Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

For three days when I’ve looked out my bedroom window I’ve gazed upon the Crown Center complex… Which, as you  might surmise, is because I’m staying at the Westin Crown Center Hotel. It’s been a while since I’ve spent this … Continue reading →

For the second time in less than five years Entercom has axed veteran radio personality Tanna Guthrie… The longtime KY102 and 99.7 KY personality has parted company with The Point 99.7 FM – reportedly on “good terms” – after a … Continue reading →

By now, everyone who cares  knows Alamo Drafthouse will suffer no fools at its new Mainstreet movieplex… Not the sort who talk or text during movies anyway. That said, there’s practically no limit to the foolishness Alamo will eagerly participate … Continue reading →

Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front… Fox 4 movie critic Shawn Edwards has nothing against babies – he even had one…once. “I do love babies,” Edwards says. “Just not at the movies.” However, were Edwards … Continue reading →

Make way for Big Brother… A spate of high profile killings by nut jobs – the Dark Knight massacre in Colorado, the Sikh Temple shootings in Wisconsin – have the country on edge. So much so that a team at … Continue reading →

Talk about 100 minutes of hell… You cannot go to a movie these days without sitting through a primer on cellphone etiquette. You know, about how texting is wrong – terribly wrong. Here’s what you can do though: And that’s … Continue reading →

This time last year owners of the urban dance club America’s Pub were up in arms… They felt the club was about to get kicked out of its longtime home in Westport’s Manor Square because many in the neighborhood blamed … Continue reading →

In yet another nod to the Pitch, it was called to my attention that editor Scott Wilson was taking major heat for eviscerating my pal, Star features columnist Jeneé Osterheldt. The expectation being, I guess, that I’d hop on the … Continue reading →

The Evil Empire strikes back! Anybody notice the full page Walmart newspaper ads in the Star and Lawrence Journal World that have been running? The ones in which Walmart  of Kansas City attacks hometown grocer Price Chopper. Wow, I totally … Continue reading →

Tons of travel and molten hot heat have resulted in lots of loose ends… Let’s tie a few of ’em up, shall we? Starting with an item that caught my attention recently in the Pitch.  Basically, the Pitch noticed in … Continue reading →

Let’s start with the premise that human beings, animals and sex are not s good mix… Can we agree on that? Now let’s take a look at one of Hollywood’s most un-hunky actor / heartthrob types, KCK refugee Eric Stonestreet … Continue reading →

LeRoy Neiman and Thomas Kinkade wannabes be gone with thee… The Kansas City Chiefs football team and the Hunt Family have issued a call for artists to inaugurate a new Kansas City Chiefs Art Program. It’s part of Chiefs honcho … Continue reading →

Subject for today; institutions that are going away… I’d already been giving this some thought lately while driving cross-country to Tucson and back from Kansas City. In many ways the trip served as a refresher course on how much things … Continue reading →

  About last month’s All Star Game hype…   While there’s little doubt Kansas City benefited by hosting the event, the extent to which some media and boosters over dramatized and hyped the event was a bit much. The underlying … Continue reading →

Remember that childhood axiom about nice guys finishing last? That’s how most sports media jock sniffers have been treating Joe Posnanski where his upcoming book about disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is concerned. Guilty until proven innocent. No … Continue reading →

Many in the media are hesitant to let anybody know they’re out of town… As if lowlifes or the under class will rise up and burgle them. That’s why the Star always included that cryptic line by my pic when … Continue reading →

Turns out those Alamo Draft House dudes aren’t such tough guys after all… The new signs are up on the former AMC Mainstreet theater downtown’s marquee announcing the switch to Alamo and the Texans have plenty of cool, new things … Continue reading →

At long last Kansas City PR dude Will Gregory is sporting a new set of wheels… The reason: “A deer hit me in broad daylight,” Gregory says. “I was coming home from a kids soccer game in Lee’s Summit.” How … Continue reading →

So many dumb-dumbs, so little time… It’s crazy out here, 104 degree heat, movie rampages, otherwise reasonable people saying completely unreasonable things. Let’s start with Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel who said the following last week about disgraced Penn State … Continue reading →

No two ways about it… If the exit doors out of the now-infamous Cinemark movieplex in Aurora, Colorado had been equipped with audible alarms, there’s a good chance last week’s movie massacre wouldn’t have gone down as it did. If … Continue reading →