Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Rip His Eff-ing Head Off: Will R-Rated KU Football Chant Return?
About KU Football’s controversial kickoff chant… 
You know the one – “Rip his fucking head off!”
For several seasons – during the Mark Mangino Years – the student section at KU’s Memorial Stadium gleefully howled the slogan at the moment of truth during KU kickoffs.
Much to the painfully obvious chagrine, of course, of Continue reading
About Those Looming Kansas City Star Cutbacks…
Look, I’m not a party to the planning of rumored cost cutting measures at Kansas City’s newspaper of record…
Not that I wouldn’t be happy to help.
However, last year when Continue reading
Comic Who Dated Tiger’s Mistress Lays Down the Story
A funny thing happened last night at funny guy J. Chris Newberg’s sold out show at Stanford & Sons…
Newberg did not unleash a single Tiger Woods joke. That despite the fact that he dated the embattled golf great’s mistress Jaimee Grubbs at the same time she was making time with Tiger.
He did however, share some behind the scenes details in a post show interview.
First a few examples of Newberg’s humor (and drunken audience control techniques). Newberg’s visit here wraps tonight with his 7 p.m. show at the Legends:
Newberg channeled our recent deep freeze to put a chill on one mouthy audience member: Continue reading
KC Confidential Exclusive: Waterboy, Duece Bigalow Stanford’s Bound
This just in-funny guy Rob Schneider has agreed to a 3-day engagement Stanford & Sons at the Legends...
“I pulled off a coup,” says Stanford’s main man Craig Glazer. “That’ll be the biggest comedy show of the year here – he’s never played Kansas City. He’s doing about 10 club dates around the country.”
The reason Schneider opted to play small clubs rather than larger venues like the Midland?
“He could do theaters if he wanted to but he’s getting ready for this big movie with Adam Sandler,” Glazer explains. “And it’s called ‘leg-stretching.’ So instead of a big audience at the Midland, they get in a smaller venue where they can try a lot more new material and they’re not under the pressure to do quite as tailored a show. Continue reading
Hearne: Jason Whitlock to Depart Kansas City Star?
The latest hot topic at the Kansas City Star: will feisty
Hearne: Wendall Anschutz Greatest Hits
The passing of Channel 5 broadcast legend Wendall Anschutz last week is the perfect excuse to flash back KCTV anchor Continue reading
Rumors of More Layoffs at Kansas City Star on the Rise
For weeks the scuttlebutt at the Kansas City Star was that more layoffs were on the way, possibly in January…
And now that the time has come the talk in the newsroom is that the cuts will be involuntary and involve as many as seven journalists.
You may recall last summer that Star editor Mike Fannin came roaring back into the office in the middle of his vacation to work out the terms for what was thought by newsies would be a major round of involuntary cuts. Instead the Star implemented a voluntary separation program and dinged staffers with mandatory unpaid one week furloughs.
The plan: “..to put Continue reading
Holy Guido Toledo: KC Refugee Tears It Up on Facebook!
Once upon a time, in a place far away – Blayney’s in Westport – there was a band called 4 Sknns...
It was the 1980s and tunesmith Joe “Guido Toledo” Welsh was at the top of his game. Sure, he would later move to Nashville and sell out by performing corporate rock for Wal-Mart, but the real question was, would he lose his edge?
Now, thanks to the miracle of Facebook, we can attempt to answer that question.
For starters Welsh describes himself as a “Fifty-something Muso meandering through the world wide web with the rest of humanity, looking for a dry place and a smiling face!”
His religious views: “I believe dinosaurs once ruled the Earth and that there is life elsewhere in the Universe.”
Check out Welsh answers in Facebook’s “about me” section. Continue reading
Size Matters: You Got it, You Blur it, it’s Still Fuzzy
Gotta love it when anonymous, fictionally-named “reporters” lay down non-expose, exposes…
Such was the case today with the KC Tribune’s “Anita Gadfly” and her attempt to fashion a mini controversy about Web traffic. For starters the basic premise of Ms. Gadfly’s post was bogus:
“Whose is bigger?” her headline queried. “A small kerfluffle erupted online recently here in Kansas City about web traffic and whose is bigger,” she continued.
Hello…
Gadfly’s story centers on a couple posts and comments made by myself and Continue reading
Wendall Anschutz: KCTV Anchor Remembered
Was a time when KCTV news anchor Wendall Anschutz loomed large around these parts…
Anschutz passed away earlier today, so return with me now to those bygone days and his exploits as documented by me in the Continue reading
Mad Max? KY102 Host Roast Likely to be Sentimental Journey Not Wilding
About the Uptown’s upcoming roast of Rock n Roll Hall of Fame radio personality Max Floyd...
Could be on the tame side, if roaster Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons is any measure.
“To me, Max has been perpetually 70 since I first met him,” Glazer says. “To me he’s just an older guy like Dick Wilson.”
Roaster Glazer’s wildest ever Floyd observation of Floyd? Continue reading
Former Pitch Editor Jim Hense Talks About Good, Old Daze at Alt Weekly
Believe it or don’t…
Once upon a time, long ago there were no phony Pitch “street teams,” “Like Me” ad sellouts, just long hours, very small paychecks and the will to party.
That was then…
And former Pitch editor Jim Hense remembers it well.
A little known fact is Hense was the first full-time editor of the Pitch in the mid-late 1980s when it disembarked from Pennylane Records in Westport and set sail for the wide world of alternative journalism.
Full disclosure: I hired him.
Hense’s wildest memory from those bygone daze? Continue reading
Former Pitch Editor Takes Obama’s Dog Bo Fishing in Chesapeake Bay
One of Kansas City Continue reading
Move Over Tom Jones: “Trash Mouth” Baker’s Permanent State of Arousal
Good god almighty, lord have mercy..
For years local blues diehards have marveled at singer Tom “Trash Mouth” Baker’s seemingly steadfast state of arousal while performing on stage. Simply stated, the fact is that there is nothing whatsoever subtle about Trash Mouth’s, um, condition, as evidenced by his performance Tuesday night at Knuckleheads Saloon.
I’m going to try and be reasonably subtle for the sake of good taste here, but do the words “tent ” and “pole” ring any bells?
Trust me, I’m not exaggerating.
The plain fact is, were Trash Mouth to perform at, say the Kansas City Country Club, for example, he could easily be arrested for violating Mission Hills’ Public Nudity Ordinance, Section 11.16. for the depiction of “covered male genitals in a discernible state of Continue reading
Joe Miller Declares War on Funk: Will Work for Free
Seems like only yesterday, Jolting Joe Miller – acclaimed local author and ex Continue reading
KY102 Legend Max Floyd’s Soggy Lunch Date with Cheryll Jones Revisited
About vaunted KY102 personality Max Floyd’s celebrity Roast January 30th at the Uptown…
Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. event – from $25 to $100 apiece – are available at Ticketmaster and include a concert afterwards with classic KC rockers Shooting Star. Now on to my Floyd flashback that will suffice as my early contribution to the roast.
For starters a funny thing happened the other day after former fellow KY guy Jack Poessiger wrote about Floyd’s schmooze on KC Confidential.
“Wonder how many of Max Continue reading
Randy Miller Show to Broadcast from Power & Light District!
Don’t look now, but one of the Cowtown’s baddest, bad boys is poised for a comeback…
Starting January 11, 2010, Randy Miller, of Q104 and ZZ99 fame will hit the ground running on KCPLRadio.com from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The name of Miller’s coming soon new on-air game: “Wake Up in KC weith Randy Miller. Mornings Will Never Be the Same.”
“It’s going to be the most exciting thing in the most exciting place in Kansas City,” Miller says. “We’re going to broadcast from the Savvy Coffee & Wine Bar and we’ll build a studio down there.” Continue reading
Poker Anyone? Hackers Hijack Jardine’s Web Site!
It’s an effing jungle out there…
For the second time in recent months Continue reading
Randy Miller Weighs in on Power & Light District Cash Cannon Debacle
The year was 1990 and stunt-happy Q104 superstar DJ Randy Miller was at the height of his powers…
And just like the Power & Light District’s planned Continue reading
Decade Ends that Began with Ida Taking Bat to Brett
Was a time everything I wrote about iconic local jazz crooner Ida McBeth was music to her ears…
No mas.
Haven’t spoken with McBeth – who closes out the decade tonight at Jardine’s – since the dawn of the New Millenium, July of 2000 to be exact.
I was choking out five columns a week then at the Kansas City Star – a fairly active pace – and got a call one morning from a pissed off Ida. Her goal: to get her story out about how retired Royals star George Brett had majorly dissed her. My goal: to shepherd the next day’s column through the FYI copy desk. So I listened – without taking notes – while she ranted and raved about Brett’s boorish behavior and suggested we discuss it later. Continue reading
