Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Call Reporter Takes Hit From Jewish Chronicle, Gumming by Star
Say this for Call reporter Eric Wesson: at least he didn’t f-bomb anybody…
That said, the often affable Wesson’s email re: the Jazzy Jeff controversy at the Power & Light District had a somewhat similar effect to the Pitch reporter that f-bombed practically everybody within walking distance of the P&L recently after the DJ’s set was cut short.
Tony’s Kansas City was first to unleash Wesson’s email including this ditty:
“…Cordish like all jews they look at money not black or white.”
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle editor Rick Hellman hopped aboard the controversy today at High Noon: Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Surviving Hurricane Karrin at Jardine’s
She had me square in her sights…
Karrin Allyson could have dispensed with me in any number of ways: a caustic quip, face full of the beverage of the celebrated jazz crooner’s choice, full facial slap.
Who’s to say, I didn’t have it coming? Not me…
Especially after documenting for a second time, Allyson’s hair trigger temper and full frontal intolerance of noisy nightclub nabobs. But a funny thing happened at her sold out show last night at Jardine’s…
She took the high road.
Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear however: it wasn’t like the audience wasn’t well warned… Continue reading
Otis Redding to Reincarnate Friday at Liberty Hall in Lawrence
Hey, so what if the headline is a bit untruthful, got your attention, right? Plus that’s also how the clued-in, music mediums at Kief’s in Lawrence described Mike Farris to me when raving about his not-to-be-missed show at Liberty Hall … Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Mike’s Tavern Closing Mystery Solved
It’s really not hard to sort out lackluster whodunits like the closing earlier this week of Mike’s Tavern at 54th and Troost… It does however take a little reporting here and there. The Pitch gave it a shot last week, … Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Crawldo Sets Record, Journalists R Mortal
Was a time when Kansas City was something of a jazz pub-crawl hotbed Continue reading
Paws That Refeshes: lollaPAWlooza Hits Brookside Saturday
Full disclosure for keen-eyed commenters: I’m taking down low six figures for helping judge this baby Saturday, so wail away…
Animal lovers of the world unite!
The doggie park-loving folks at WOOF! in Waldo – the Continue reading
Mercurial Jazz Diva Descends on Jardine’s Tomorrow & Thursday
One of KC’s most petulant performers – and one of its most celebrated – Karrin Allyson will storm the stage at Jardine’s Wednesday and Thursday…
Columnist insert: be on your best behavior.
That’s because the Grammy-nominated jazz singer from Great Bend, Kansas is known to have a temper.
Quite a temper.
As evidenced by a column I wrote at Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: KC Smoking Ban Update, Sandstone Love
It happens every Monday night like clockwork…
Anti smoking ban dude Bill Nigro starts getting anxious about the call he will get the next morning around 9:02 a.m.
“I’m anxiously awaiting 9 a.m. tomorrow to see if there’s a decision from the Missouri Court of Appeals on the smoking ban,” Nigro said Monday.
The reason for Nigro’s telephone Tuesday Jones?
“Well, last Tuesday they put out a decision from a case that went down the week before ours did,” Nigro says. And every Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. the court of appeals posts their decisions online.”
Nigro was feeling lucky Monday night…
“You know what? I do,” he says. “I think it’s coming; I think it’s going to be this week or next.”
And so what happened? Continue reading
Royals Kill Off Fat Farm: All U Can Eat Seats Go Bye-Bye
A funny thing happened on the way to writing this item…
The initial concept: unleash feisty KC Confidential entertainment writer Brian McTavish on those outlandish all-you-can-eat seats at Kauffman Stadium.
The mission: bring back a rollickingly high-larious account of life in the chubby lane, sans any stomach pumping action where the big guy was concerned (McTavish stands 6’7″).
But try as I did to get a response from Royals mouthpiece Toby Cook on whether the promotion still existed going into its third year, and how to go about getting seats (the team operator shot me to an outside ticket broker when I asked the first time), I did not get a return call or email.
Unfamiliar with the Royals’ fat farm foolishness?
Tickets for the jelly belly jam ranged from $30 to $45 each and included all the hot dogs, peanuts, nachos, soft drinks and popcorn a hungry baseball fan could stand. Five hundred all you can eat seats per game were available last year.
The latest?
After three days of trying to get a straight answer from the Royals, I was finally told by someone in the ticket department or whatever that the deal had gone south; no mas.
Since the Royals aren’t talking, so I can only field a guess as to why it went away. So here it is: Continue reading
Move Over Oscar-Mayer: Westport Flea Market Burgermobile Splashes Down
Remember that spy pic of a rolling hamburger KC Confidential ran a couple weeks back?
The one that had the Westport Flea Market logo on a funky-looking deluxe cheeseburger with car Continue reading
Jonas, Who? Boy Band leaps on Leap’s Guitar Lamp Bandwagon
That Dan Leap plays lead guitar in the hard rocking band Pompous Jack, pilots DeLorean and Prowler sports cars, has been known to infuriate good-old-boy Merriam, Kansas politicians and manufactures Guitar Lamps is well-documented…
Kidnap victim Patty Hearst’s daughter, rocker Ted Nugent, even HGTV are among the higher profile entities that have paid homage to Leap’s lamps.
But when the biggest named stars of all came calling recently, Leap didn’t have a clue!
“The mangement for the Jonas Brothers called up a few months back and said they wanted a Guitar Lamp for their new TV series that they just started to film,” Leap says. “So they ordered a black Fender Stratocaster floor lamp.” Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Beer Pong to Martini Corner, Dirty Army Invades, Case of Missing Resume
Velvet Dog head dog Chris Seferyn has set aside the Martini glass and broken out the ping-pong balls…
The name of the game: Thursday Night Beer Pong at the Dog.
“You’re basically playing ping-pong by throwing the balls into these cups of beer,” Seferyn explains. “And there’s some skill involved.”
Not to mention some beer chugging…
“If your team is sitting there and the other team throws a ball into your cup of beer, you have to drink the beer to get the ball out,” Seferyn says. “That’s the rule.”
An entrance fee of $10 per person coversthe Continue reading
Presto Crawldo: Waldo Fest Corners Market on Women for One Night
There are no guarantees in life…
However Chris Lewellen is walking a fine line where tomorrow’s 5th annual Waldo Crawldo 13 bar bash is concerned. Be there or be square, Lewellen hints.
“I think we have a monopoly on women in Kansas City when we do these pub crawls,” Lewellen says. “I would say 80 percent of the advance ticket sales are to women.”
Here’s how it goes down, according to Lewellen:
“Anywhere in the city, all these girls pre-buy their tickets and show up between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.,” he explains. “Then when the guys get ready to go out between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., they start texting around to see where all the girls are. And when they find out they’re all in Waldo there’s this giant sucking sound.”
Columnist insert: don’t take that sucking sound thing the wrong way. Continue reading
Where Nadia Went Wrong: F-Bombs Aside
Earlier this week I faced a difficult decision: how to handle the Continue reading
Michael Roof aka Chicken: RIP
This just in from Stanford & Sons at the Legends main man Craig Glazer… I have some really horrible, terrible news,” Glazer says. “Michael Roof, Chicken, hung himself the night before last. His wife found him. I mean, you know … Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Addams Family Redux; Love Mortician Style
Everybody done celebrating Memorial Day, Valentine Continue reading
Hip-Hop Hits Overland Park; Not to Worry, There’ll Be Poetry Too
Are you ready for some hip-hop?
That Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Facebook Fiascos, F-bomb Aftershock, Photography 101
Talk about a strange synchronicities..
Who knew? Continue reading
Pitch Investigative Reporter Nadia Flips Out, Flips Off Kansas City
Make way for yet another social networking controversy Continue reading
