
Twenty-nine uniquely Continue reading
Cage the Elephant Unleashes Wilding at Beaumont; Star M.I.A.
I have seen the future of rock n roll and it is frentetic…
Cage the Elephant at the Beaumont Club Saturday delivered far and away the most frenzied, far-fetched, fantasical, punked-out performance I’ve witnessed. A straight down the line, kickass show – no gimmicks, no glitter cannons – just the band with frontman Mathew Shultz on the verge of the most engaging on-stage meltdown imaginable.
At concert’s end Shulz lay collapsed on the Beaumont dance floor, the crowd of 400 or so gathered about him, leaving security personnel with little choice but to lift his limp form and transport it backstage. Or to a hospital maybe.
Make no mistake, Shultz delivered the goods. It was an incredible performance. Continue reading
Hearne: Is the Star Trying Too Hard?
Look, I get it…
I write something critical about The Kansas City Star and somebody pops up in comments with the time-tested axiom that I’m harboring a grudge after getting caught up last year in one of the newspaper’s many layoffs.
Hey, that’s legit…
Who doesn’t play that sort of second-guessing game? In sports, at work, in business, in one’s personal life. We all do it.
Know what? It ain’t me, babe.
I’ve been keeping a critical eye on the Star long before we parted company. Amicably, I might add. Back when I was a stock and commodities broker; when I ran the Pitch – heck – all during the time I worked at the paper when it was appropriate. Anyone who’s been keeping anything approaching an eye on me over the years can vouch for that. Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: person L in concert tonight at the Record Bar
Gone are the catchy power pop musical chops of boy band The Starting Line… In its place stands
This Just in: Nathan Granner to Perform Holiday Show at Jardine’s
Celebrated American Tenor Nathan Granner – who just happens to be a Kansas City dude – will perform a pair of intimate holiday shows at Jardine’s restaurant and jazz club on the Plaza on December 21st.
“I am so honored to play there, it’s such a cool thing,” Granner says. “We’re going to do some Christmas and holiday tunes first of all – just me with a piano and bass. Then we’re going to open it up with some Frank Sinatra standards. And then we’re going to do some jazz – but not like Autumn Leaves – familiar songs but not overdone ones. I just want people to come out and enjoy themselves.”
Granner’s setlist will include Music of the Night, Continue reading
Hookah Bar Poised to Descend on Waldo at Western Chandelier
The pop culture renaissance going down in formerly sleepy suburb Waldo is about to get a whole lot friskier...
Not that long ago hood was known for little more than its catfish, drug stores and tiny watering holes frequented by the likes of deceased Mo. State Senator Harry Wiggins. That was before the likes of 75th Street Brewery, Continue reading
Death of a Salesman: Mansion Maven Marsha Goldman Passes
The recent passing of residential real estate heavy hitter Continue reading
