KC Confidential

Happens to the best of ’em…

The latest on Stanford & Sons honcho Craig Glazer: He’s head over heels.

“Well, about six months ago my manager at Stanford’s David – he’s a player, early 30s – told me that there was a girl at a strip club not far from here called Whispers that had asked about me a lot and was really cute and that I should meet her. And I said, ‘David, I really don’t want to date another dancer because the last one was Black Barbie and that didn’t end well.’

“I mean, strippers are good in bed and they’re exciting, but they’re trouble and can date anyone they want to, including Chiefs players. And you’re like a dog chasing a car, what do you do with them once you catch them? You’re not going to get married. It never ends well. And just because you’re sleeping with them doesn’t mean anything.”

So much for prudent thinking. Continue reading →

It may seem like such a small detail…

Yet in the wide world of discouraging the kind of urban youth problems the Country Club Plaza is now embroiled in, every chess moves counts. And in the case of Westport – which doesn’t have to worry about teenagers flocking to Jerry Harrington’s art house cinema the Tivoli – it comes down to music.

That’s right, music.

In past years Kansas City’s original entertainment district has battled large groups of inner city kids in search of the late night good times afforded by stoking on hotties outside largely black dance clubs like America’s Pub,  Karma, Club 504 and the Harris House. That and the occasional urban shows at the Beaumont Club.

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Will one more Final Four, possibly a National Championship be Bill Self’s swan song?

Obviously, that remains to be seen, but according to Lawrence Journal World sports editor and columnist Tom Keegan the table is set for Self’s KU basketball team to to go – you know – all-the-way in 2016.

Or something like that.

In his column, “Kansas Hoops Could be Killer by ’15,” Keegan sketches out a scenario in which, “the hidden beauty of Bill Self’s latest blockbuster recruiting class, separates it from most elite ones…It’s conceivable that every key Kansas player from the 2014-2015 season could return the following season…” Continue reading →

Talk about an anachronism…

Former KMBC TV kiddie show host Torey Southwick is alive and kicking…still.

At the ripe, young age of 84 – I figured Southwick just about had to be about 10 years older – the Detroit native who hit it big with local Boomers hosting the cartoon show Torey Time in the 1960s, is back in Michigan where he reached a huge milestone March 18th:

“I was surprised by all the birthday wishes I received today,” Southwick posted on Facebook. “I started to answer them, but couldn’t keep up. You are way too kind to this old man. I am now officially older than Ol’ Gus. I really appreciate your good wishes and hope you all have happy birthdays, too!!” Continue reading →

Just spin, baby…

After another month of radio ratings so low that KCPT’s new Triple A format radio baby KTBG (The Bridge) isn’t even showing up in the Nielsen numbers, some folks are scratching their heads – others are making excuses.

One local media buyer put it this way to a client:

“KTBG is not showing up because i think it takes one more month to spool up the numbers.”

Um – “spool up the numbers?” – really?

“That’s a crock,” says a top level local radio exec who asked not to be named. “It doesn’t take that long to get ratings. Not in the world of PPMs (portable people meters). In the world of diaries it used to take six months, but in the PPM world, you know in 60 days if you have something going – whether or not you’ve got a hit or a flop.

“In the PPM world, the meters don’t lie. If people were listening to The Bridge, we’d know it because the ratings would show it.”

                                                                  ******* Continue reading →