Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Hearne on the Street: Life After Journalism in the Limo Lane
It’s not easy being a refugee from a dying industry…
Plenty of newspaper types are proving that point, and not just from the Kansas City Star. While the Pitch has merrily engaged in slitting throats like foodie Charles Ferruzza’s and former Night Ranger Jen Chen’s and Continue reading
Sheehan Calls Obama a Robber, Savoy to Close for a Year & Harley races
Anti war activist Cindy Sheehan loomed large at the Uptown Theater Sunday at a Continue reading
Tony Plays Peek-a-Boo with PETA Hotties While KCPD Looks On
Ever wonder just how nude those Continue reading
Buck Night Bust at The K: No Brewskies, No Bang, Dead Dogs
When it comes to wieners, size matters…
Royals fan and Waldo resident Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Six Months to Live for Wild Oats, 420 Day Rides Again & Is Cassel a Glass House?
Save the Earth…but what about Wild Oats? The “Happy Earth Day” sign was out at Kansas City’s last remaining Wild Oats
Git-R-Done: King Kong vs. Godzilla – Ralphie May Tackles Larry the Cable Guy
Not long ago hick humorist Larry the Cable Guy was packing places like Kemper Arena… No mas. Still what looks to be a double sellout of the new Midland Theater by the cable dude is nothing to sneer at. Equally, … Continue reading
Power & Light District’s Next Big Dress Code Debacle: Thongs at The Jones?
Will thong-wearing hotties corner the market on the Power & Light District’s next gargantuan dress code controversy? Word recently leaked by Tony’s Kansas City of an outdoor, rooftop pool atop the hoity-toity new Cosentino’s Downtown Market raises that and a … Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Westport’s Worst Nightmare; Loma Vista Hardware Closes Sunday
One of Westport’s hippest, most esteemed remaining retailers Loma Vista Hardware is poised to bail... 
It’s been 14 years since the old-fashioned hardware, antiques, skateboard and high end fashion boutique ventured into the midtown ‘hood. It replaced the highly-regarded, departing Broadway Hardware Co. Loma Vista retained Broadway’s charm, the musty wood floors, old-fashioned nuts-and-bolts bins, shopworn fixtures and the like.
However that was just the tip of Loma Vista’s business strategy iceberg.
Hardware and antique store owners Chuck and Shirley Dean’s son Todd had other ideas and supplemented the hardware store’s offerings by catering to the burgeoning skateboard culture and introducing cutting edge, nosebleed high-fashion like Continue reading
Holly Does Vegas: What Not to Wear Meets What’s Hot to Wear
The latest on 38 the Spot it grrrl Holly Starr’s long distance TV gig… Her new promotional partnering in Sin City on Vegas TV, Channel 25 (ILoveVegasTV.com) launched yesterday on Earth Day. Lemme guess, with Starr in a nature-friendly fig … Continue reading
Viva Las Vegas: Holly Starr Takes on Sin City
The latest on 38 The Spot hostess with the most-ess Holly Starr
Party Like an Egyptian at Uptown’s New Conspiracy
It’s been a long time coming…
A really long time, to state it plainly. For years Continue reading
Kansas Porn Star Disappoints, Disappears, Dates Duchovny
The latest on Kansan / former Miss USA Kelli McCarty?
For starters the Liberal, Kansas export is starring in her newly-minted, first-ever XXX adult movie, Faithless, Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Stanford’s Masters Mama’s, KC Hopps Walking Tall
With businesses dropping like flies, it’s good to get a little affirmative action…
Hey and the Legends in KCK is onto something resembling a mid-depression tear.
“We’re taking over the outdoor deck and patio that used to belong to Margarita Mama’s before they closed earlier this year,” says Stanford & Sons comedy club main man Craig Glazer. “We’re going to give it that West Coast beach look. You know, with the trendy beach drinks that you might get at a bar in San Diego. And we’ll have live DJs playing light dance and rock music on Friday and Saturday nights. You know, like Jack FM.”
Stanford’s new patio will be open Wednesday through Saturday from 5 p.m. on, Glazer says.
“It’s a pretty eye-catching spot right next to Dave & Buster’s,” Glazer says. “And it has a nice view of the fireworks displays after all the T-Bones games.” Continue reading
Adios Bats, Rats & Brats. Uptown Shoppes Goes Green.
Once upon a time…
there was this considerably crummy, rundown midtown shopping plaza at 37th and Broadway in Kansas City. Its name: the Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Self’s Rug, Foley’s Frolic, Quality Counting
This just in: counting crowd’s can be hazardous to one’s reputation…
Nobody knows that better than the Country Club Plaza and Kansas City’s vaunted St. Patrick’s Day Parade, both of whom folded like limp tents when asked to substantiate ridiculously high crowd estimates.
The bottom line: if you don’t even bother to try and actually count the crowd, you’re merely guessing. Continue reading
Ax and You Shall Receive: Guitar Hero Arcade Slams into KC
Who knew? One might wonder if the arrival of one of the country’s most ubiquitous video games – Guitar Hero – on the local bar and restaurant game might not be met with a collective yawn
Thrilla in Vanilla: Miller vs Muller, the Final Chapter?
This just in, from Stanford & Sons main man Craig Glazer…
That fabled Kansas City radio riotmaster Continue reading
Mancow to Agar, Darla Jaye: Shut Your Pie Holes!
Enough already… Kansas City radio export
Hearne on the Street: Star Shenanigans & Cup Sizes
Where to begin, when it comes to reading between the lines at 18th & Grand…
How about with the prevailing mood, according to insiders at the mammoth media mischance? Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Nine and Out, Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em
Think of it as nine nearly used up lives… Not only is Kansas City’s smoking ban loping along on death row, eight other Missouri cities are poised to have theirs reversed… So says Jonathan Sternberg, the attorney
