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Holiday 2009: What they got & what they’re gonna do with it
Holiday 2009 is just about all over but the shouting tomorrow night Continue reading
Riot, Anyone? Bracing for Power & Light District ‘Cash Cannon’
In another life radio bad boy Randy Miller shucked out cash during a downtown Kansas City parade…
Net result: people were literally run over grabbing for the gusto.
Which brings us to the Power & Light Distict‘s latest promotion, shooting $5,000 in cash out of a “confetti cannon” onto the well-groomed, party hearty faithful at its “2010 Live! K.C.’s Biggest New Year’s Eve Party” blowout.
“I think it’s dangerous as hell,” says one nightclub nabob who asked not to be named. “You get a bunch of people drunk and then dump money all over them? Just wait until some guy grabs some money out of a girl’s hand – and that’s going to happen. Somebody’s going to get hit in the head and a fight’s going to start – it’s just that simple.
“Imagine a couple thousand people scrambling for that $5,000. Man, there’s going to be some pushing and shoving to get to that money. You think everybody’s going to be really nice and just daintily pick up the ones?”
Westport Flea Market main man Joe Zwillenberg‘s take on the dollar dump? Continue reading
Hearne: K.C. Confidential Wants You!
Heading into 2010, K.C. Confidential wants to up the ante… That’s right! Our newly-redesigned Web site is on its way so it’s time to boost the body count! Music, news and opinion writers, step up, be counted. Photographers, cartoonists, artists … Continue reading
Lose the Snow Cones: Lezak Lays Down New Year’s Eve Forecast
Lezak’s call for the all-important Continue reading
Storm Swami Lezak Conducts Touchdown Dance Over Holiday Blizzard
When you’re hot, you’re hot… Which is a bit of a contrast when the topic involves ice and snow, but that’s not stopping KSHB weather wonk Gary Lezak from celebrating the successes of his newly developed weather casting system. “You … Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Holiday High Five from KC Confidential!
There are those who Continue reading
The Hills Last Minute Shopper Alert: The 2009 smartfortwo
Don’t happen to live in Mission Hills, Kansas or on Sunset Hill in Missouri?
Not to worry.
While you may not enjoy enjoy the fruits of a seven figure income and editor Continue reading
The Hills Magazine: The Hills Are Alive With the Sale of Mansions
When it comes to the location, location, location residential real estate game, it doesn Continue reading
PVK Christmas War Heats Up: Does Father Christmas have Dark Side?
Nothing like a little Yuletide nastiness to heat up the holidays Continue reading
Roger Twibell Starting Golf Club Biz; Leaving 610 Sports
And now, as they sometimes say, the rest of the story…
Veteran television and radio broadcaster Roger Twibell will depart 610 Sports at year’s end to go into the custom golf club business with his new company Clear Golf (cleargolf.net).
“We’re launching right after the first of the year,” Twibell says. “I’ve been working on this for three years and we just got the Web site up. We’re not taking orders yet but we will be shortly after the first of the year.”
Twibell’s launch product, Continue reading
Martini Corner Ultra Lounge Mint to Close
This just in from Martini Corner magnate Chris Seferyn...
The ultra lounge known as Mint at 334 East 31st Street will close after the first of the year and be converted into a private event and banquet space to called The Monaco.
Mint’s Spring 2008 opening pitted it head-to-head with the Power & Light District’s nightclub onslaught and it never really took off. The original concept was that of an ultra lounge and fashion bar, complete with Continue reading
Tenacious Tenor Goes on Tear: the Rewakening of Nathan Granner
When it comes to world class, classically- trained tenors Nathan Granner has few peers…
That said, even Pavarotti didn’t play Carnegie Hall seven nights a week. And Granner’s recent performance of Continue reading
Will C Comes Home & Jimmy Shubert Does Tiger: This Weekend at Stanford’s
It’s a long way from Kiss tongue-wagger Gene Simmons A&E show Family Jewels to the wilds of Platte City…
But that’s exactly where comic Will C – a regular on Family Jewels – has come to hang with family and lay down some standup this weekend at Stanford & Sons in the Legends.
Think hick humor and you won’t miss it by much…
Hey and for $20 you can buy one of Will C’s “Palma Sutra” t-shirts, for example.
Headliner Jimmy Shubert is an altogether different breed of cat.
Not surprisingly, the Philadelphian tore into what’s left of Tiger Woods to start his show. Continue reading
Fine Arts Theatres Sweet Tooth Smuggler Redux: Money in Movie Candy?
About Fine Arts Theatres honcho Brian Mossman’s do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do treat smuggling ways…
Mossman was quoted recently by the Kansas City Star as saying his movie theaters – the Rio, Glenwood Arts, Leawood and Englewood – have a strict, posted policy prohibiting patrons from smuggling snacks.
Which reminded advertising maven Tracy Thomas of the time she bumped into Mossman and his grrrlfriend loading up on bulk candy before catching a show at a competing local movieplex.
Do you know how small this town is?
Ran into Mossman’s ex – Kathleen Kraushaar – the other night and had a chance to revisit the subject. Continue reading
The Case of the Plaza’s Missing Burger Boy
One of the Country Club Plaza’s most esteemed artworks has gone missing… Sorta. For more 30 years artist
Christmas in January? For Sure, Just don’t Eat the Snow
Dreaming of a White Christmas?
This year we get two shots at it; December 25th as usual and again for one week starting January 5 at the Music Hall with actress/singer Lorna Luft.
Christmas in the slammer: You Better Watch Out!
As friendly reminders go, the portly, older gent with glasses who frequently warns moviegoers at promo screenings to turn off their cell phones is in a league of his own…
Use your cell phone during the screening and it may be confiscated, he warns. And if it has a camera Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Phoenix to Rise Again for 20th!
This just in… Downtown’s
Ex KU Athletic Director Bohl on Mangino Firing, Gill Hiring
The architect of KU’s football renaissance was not Lew Perkins… 
It was former athletic director Al Bohl. It was Bohl who the Topeka Capital-Journal described last summer as “the father of modern Kansas football, which is to say he is the father of good Kansas football.”
The Bohl accomplishments cited in support of that claim: 1) he opened up tailgating on the hill and 2) he hired recently run-off head football coach Mark Mangino.
Bohl’s take on the unraveling of Mangino? Continue reading
