Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Hearne: Don’t Miss KC Confidential’s Christmas Wilding Wednesday @ Stanford’s
Brace yourselves… This year’s KC Confidential Christmas Wilding is about to unfold. Better and badder than ever, btw, in part because we’re shedding our in-town ways and holding the shindig in South Johnson County. That’s right, in the land of milk and honey where propped up two-income … Continue reading
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Tagged April Macie, Craig Glazer, Hearne Christopher, Rosana Square, Stanford & Sons
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Star beams: P&L Red Light Zone, Bill Cosby, NASA & Making Whoopi
The historic Power and Light Building will be renovated with some apartments going for as much as $3,500 a month. If you’re a woman you can make that money back quickly via that giant flashing red light. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Cosby, Hearne Christopher, Kelly Urich, The Point 99.7 FM, Whoopi Goldberg farts
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Hearne: The Pitch Nails American Royal for Failed Tradition, Bogus Bad Deal
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… A picture is worth 60 million words (and bucks). I say that because the photo Pitch photographer Chris Mullins took of the 50 or fewer folks in the stands at Kemper Arena for the … Continue reading
Star Search: Dysfunctional Local News Coverage Abounds
Haven’t knocked one of these out in a while… You know, where I read and critique the daily newspaper of record. When the idea first came to me I thought. “Hey, why not do it every day?” It didn’t take long to realize … Continue reading
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Tagged Kansas City Star, KU football, Lawrence Journal World
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Hearne: The Rise & Fall of ‘Husker’ Greg Hall
Who’s gonna believe they’re getting an unbiased opinion on this one? Then again, does it really matter? What opinion really is completely unbiased, including those of “reporters” for newspapers such as the Kansas City Star? Truth is, with the odd exception there’s no … Continue reading
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Tagged Greg Hall, Hearne Christopher, Kevin Kietzman, Marti Dolinar, smartman, Soren Petro, Tony's Kansas City
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Hearne: Is ‘Black Friday’ On Its Last Legs?
Do you believe in the concept “too much of a good thing?” If so, you may have noticed these past two years that the hullaballoo surrounding Black Friday is beginning to subside. I certainly did last night. In making the rounds … Continue reading
Hearne: Area Investigative Journalists as Endangered Species
Was a time investigative reporters at the Kansas City Star could phone it in… The award-winning journalists there were treated like “tribal elders” – men and women who through age and experience were respected and admired for their wisdom and held in high regard, … Continue reading
Hearne: Journal World Shoots Arrow at Roy Williams, KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little
Remember that line about walking softly and carrying a big stick? That’s hardly the case in Lawrence, Kansas where the walking is almost always pretty darn soft and the size of the stick is not only small, it’s all but invisible. That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernadette Gray-Little, ESPN, Paul Wilson, Roy Williams, University of Kansas
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Hearne: Legendary Audio/Video Store Kief’s ‘Business Liquidation’ Auction 9 a.m. Saturday
A moment of silence, please for the Kansas City/Lawrence area’s finest electronics retailer… After more than half a century Kief’s Audio Video is no more. The store closed quietly a few weeks back and at 9 a.m. tomorrow Kief’s will liquidate … Continue reading
Hearne: RIP John Muller 1949-2014
The advertising, arts, business community and beyond celebrates the life of John Muller tonight at 7 p.m. in the Kansas City Art Institute‘s Vanderslice Hall.
Hearne: Ad Icon John Muller Dies & Much Ado About Nothing KU Win
Just what I needed, a weeklong battle with a cold/flu… Consider that my calling in sick after the fact. But I’m back and I’m bad, so where is that tub-O-lard Lazlo dude? I’ll tear him to pieces. He’d best pray … Continue reading
Hearne: American Royal Turns Foutch Brothers Into ‘Ouch Brothers’
Now it can be told… The first thing that sprang to mind last week when I learned that the Foutch Brothers had mysteriously and abruptly withdrawn their bid to save Kemper Arena by turning it into a regional youth sports facility was … Continue reading
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Tagged American Royal, Kemper Arena, Mariner Kemper, Neal Patterson, Terry Dunn
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Hearne: October 2014 KC Radio Station Rankings
They’re up, they’re down… Who’s on first? Who’s on third? Who should have tried to make it home before Salvadore Perez bought the farm? Will The Buzz ever knock off The Rock, and why did its ratings barely rise when management was expecting a … Continue reading
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Tagged 96.5 The Buzz, Charles Ferruzza, Hearne Christopher, Jasper's, JJ Mirabile, Lazlo
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Hearne: Why This Year’s Post Season Run By The Royals Matters Little
Local sports media (and jock sniffers) couldn’t wait to set the Royals World Series defeat aside and laud the arrival of a new golden age of baseball in Kansas City… It’s story that’s been written before, long before the Royals post season successes last month. Sportswriters are homers … Continue reading
Hearne: Dissecting The Pitch ‘Best Of KC’ Awards
Who doesn’t like a good tip? Like, you should check out this new band, restaurant, etc, But at some point there is such a thing as to much of a good thing. And in the case of the 1014 Pitch … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Ferruzza, Hearne, Pitch Best of KC
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Hearne: An Overdue Critique of The Pitch ‘Best Of” Issue
I’ve been putting this off all baseball season… Baseball season for me being the month of October – or Okctober – as Dick’s Sporting Goods came within a World Series game of calling it. I’m referring of course to the annual Pitch “Best … Continue reading
Hearne: KC Opera Singer Slips, Wins Bet & Chevy Dealer Jinxes Royals
Kansas City’s biggest non baseball World Series slip-up? Call it a tie, between opera singer Joyce DiDonato – who warbled out the National Anthem opera style before Game 7 – and Molle Chevrolet in Blue Springs – that laid a pre … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Anderson, Joyce DiDonato, Kansas City Royals, Molle Chevrolet
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Hearne: Four Thumbs Up for Spirit Airlines
Allow me to stick it to Man Jack for just a minute…. You know, KCC’s resident movie, travel and sex-for-hire expert. That’s because I had the pleasure of flying Spirit Airlines to Chicago last week and in spite of the gentle German’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Hearne Christopher, Jack Poessiger, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines
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