Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Save Standard: New Campaign Not Sign of Pending Apocalypse
Make no mistake, losing Standard Style Boutique would be a lowdown, dirty shame…
Without a doubt some of Kansas City’s fashion forward finest would rather drink muddy water and sleep in hollow logs before they’d saddle up for an evening on the town in duds from Gap Continue reading
Parental Advisory: Do Not Take ‘rents to Yes if You’re Under 30
True confession: I only watched like four Yes songs at the Uptown tonight…
By my count that was three too many.
But don’t mind me, the crowd may have been long in the tooth, but it was by all means very receptive. So what does it really matter that my answer to Yes was no?
This isn’t a review of the show so much as an abstract observational overview of the scene. Hipsters of a certain stripe – like KC Confidential arts writers Continue reading
Wakarusa Fest Looks Backward & Forward to Life After Lawrence
Ah, the good old days…
When the Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival reared its newborn head in 2004 nobody suspected first year participants would be eaten alive by insects or that third year attendees would find themselves mired in something resembling a police state with experimental spy gear and busts galore.
But the mighty Wakarusa – much like its namesake – soldiered on and after five years in Lawrence with 80 percent of its participants coming from outside the area – made a bold move to Arkansas last month for Wakarusa 6.
Off the local radar, not much was said by the usual local media suspects…until now.
So how did things go? Continue reading
12 O’Clock Jump Gets Its Jones on with Eerie Hyatt Skywalk Connection
Everything old is new again thanks to Mark Edelman’s radio show 12 O’Clock Jump on KCUR FM…
The Theater League honcho may have gotten flimflammed out of doing Broadway shows at the Music Hall, but he’s keeping his hat in the ring with a new one-hour variety show at the Mutual Musicians Foundation downtown that trips off at midnight each and every Saturday night.
“The third one is this Saturday,” Edelman says. “Stan Kessler is playing and we’ll have some fun stories to tell about our featured artist Carmell Jones, a great Continue reading
The Sunday Want Ads: KC Confidential Looking for a Few Good Folks
Interested in hooking up with the fastest growing team of area news gatherer/hunters in show biz? KC Confidential is looking for reporters, writers, artists, photographers, computer design specialists and sales and marketing types. Specifically, we need people to conduct dining, … Continue reading
Will KC Law Reach Out and Touch Br
Rumors regarding the Sacha Baron Cohen movie wilding at the Hotel Phillips downtown are rampant…
Take the one that Lathrop & Gage attorney Bernie Rhodes has been retained by the movie Continue reading
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Think of it as a case of “historic European luxury” colliding with hysterical European tomfoolery…
When fictional gay Austrian fashion reporter Br Continue reading
Break Out the Sheetcake: Mike Hendricks’ Job Hunt Take Deux
Seems like only yesterday that KC Star columnist Mike Hendricks was wincing in public pain over his one third pay cut plus benefits loss at the daily paper…
Trust me, it could have been worse.
As evidenced by my 18th and Grand excommunication – although there is life after newsprint, I can now report.
For the record – only as a reminder – Hendricks lost it.
Teply: Michael Jackson as Veggie? Read it, Weep
Kansas City cartoonist Joan Teply’s off-kilter take on yesterday’s Michael Jackson services:
Kansas City’s Top Jazz Club Jardine’s Goes Heavy Metal
You got it, you change it, you still got it…
Remember the time Continue reading
Hearne: September 11, 2009; All Aboard, Nobody Bored
Night and day changes are fast approaching Kansas City’s party landscape. No need to be afraid though, it’s all good. And plenty. The countdown is on.
All Aboard! Kansas City BBQ Tour Launches Saturday
Only five more shopping days before liftoff…
That’s when Amanda Fredrickson’s Kansas City BBQ getaway ushers forth. One night, eight joints – I’d say no waiting but it’s a five hour blowout – plus a healthy mix of jazz, blues, Boulevard Beer and more.
The name of Fredrickson’s game: Gourmet Nomads.
“It’s luxury culinary travel,” she explains. “We go to unique, boutique dining destinations in the United States. I would rather take people to Portland, Charlston, Santa Fe, Philly – Kansas City, of course – as opposed to Chicago, Dallas or New York because those cities are already being done. People already know they have fantastic dining scenes.”
Fredrickson wants to turn diners on to unexpected, overlooked places “that can rival what’s going on in the larger cities,” she says. “The really die hard foodies know about these other cities, but the general population doesn’t. But these places have just as much or more to offer.”
Which brings us to her BBQ tour of KC July 11th… Continue reading
Name That Tune for KCTV Coffee Cups: Sex Offenders or Secret Words?
As pet peeves go, I’ve seen stranger….
That said, Jack Goes Confidential movie critic Jack Poessiger’s Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Royals Blow Past Chiefs in ESPN ‘Ultimate Standings’
Rub your eyes all that you want, the above headline is not going away…
Ridiculous though it may seem – certainly at first blush – somehow, someway the beleaguered Kansas City Royals baseball franchise managed to majorly top the wildly popular Continue reading
WWI Museum Honcho Parties With Neko Case on Turner Classic Movies
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A Tale of Two Halter Tops: Photog Flashes Back to Racier Days
Just how watered down were the Royals halter tops given out today? 
Extremely, says former New Times photographer Dale Monaghen. He should know, as a working photojournalist Monaghen covered the very first Halter Top Day in the 1970s. And he’s got the photos to prove it.
“It’s kind of matronly looking,” Monaghen says of today’s tops at The Kougar. “Let’s just say, it’s not very revealing compared to the ones in my photos. The new one looks like a T-shirt without sleeves. It does have a V neck but it goes up in the armpit area a lot higher.”
Therein lies the problem.
The original Royals halter tops may have been cleavage-free, but the open backs encouraged bra-less-ness and midriffs were exposed. More to the R-rated point, the halter tops of yesteryear’s sagging sides made formajor peekaboo action, Monaghen notes. Uh, see photo.
Pitch Staff Writer Peter Rugg Goes Gonzo Hurls Drink at Columnist, Waitress, Bar Owner
Ever get a drink tossed at you in a public place?
Me neither, until tonight! You know, with O.J. in the slammer and Russell Crowe on best behavior, nothing much fun happens anymore. That is until around midnight Thursday when Pitch staff writer Peter Rugg exited Lew’s Grill & Bar in Waldo, Continue reading
Megan Fox to McTavish: You Were Right Transformers 2 Does Suck
When KC Confidential entertainment hit man Brian McTavish laid the proverbial pipe to Transformers 2 recently the fan boys went nuts…
Take a hike, party pooper was their message – although it was delivered far less politely.
Turns out TF2 star Megan Fox more-or-less had McTavish’s back…
He definitely did a number on TF2.
“I can Continue reading
Hearne: Got Hookah? Sinbad’s Puffs its Way to Smoker’s Rescue
Smoke ’em if you got em….
Sure there are ways around Kansas City, Missouri’s controversial smoking ban if you know how to play the game. And that would appear to be the case with Continue reading
