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New Jack City: BMW—Guilt By Association?
Pray tell what the car brand Bavarian Motor Works had to do with the slayings? Yet the cables news shows had a field day reminding everyone that Elliott Rodger carried out his acts in a BMW..
Starbeams: Jack Henry, KCPD Madness, The UN, Gas & Kim and Kanye
Jack Henry is closing its doors on the Plaza after 83 years of dressing Kansas Citians. Eighty-three years is quite a run. A lot of us can remember when Jack Henry was the weatherman on WDAF. Or was that Dan Harry? I can’t even remember what I did on MEMORIAL DAY. *******
Wade Williams: A Salute to Cinetopia & “Movie Eat ‘Em Ups’
In the late 1940’s Kansas City and the surrounding suburb towns counted over 80 stand alone movie theaters…
Belton even had one, the Dixie with 300 seats. And they all served food – popcorn and Vess Grape Soda was considered food, back in the day. Show your intelligence, please.
Early theaters served popcorn and drinks from vending machines in the lobby. Some theaters would not allow food to be brought inside. Theatres like the Granada in KCK and the Waldo had a small confectionary shop next door. You could buy popcorn and drinks there thru a small window in the outer lobby. Continue reading
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Leftridge: Craigslist Crap, Memorial Day Edition
Can you believe it’s been a year already? It seems like only yesterday we were all going to the cemetery and paying respect to our fine nation’s departed service people. Well, those of us who actually (*cough*) know what the holiday is about, that is.
To the rest of everyone, it’s merely nothing more than a three-day weekend filled with grilled meat products, social gatherings, gallons of booze and perhaps a trip to a local lake or piss-filled community pool. I’m not saying this is okay, necessarily, but it would be inappropriate to mislead the readers into believing we’re a nation who generally gives a shit about much of anything.
So while you’re busy screaming at lake babes to show their tits, I’ll be sitting somberly in a graveyard thinking about the single dead veteran I know.
But if you’re hell-bent on hedonism, it’s not my business to hold you back. Continue reading
Starbeams: The George Brett Diet, Rep Convention Update & Most Wanted
Now that I’ve legally changed my name to George Brett, I can get a restaurant reservation anywhere!
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Kansas City is still in the running to host the Republican National Convention. We are up against Dallas, Cleveland and Denver. If we win, I want to be the guy who reads the delegate count from each state that nobody pays attention to. I’m well trained at being ignored.
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Glazer: Scribe Calls Out Royals as World Class Losers
I’ve spent a lot of time talking about how the Kansas City Chiefs have been a failed organization for the last half century…
Now it’s time to talk about our other professional franchise, the Kansas City Royals. Another failed organization, located right here in Kansas City.
Older Royals fans can remember the good old days with George Brett and company. From 1975 to 1985 our Kansas City Royals were an outstanding young ball club. While that decade is often referred to as the Brett Era, it was also the Ewing Kauffman era.
Royals owner Kauffman was a billionaire went there weren’t very many of them around like there are today. And he was deeply involved in trying to make Kansas City a winner. Which he did. The Royals played in two World Series – 1980 and 1985 – and like the Chiefs were able to win in their second appearance. Our Chiefs would appear in the first Super Bowl and win a World Championship in 1970 in their second Super Bowl.
Both franchises have suffered the same fate since those World Championship seasons.
They suck. Continue reading
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Donnelly: Packing Up For Arkansas ‘Best Thing to Happen to Wakarusa,’ Promoter Says
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It seems like only yesterday we were reporting on hidden cameras in trees, tactical squads barreling through campgrounds on ATVs, roadblocks, and unconstitutional searches and seizures at the then relatively young Wakarusa Festival at Clinton Lake State Park on the western outskirts of Lawrence.
Those were the days, weren’t they folks?
Following Kansas’ crazy crackdown on the fest, owner Brett Mosiman decided he’d had enough. Really, what other option did he have? Kansas drew a stupid line in the sand, forgoing the millions of dollars in revenue that Wakarusa brought to the state, not only through usage fees and the like, but also through sales tax on the food, gas, booze, and other items that the 20,000 odd attendees purchased in or around Lawrence.
All to bust a few dozen hippies. Dumb. Continue reading
Hearne: KU Scribe Says 2016 Could Be The Big One — Self’s Last?
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
Hearne: Iconic Former KMBC TV Personality Torey Southwick Races Past Ol’ Gus
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
Jack Goes Confidential: Adam Sandler in ‘Blended’ Vortex
How do studios tweak their release schedules around a potential juggernaut?
They counter program by reaching out with film fare least competitive to the tentpole opening that weekend in the market place.
Or else they stay away from the date altogether.
The box office-strong, Memorial Day Weekend is an annual case in point.
Two years ago MEN IN BLACK returned and pretty well had the holiday weekend to itself.
Last Memorial weekend the battlefield pitted FAST & FURIOUS 6 against THE HANGOVER III and the second week of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS.
So how is 2014 faring? Continue reading
Hearne: Dissecting April’s Radio Ratings; The Buzz, Bridge & Alice’s Ghost
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.”
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New Jack City: Holy Cow–Priests Gone Wild
We’ve all heard the lurid stories of Catholic priests with, you know, problems. And a good number of those even hit close to area parishes and went far beyond the rounds of confessions.
However an ad May 15 in USA TODAY’s Money section really brought it all home.
The three column by four and one-half inch display ad ran in the paper’s Marketplace Today sub-section, a section usually reserved for paid legal notices such as advisories and/or searches for potential individuals in pending class action lawsuits.
If this sexual abuse claim/Chapter 11 ad doesn’t blow Papal minds nothing will.
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Hearne: More Problems @ The Pitch — Main Phone Lines Down
When sorrows come, they bear not single spies…
Murphy’s Law or a sign of tough times? You make the call. A month or two back the URL for Pitch.com was listed for sale by Go Daddy. False alarm – just a fluke – publisher Joel Hornbostel assured. Somebody screwed up on the renewal and the alt weekly had to get a new credit card to the pub’s provider to protect its domain.
No harm, no foul. Continue reading
Donnelly: Depleted Sporting Squad Fights Like Champions but Falls 2-1 at Chicago
With Matt Besler and Graham Zusi out with the national team for the upcoming World Cup, Sunday’s lineup at the Chicago Fire was already going to look a bit different.
But then down went Aurelien Collin with a hamstring issue. Lawrence Olum got called up to play for Kenya. And Ike Opara is out for the season with an injury.
Since every other option at center back was ruled out, that meant that 17 year old KC native, Erik Palmer-Brown, would be making his professional debut earlier than expected. Despite his youth, EPB held his own physically fairly well. But he conceded a penalty kick in the first half, and picked up a second yellow card early in the second half forcing Sporting KC to play shorthanded for the rest of the afternoon. Continue reading