Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Hearne on the Street: Dierks Bentley strikes Lucky Strike Tonight and Snow Patrol Uptown Bound!
Modern Day Drifter alert… This just in from sources not to be named later: hunky country music star
Kansas City Barbecue: The Good, the Sad and the Smugly
The bottom line for those of us trapped here in the ever so humble flyover zone: we Continue reading
Hearne: September 11, 2009, Dawn of a New Day in KC Party History
Something wickedly boffo this way comes… Can’t let the cat out of the bag just yet, but trust me: Kansas City Nightlife may never be the same. Think of it as the rise in the fall. You can’t eat it; … Continue reading
Funk & Yael’s Excellent Adventure sans Tenpins Action
This just in from KC Mayor Mark Funkhouser re his eyewitnessing of last weekend’s P&L brawl…
The Funk was hanging with Star editorialist Yael Abouhalkah in the post midnight hours Saturday when the reported stabbings and 20-person melee went down. It was what Funkhouser refers to jokingly as Yael & Funk’s Excellent Adventure.
“Well, I wanted to go down and see what was happening,” Funkhouser says.
The highlight of their Odd Couple Adventure went down after 2 a.m. when they were hanging at the Lucky Strike bowling alley.
“Right when we were getting ready to leave we saw some people being ushered out,” Funk says. “Including a six foot tall Aisan kid who looked like he had been punched and his girlfriend who was just sobbing profusely. I mean, she was out of control screaming and crying, and she’d been hit in the face and was bleeding from the face. And I just sort of stood there to see what was going to happen next. The Asian kid was injured and obvioulsy very angry and upset, and he couldn’t figure out whether to go back in there or stay and comfort his girlfriend. Then the Kansas City police ushered an African American kid out that seemed to be the perpetrator. And when Yael and I were leaving the parking garage there were a whole lot of emergency vehicles.”
The $64 million question: was it a bowling date, as P&L District sources claimed? Continue reading
Craig Glazer’s ‘King of Sting’ True Crime Story Lands Heavy Hitter Screen Scribe
Make way for the haters… 
It’s like clockwork; write something, anything online about Stanford & Sons comedy club kingpin Craig Glazer and out come the boo-birds – the, uh, anonymous boo-birds. This news ought to really rile ’em.
It comes via today’s Hollywood Reporter.
“Veteran scribe Dan Gordon has been anointed to pen ‘The King of Sting,’ ” the Reporterreports. “The writer behind ‘The Hurricane’ and ‘Wyatt Earp’ has signed to write the screenplay for the drama about the life of con man Craig Glazer. Continue reading
Hearne: Bowling for Schmooze Points, Wonder Polishes Apple & Star Promotes Closed Club
Talk about super strange bedfellows…
About that melee that went down during the wee hours Saturday (technically Sunday) in the Power & Light District. The one where three people were stabbed and 20 or so others were involved in a fight that allegedly started inside Continue reading
Hearne: All Michael All the Time; Nas, Damian Marley Salute Jacko
Don’t stop till you get enough? When it comes to milking the you-know-what out of notable news most media never seem to get enough.
Hearne: Was Michael Really King of Pop? The Debate.
King of Pop or has been? You make the call…
Forget for a moment the debate over whether Michael Jackson will be best remembered as a musical genius or world’s biggest perv. The question at hand is, was he in fact The King of Pop as the front page of the Kansas City Star today decreed.
“You can have the debate,” says KC Confidential entertainment writer Brian McTavish. “But I mean, it’s self-serving. He invented the title for himself and he certainly promoted it’s use.”
Kief’s Downtown Music in Lawrence main man Steve Wilson concurs.
“As great a career as Michael Jackson had, that was a tribute he gave himself,” Wilson says. “You know, he wanted very much to be in that Pantheon with Elvis and the Beatles. And what could be bigger than the king of pop? This is how the myopic and self-involved that are isolated by their own little Mafias think. They kind of have to be continually reminded and reinforced that they’re something special – and in many respects Michael Jackson was something special.”
But after more than a decade of musical irrelevance, did Jackson still lord over the pop kingdom? Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Lava Room Help Wanted Ad Still Up & Running
Hey, times are tough…
For months midtown nightclub the Lava Room has been wrestling with its future.
“Want to be a bar owner!?!” a sign atop the building front on Broadway has read. “25% / 50% / 100% of 3 a.m. Business OR 100% of business + building – inquire within”
As I reported late last year the club was closed for a spell.
“I was only closed for not paying sales tax,” says Lava Room owner Jimmy LeBlanc. “From like a Tuesday until the following or the next Friday. I missed Halloween, that was the bad one.”
The reason for the sign? Continue reading
Karrin Does Boris: Swiss Miss Mellows for Tennis Titan Nuptials
Here in Kansas City, Jazz rules…
And if you believe that, there’s a plastic sax Continue reading
Uptown’s Egyptian Conspiracy Walking the Walk, Waking the Dead
The best laid plans of Continue reading
Star Movie Critic Robert Butler Falls Asleep During ‘Transformers’
Just how kick-ass good is the movie Tranformers 2?
Can’t tell you until Wednesday when the highly anticipated sequel is released.
That’s basically the deal media types make to attend advance screenings so they can prepare their reviews and other features pre-planned for public consumption.
This much I can tell you though, Monday’s screening of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” at AMC’s Olathe 30 was so popular that moviegoers were lined up three and a half hours before to ensure entry into the plex.
Nobody wants to miss the blockbuster hit of the summer, especially when it’s free and no one else has seen it.
Oh, and the security…
The shouted-out warnings before the movie by a Marine drill Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Star Movie Critic Fesses to Sleeping on Job
Too funny…
An eyewitness report on KC Confidential Continue reading
“Naked People Doing Naked things” Thursday at Hobbs in Lawrence
From a single window pane to an R-rated glass encased mural…
Thursday’s gallery-esque art show at purveyor of all things hip, Continue reading
Famous Johnnys Takes Dirt Nap: OP Comedy Club Closes at Hooters Plaza
To laugh or not to laugh, that was the question Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Jones Kickoff Pool Party a Throwdown to Woodside
It’s official – the water fight of the summer is on…
Friday night’s pool party shakedown cruise for Continue reading
Theater League’s Mark Edelman Joins KC Confidential!
This literally just in….
Mark Edelman, the dude who practically singlehandedly brought Broadway to KC – as in the industry’s top musicals and plays – is joining forces with KC Confidential and will be writing about theater and live jazz.
Check out his bio below for a tongue-in-cheek preview of things to come. Continue reading
The Call’s Wesson Enters Clothes Horse Race, Reveals Sexy Side
Who knew controversy-embroiled The Call writer Eric Wesson was a fashion plate of the first order?
Lots of people dress up to try and catch up to dapper KCPT host Nick Haines when guesting on Kansas City Week in Review. But Wesson’s foray into fashion for gentlemen’s rag Esquire went way that.
Way beyond.
Here’s the deal…
Wesson is entered in Esquire’s Best Dressed Real Man contest and is vying to win “a very stylish prize package that is worth over $30,000,” according to the magazine. Readers were invited to vote for the stud of their choice beginning May 1st and ending May 31st. Five finalists will be announced August 11, with the winner being crowned in September.
Will Wesson walk away with $15,000 in cold cash, a year’s supply of Nivea for Men products, a $5,000 IWC watch, a $10,000 Kenneth Cole wardrobe and a VIP trip to New York City to attend a runway show during fashion week? Will his smooth, sexy form grace the pages of the September issue of Esquire? Continue reading
New Northtown Opry Exiled to Edgerton
For 18 years North Kansas City’s Northtown Opry was a local institution…
That is until four years ago when former NKC mayor Gene Bruns masterminded closing the Opry’s city-owned home base for improvements. But instead of quickly completing a redo as planned, the weeks turned into months, the months into years before the city finally decided to sell it to Screenland main man Butch Rigby. Rigby plowed $1.5 million into the project and reopened it as the Screenland Armour last year.
Net result: the sale and transformation rendered main man Byron Jones’s Opry homeless.
