KC Confidential

For the record, Craig Glazer is not buying KC Confidential…

For many of you, last week’s April Fools prank – announcing that the local comedy club main man was taking over KCC starting today – was exactly what it appeared to be, a joke.

However, in order to make it seem more believable, we opted not to set the record straight.

Until now.

So for those of you who figured it out, congrats. For the rest of you, don’t feel bad, you’re far from alone and in excellent company.

“It’s funny, Tony was worried,” Glazer says. “He emailed me because I hadn’t written anything all week and said, “It’s not true, is it?’ So I went ahead and sent him a story and he was all relieved.” Continue reading →

Think of it as a moral dilemma…

With sellouts mounting by the week, the sky’s the limit it would appear for Sporting Kansas City. The soccer club has become the model of what a successful professional sports franchise in Kansas City should look like.

Oh sure, recently dethroned AEG honcho Tim Leiweke‘s Comets indoor soccer club attained the veneer of success in the 1980s. But it was smoke and mirrors, accomplished by “papering” Kemper Arena with free promotional tickets then declaring the team a success. Local media played along and Leiweke pyramided the mirage into a seven-figure income and a powerful position in the entertainment industry.

Sporting’s ticket sales however are real. Continue reading →

Once upon a time they were free…

Krispy Kreme was a kindly company that treated your kids to a hot-off-the-assembly-line fresh, hot, free doughnut. You didn’t even have to ask or buy anything, just happen by when doughnuts were being made and let the good times roll.

Then somewhere along the line – the economy hit the skids and Krispy Kremes were dropping like flies all around the country – and corporate went Grinch.

No more free doughnuts. Continue reading →

There’s only one small problem with the upcoming AEG Live Auction for Autism Speaks and it’s really not a problem at all…

Midland by AMC lead organizer Candy Chorice – a veteran of many Sandstone Auctions past –  is bringing the event back after a several year absence. Sans the Sandstone name. And it will go down at the Midland as opposed to the now defunct Beaumont Club in Westport. Continue reading →

Remember that wive’s tale about bad things coming in threes?

Let’s do an audit…there’s Walt Bodine dying, the KC Strip trolley going bye-bye, (don’t think I’ve forgotten about the letting you guys in on the racist situation that lead to the Strip’s getting its ticket punched by the Power & Light District) and today’s news about former KC mayor Charles Wheeler and his wife getting bounced from their $600,000-plus mansion for being two years behind on their (reverse) mortgage payments. Continue reading →

Royals baseball, dollar hotdogs, Halter Top Day…

So goes the natural order of things in the wide world of summer sporting events Kansas City Style. Except that the latter of the three – Halter Top Day – won’t be returning to The K this year, according to Royals spokesman Toby Cook.

“No halter tops,” Cook emailed this past week. “Rats.” Continue reading →

I know, I know, it’s early…

Still there’s something eerily familiar about the Kansas City Royals being in last place again already.

Don’t get me wrong; I know that the conventional wisdom is this is the team’s year. Finally. It’s just that it’s too good of an excuse as a segue into some non-baseball baseball talk.

Baseball fashion, to be exact. Continue reading →

Round and round and round they go and…

Who the heck knows why KC Mayor Sly James son Kyle is doing 30 days under the sanction of the Johnson County Department of Corrections. It’s certainly not at all clear in a story filed last week by Kansas City Star reporter Tony Rizzo.

This just in…

After more than four years, thousands of columns and tens of thousands of comments, I have agreed to sell KC Confidential to Craig Glazer of Stanford & Sons. Continue reading →