Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher

They say you can’t go home… Hey, maybe you shouldn’t, but come late this spring or early summer, I’ll be closing out a five year, self-imposed exile and returning to the Cowtown. Just one problem; I’ve got some catching up to … Continue reading →

Live by the sword, die by the sword… The mugshot on the front page of today’s Kansas City Star reminded me of something. The time eight years ago when Star editor Mike Fannin took a similar news bullet here at KC … Continue reading →

Return with me now to the dawn of alternative journalism in KC… To those formative first years when I began running a record store rag known as the KC Pitch. A time when the alternative newsweekly that inspired me most was St. Louis’s … Continue reading →

Turns out fat cat basketball boosters @ KU may not be getting any fatter after the new GOP tax bill kicks in next year… That’s because the controversial points system excommunicated former athletics head Lew Perkins implemented to extort big bucks from donors … Continue reading →

Nobody steps on the big Bill Self’s cape… Nope. That goes without saying, that in the wilds of Lawrence, Kansas – home to Self’s basketball Jayhawks – he gets a pass on anything short of maybe daylight bank robbery or … Continue reading →

Where’s the beef? One full week after 39 year old KC attorney Tom Pickert was gunned down on the front porch of his Brookside home by a dude some of his neighbors thought fled in a van owned by 79 … Continue reading →

Talk about burying the lead… They say a drowning man will clutch at a straw. Which appears to be the case at 18th and Grand as the beleaguered Kansas City Star dials sensationalism into every headline it can to try … Continue reading →

The trouble with group think? There’s too much of it, especially in the mainstream media. Add to that precious little in the way of diverse view points, and woe be to anyone who dares to step outside the boundaries of … Continue reading →

Which is it… Too many white folks or not enough blacks? Does not playing hip-hop music at dance clubs equate to racism? Should opinion-based writing appear on the local newspaper of record’s front page disguised as a news story? Just … Continue reading →

Journalists are like zoo animals, they love to be fed… Their meal of choice: Raw meat, as in off-the-record dirt that makes their jobs easier and more fun. Pretty simple, really. And few folks in the Cowtown were more adept … Continue reading →

We’ve all been here before… Stuck next to some annoying know-it-all or coworker. Maybe a stranger sitting next to you at a bar or whatever. And no matter what the topic, they blather on about the way things should be, … Continue reading →