Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

About that Negro Leagues museum controversy Kansas City Star readers were treated to yesterday… For starters it’s a rehash of a story that ran on Alabama.com last fall. Minus, of course, some of the positive points the proposed Birmingham Negro … Continue reading →

A tip of the hat to today’s Sunday Star… I’ve been bagging on the Sunday newspaper a lot, citing its lack of news content. Hey, if they want to keep up – in a small town way – with the … Continue reading →

Thou shall not steal… Whether tis nobler to win the hand of fair company by straightforward, above board bargaining, or merely to wheel out the local largess and leave the tab to taxpayers to be choked down a later point. … Continue reading →

In another life I’d have been at the KCBOT that last Friday for its sad send off… I earned my first paycheck there when I volunteered to help out over the Christmas holidays in the mailroom of my family’s firm, … Continue reading →

It ain’t easy being Craig Glazer… Truth be told, it’s a lot of work. There are hotties to bang (and put up with), wee hours radio and television shows to ferry comics to,  movie deals to be made and exotic … Continue reading →

Don’t look now but notorious KC bad boy Craig Glazer – a KC Confidential refugee – is this week’s Pitch cover boy… Courtesy of Pitch music and entertainment main man David Hudnall. The Scribe tells me the curtain will part sometime … Continue reading →

A moment of silence please for the festival known as Kanrocksas… Someday in the distant future, pop culture historians will look back – in momentary lapses of trivial pursuits – and wonder at what was to have become Kansas City’s Bonnaroo … Continue reading →

What’s the matter with Kansas? If we’re talking about the city of Lawrence and the KU Jayhawks basketball team, plenty. I live in Lawrence now and even though I still spend a ton of time in Kansas City, this town … Continue reading →

When a man makes an “Oklahoma Guarantee” it behooves him to live up to it… To that end, help yourself to this collection of letters from a group of school kids that I conducted a tour of the Kansas City Board of Trade for … Continue reading →

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world… Especially where female Chiefs fans are concerned, and it’s only going to get madder. That after savvy National Football League owners banded together to come up with a way to avert a Boston … Continue reading →

Ask and you shall… Hold it a sec, a reader request for an update on Jennifer Eichler aka Jennifer Foley aka The Watson’s Girl seemed reasonable enough. After all, it’s been two years since last we checked in on the grrrl … Continue reading →

It’s official… The divide between fighting terrorism and promoting high fashion has officially narrowed. Thanks to the National Football League and Kansas City Chiefs. You heard it right, no need to rub your eyes. Starting this season, the NFL will … Continue reading →

The Grinch is back… This time out courtesy of Kansas City-based – but now Chinese-owned – AMC Theatres.  However, instead of Christmas, AMC’s Grinch is going after Independence Day. Is nothing sacred? Guess not. “AMC’s request for proposals to move … Continue reading →

The headline in today’s Lawrence Journal World that went missing in the Star: “Self: KU still won’t play MU” “As long as the Big 12/SEC Challenge goes on in men’s basketball, Kansas will not be facing the Missouri Tigers,” the … Continue reading →

Will they ever learn? Time and again, the mainstream media falls prey to some of the dumbest hoaxes in the business and political universes. I’m talking about those commissioned feasibility studies paid for by vested interests and used to con … Continue reading →

As drunken expeditions go, this year’s Crawl for Cancer was a humdinger… A record setter, in fact. After years of going down in Westport, this year’s for profit “charity” event scooted down to the Power & Light District, who swiped … Continue reading →

Ah the power of suggestion… A couple weeks back movie man Jack Poessiger read somewhere that Star Magazine was going away. Something about getting folded into the Kansas City Star’s mundane millennial mind-number Ink. Next thing Man Jack knew, the … Continue reading →

It’s always a hoot getting different people’s takes on the news media… Having spent years conning, kissing up to – and at times – dodging reporters, then running and gunning at the Pitch and later playing hide-and-seek with editors at … Continue reading →

Ever see one of those tee shirts that read, U.S. Olympic Drinking Team? I always figured they were little more than crass college kid magnets, but saw enough of them around that somebody must have liked ’em. Kinda like some … Continue reading →

A moment of silence please for the ladies room at Halls Plaza… That’s right, while upscale, elite shoppers are bemoaning the pending passing of Kansas City’s finest department store, women from all walks of life are dreading the loss of … Continue reading →