Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

In the wide world of rumors, what passes for “news” travels fast… Take the New York Post‘s report that Kansas City refugee Jason Sudeikis will marry Olivia Wilde in upstate New York. Prior to that the couple’s pending nuptials were … Continue reading →

Ah rumors… Sometimes they’re true, more often they’re not. For months Lawrence has been buzzing about Kansas City comic Jason Sudeikis tying the knot with actress Olivia Wilde there. And not just because Sudeikis and Wilde have been spotted in … Continue reading →

Many moons ago, I recall driving to Sandstone in the off season… The mission: to cover the first annual Sandstone Auction. They didn’t have a ton of stuff back then, but there was more than enough rock n roll memorabilia … Continue reading →

Twenty-six and out… Word that the American Heartland Theatre at Crown Center is on death row begs the question, WTF? For the 26 years the Heartland banged out mostly middle-of-the-road fare using largely local actors for a crowd composed predominantly … Continue reading →

This just in… With odd exception, old people don’t like change. Big surprise. Then again, young people aren’t particularly fond of it either unless there’s something in it for them. But in the case of music and entertainment biz attorney … Continue reading →

Which Harrison Ford will show up here Thursday for the “red carpet” roll out of the new Jackie Robinson movie 42? Will it be the one who played Han Solo in Star Wars? The one who played Rick Deckard in … Continue reading →

For the record, Craig Glazer is not buying KC Confidential… For many of you, last week’s April Fools prank – announcing that the local comedy club main man was taking over KCC starting today – was exactly what it appeared … Continue reading →

Think of it as a moral dilemma… With sellouts mounting by the week, the sky’s the limit it would appear for Sporting Kansas City. The soccer club has become the model of what a successful professional sports franchise in Kansas … Continue reading →

Once upon a time they were free… Krispy Kreme was a kindly company that treated your kids to a hot-off-the-assembly-line fresh, hot, free doughnut. You didn’t even have to ask or buy anything, just happen by when doughnuts were being … Continue reading →

There’s only one small problem with the upcoming AEG Live Auction for Autism Speaks and it’s really not a problem at all… Midland by AMC lead organizer Candy Chorice – a veteran of many Sandstone Auctions past –  is bringing … Continue reading →

Remember that wive’s tale about bad things coming in threes? Let’s do an audit…there’s Walt Bodine dying, the KC Strip trolley going bye-bye, (don’t think I’ve forgotten about the letting you guys in on the racist situation that lead to the … Continue reading →

Royals baseball, dollar hotdogs, Halter Top Day… So goes the natural order of things in the wide world of summer sporting events Kansas City Style. Except that the latter of the three – Halter Top Day – won’t be returning … Continue reading →

I know, I know, it’s early… Still there’s something eerily familiar about the Kansas City Royals being in last place again already. Don’t get me wrong; I know that the conventional wisdom is this is the team’s year. Finally. It’s … Continue reading →

Round and round and round they go and… Who the heck knows why KC Mayor Sly James son Kyle is doing 30 days under the sanction of the Johnson County Department of Corrections. It’s certainly not at all clear in … Continue reading →

This just in… After more than four years, thousands of columns and tens of thousands of comments, I have agreed to sell KC Confidential to Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons.

The game is afoot… All Union Station head George Gustello said he wanted was a shot. A chance to prove the station’s new state-of-the-art Extreme Screen deserved to show first run movies, not just the standard issue “fin and feather” … Continue reading →

All dressed up, nowhere to go… Living in Lawrence these past six months I’ve come to know what a sub par newspaper sports section looks like. It’s one thing for the Lawrence Journal World to practice the fine art of … Continue reading →

Seems like only yesterday… It was New Year’s Eve eve just one year ago when the Pitch reported that Joseph Fulgenzi and Robert McCain were the new owners of Jardine’s jazz club. Remember that waiter dude in the comments section … Continue reading →

He may be old, he may cranky, he’s definitely self-absorbed, but every once in a while… Music industry maven Bob Lefsetz cranks one out of the park in the Food for Thought arena. One of his more interesting recent efforts … Continue reading →