Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

There’s an elephant in the room but nobody seems to be able to see it… That in regard to pending murder charges against 19 year-old Sarah Gonzales McLinn in the brutal slaying of her former boss and live-in roommate, 52 year-0ld Lawrence … Continue reading →

No way is Jay Leno going quietly in the night… I may be wrong, but that’s my take having worked with Leno and kept an eye on him through the years. Because of that relationship, I got a call from … Continue reading →

Who goes to a WWE wrestling match on Super Sunday anyway? Who goes to a WWE match period, you might counter. Uh, me. I actually paid for tickets and took my stepsons – ages 11 and 15 and a comments … Continue reading →

Don’t take this the wrong way but… I’d like to dedicate this nightmarish snowstorm to…KSHB TV weather wonk Gary Lezak‘s mother Kay Rubell, who passsed away last Sunday. A little background… To get your head around this concept, you need to … Continue reading →

All bets are off at Alice 102.1 FM… Or perhaps on, depending upon how you look at it. Because as predicted here last week, the low-rated Adult Album Alternative (AAA) station is doornail dead and a robotic on-air countdown is on – … Continue reading →

Going, going… Triple A radio station Alice 102.1 FM isn’t gone yet, but the future of the Adult Album Alternative format on airwaves is soon to rest solely on the untested shoulders of a public radio station owned by public television station … Continue reading →

There’s nothing quite like quarreling over radio station ratings… On the surface, radio ratings may appear to be a zero sum game, but after the slicing and dicing of the all-important demographics go down – you know, men, women, age groups, … Continue reading →

How bad was it? Comedy club czar turned sports scribe Craig Glazer’s esteemed take on yesterday’s Super Bowl: “Well, unless you were a Seattle fan or bet a lot of money on Seattle, you’d probably call it the Super Dud,” Glazer … Continue reading →

Was a time Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock was a go to guy on significant matters of race and sports… Think about it. Like the time when long-in-the-tooth shock jock Don Imus uttered the words “nappy headed hos,” propelling Whitlock straight … Continue reading →

Deny, deny, deny… That’s a strategy some folks employ for almost any situation – any prickly situation – that they don’t want to admit to or have to deal with. And face it, when it comes to pending music format … Continue reading →

And now, the rest of the story… It’s not every day that Overland Park’s 22 year-old New Theatre Restaurant has to cancel its opening night performance. But that’s exactly what happened last Wednesday for the kickoff performance of the classic play … Continue reading →

Why is it that we seldom seem get the entire story? My theory – and it’s an obvious one – m-o-n-e-y. Which brings me to the January issue of Car and Driver magazine and its first-in-a-long-time Radar Test. That’s right, fellow … Continue reading →

There’s a reason fledgling journalists don’t get many  front page story assignments… That being it takes time and experience to sharpen the skills and develop the critical thinking necessary to report hard news, not just write whatever somebody says and … Continue reading →

A couple weeks back the Scribe pretty much nailed the Kansas City of today… Oh sure, he still loves it here – blah, blah, blah – but the excitement’s gone. The wide open, we can do anything – damn the torpedos – … Continue reading →

As rhetorical questions go, how long you should leave the Christmas lights up ranks fairly high… Given that Christmas, after all, comes and goes on December 25, wouldn’t the 26th seem as good a time as any to take them down? … Continue reading →

Weather, weather everywhere and not a drop to shovel… Think of the weather conditions here as the lull before the storms. So says KSHB TV weather wonk Gary Lezak about the area’s relatively mild climes as parts of the rest of … Continue reading →

Longtime readers of may recall the early days of KC Confidential… Including the occasions I turned flipped the spotlight around and pointed it at the denizens of our fledgling comments section. It was an exercise in alternately saluting and grimacing at the … Continue reading →

Think of it as the nice guys finish last syndrome… By most accounts former KMBC TV “weatherman” Joel Nichols truly is a really nice guy.  Yet after a quarter century at Channel 9 doing the weather and oddball, odd hour celebrity … Continue reading →

Time flies whether you’re having fun or not… That said, I was definitely having fun in the summer of 1992 when Kansas City Star publisher Jim Hale and spanking new editor Art Brisbane sent me down to the minors for … Continue reading →