Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

Hey, it was good enough for former KU athletic director Lew Perkins… However when my wife and I sampled the Italian restaurant Intorno in Lawrence shortly after it opened a year and a half ago, it was beyond bad. It … Continue reading →

A funny thing happened on a recent Friday after KCC’s Paul Wilson tried to make contact with a local jeweler embroiled in an ocean of controversial rumors… If you recall, the jeweler’s offices were closed that day with a posting on … Continue reading →

Ever wonder what it might be like to take the measure of an all-girl assemblage of horny housewives, errant strippers and girls-next-door gone wild? Wonder no more because yours truly took one for the team last Thursday, when the Chippendales … Continue reading →

The secret to the Big 12 basketball tournament’s success in KC? Not KU’s 80,000-plus strong alumni base in Kansas City. Nor K-State’s, and not Mizzou’s paltry 26,000 alums. Nope, when it comes to propping up the Big 12 tourney (and fostering tourism) the undisputed champ … Continue reading →

As if the Power & Light District doesn’t have enough problems… Lawsuits claiming racism, diminished business with ramped up competition from Westport, Waldo and South Johnson County. Comes now more bad news in the form of first time ever beer … Continue reading →

You got it, you sell it, you still got it… And no, we’re not talking about sex, but rather The Pitch website, which earlier today – alarmingly – went dark and was replaced by a Go Daddy website for sale sign. That’s … Continue reading →

Leave it to the Kansas City Star to find a way to make sex uninteresting… Seriously. Not that a study called The Hustle about the “economics of the underground commercial sex industry” was meant to titillate, still did anybody else … Continue reading →

It’s becoming increasing clear when it comes to the University of Kansas that money talks and pretty much everything else walks… Even tiny amounts of money, as in a paltry $25 per student, per semester fee used to help fund women’s … Continue reading →

Brace yourselves Chiefs fans, prepare for the worst…. Because everybody’s favorite sports know-it-all Craig Glazer is back to let you in on the awful truth about this year’s Kansas City Chiefs. “I am so down on this team,” Glazer says. … Continue reading →

The handwriting’s on the wall… And sooner, rather than later. Vaunted KU basketball coach Bill Self is not long for this world – that being Lawrence – says sports handicapper Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons. “It just makes sense, he’s … Continue reading →

As sleepy smaller cities go, Lawrence ranks right up there with the best of em… At least when it comes to murder. That is until last summer, says Lawrence police spokesman  Sgt. Trent  McKinley. “Since July we’ve had five homicides,” … Continue reading →

What’s that expression? Don’t believe anything you read (or hear) and only half of what you see. Sounds like a perfect fit for what Stanford & Sons main man Craig Glazer says he was told about The Jones Pool downtown … Continue reading →

A year ago KU was suffering from a bad case of, is Bill Self‘s marriage on the rocks… Here’s what I wrote about it last summer on Lawrence Confidential: “That Kansas basketball coach Bill Self allegedly had been kicked out of his seven-figure … Continue reading →

Still no return calls from the KC Jeweler alleged to be in dire straights with the law…  Which is understandable in that while it’s believed something is going down behind the scenes, as experts have explained, these sorts of things … Continue reading →

From first to worst? There’s a reason Kansas City will not be getting the 2016 Republican Convention and it’s a lousy one, insiders say. Because KC mayor Sly James – a Dem by any other name – kicked “public affairs and … Continue reading →

Guilty as charged… Regular readers know every now and so often I saddle up and take a look at what’s left of Kansas City’s one-and-only alternative newsweekly, The Pitch. And, full disclosure, I did lead the charge during the Pitch’s … Continue reading →

Think clash of the titans… For more than 20 years inventor dude Mike Valentine‘s radar detector the Valentine One has more-or-less been the undisputed champion in the speeding ticket avoidance industry. An industry that came of age during the Richard Nixon … Continue reading →

Keep this under you hat, but Bill Self‘s $17.5 million luxury apartments complex just got whacked… What, you didn’t read any news stories about it either? The first mention of the whacking – from $17.5 million down to $10 million or … Continue reading →