Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

Retailers, restaurateurs and nightclub owners love it… Bring on the fair weather and the fair weather customers, they say. For many the warm winter climes are a welcome respite from the gloomy, cold temps we’re used to at this time … Continue reading →

“I finally sold it,” says The News Room owner Kevin McGraw… And just like that one of Midtown’s most venerable watering holes faded into the history books a week ago today. “I was told Ernest Hemingway used to go there,” … Continue reading →

This just in from Ground Zero at 18th and Grand… Kansas City Star publisher Mi-Ai Parrish‘s” memo to co-workers re widespread reports and commentary on the controversial decision to make two reporters – Karen Dillon and Dawn Bormann – duke … Continue reading →

As to be expected, the preholiday forecast is dour to partly gloomy… The morale at the Kansas City Star in the wake of Monday’s layoffs debacle: “Morale? If the staff had any morale, it’d probably be lower, I’m sure,” says … Continue reading →

It’s hard to hide out when you’re a journalist and the entire media world’s watching? So it is that Kansas City Star publisher Mi-Ai Parrish came out from underneath her desk last night long enough to kinda-sorta set the record … Continue reading →

Seems the word of her death was greatly exaggerated… Sources at the Kansas City Star say reporter Dawn Bormann may not be well, but she’s still alive. That in the wake of news that the newspaper has asked Bormann and … Continue reading →

  They say what comes around goes around… In the case of Tuesday’s breaking news by KC Confidential about the Kansas City Star pitting two reporters – Karen Dillon and Dawn Bormann – against one another to see which gets … Continue reading →

This is the original story, but there’s so much more: The journalism world notices 18th and Grand, but not for beef Experts give thumbs down to Hunger Games scheme Star Morale at all-time low The publisher responds How cold can … Continue reading →

This just in from sources at the Kansas City Star… Another casualty of Monday’s layoffs and cutbacks at 18th and Grand: Would you believe the newspaper’s Kansas City Store? “I just heard both Star stores are closing,” says one newspaper … Continue reading →

Geez, is nothing sacred anymore? A scant two weeks before Christmas and the Grim Reapers at 18th and Grand are up to their old tricks. As in laying off staff right before America’s Holiday. “MEMO TO: Co-workers,” the internal notice … Continue reading →

For the better part of a decade it was his dream home… I’m talking about former Kansas City Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock‘s bachelor pad in South Overland Park. The four bedroom, three and a half bath Nottingham Forest abode … Continue reading →

Far be it from me to concede that music and soccer scribe Matt Donnelly painted me into a corner… Then again, he did call me out in last week’s “Sounds Good” column. Were we going to our annual KC Confidential … Continue reading →

About that Fleetwood Mac show at Sprint April 30th… Does the world really need another helping of dated 1970s arena pop rock? I caught Fleetwood Mac in concert at the then new Qwest Center in Omaha in the early-mid 2000s. … Continue reading →

Just when it was looking like former Star sports scribe Jason Whitlock had become a forgotten man… Up pops the devil in the form of no-name Kansas City Chiefs player turned murderer, Jovan Belcher. Belcher’s dastardly deed was the perfect … Continue reading →

Face it, everybody loves a good murder-suicide story… That much is obvious on the heels of little known  Chiefs player J0van Belcher‘s dramatic departure from this earth this past Saturday. I already bagged on the Star, which couldn’t wait long … Continue reading →

It’s so predictable, so formulaic… “A City United in Sorrow,” reads the headline atop today’s Kansas City Star. “Community Mourns – Kasandra Perkins and Jovan Belcher remembered.” WTF? Two people 99 percent of Kansas City never heard of before check … Continue reading →

Game on… For nearly a year now the powers that be at the elegant and esteemed American Restaurant in Crown Center have been plotting and planning. Tinkering even. Their mission: to young down the crowd at the upscale eatery which … Continue reading →

Don’t look now, but the party poopers at City Hall in Kansas City are turning over a new leaf… Sources say the Kansas City Council appears poised to relax the city’s density requirements which in Westport would allow the party … Continue reading →

It’s all over but the but the the crying… One year ago vaunted Plaza area jazz club Jardine’s hit the skids. That after a Thanksgiving holiday week from hell that spun out of control leaving former owner Beena Brandsgard trapped … Continue reading →

Anybody can direct you guys to sure fire, blockbuster, can’t miss events… Shows like next month’s Carrie Underwood at Sprint or Chris Isaak at the Uptown. Chances are you’re already planning to go if you’re into those artists and have … Continue reading →