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Hearne: Wizards Poised to Announce Name Change
You read about it here first…
As reported here this past summer, not only will the Kansas City Wizards be moving into fancy new digs next year – as in a world class soccer stadium – they’ll be sporting a new name.
The third in the franchise’s 15 year existence. The Wiz being the first in 1996.
Sources say the club was unable to ink a deal for a corporate naming rights sponsorship deal, a la the New York Red Bulls. Opting instead for an English Premier League-sounding name.
Hearne: Johnson County Sun on Death Row?
You know what they say about furry critters and sinking ships…
So it was last week that Johnson County Sun squire Steve Rose penned his final column as the lone journalistic survivor of the weekly newspaper’s founding family.
After decades at or near the helm of Kansas City’s most affluent suburb’s largest media outlet, Rose announced that his repurchase of one of the company’s publications – most likely the Jewish Chronicle and or other non-Sun pubs– had "allowed the current owners to cancel my column."
Now let’s take a look between those thin lines.
Hearne: Uh, We Made It – Sort Of
Seems like only yesterday I was baiting the unwashed with word of KC Confidential’s bloggy demise…
How Jason Whitlock of me.
Come to think of it, it was a week ago that I foretold of our blog’s going away. I left out the part about the Lazarus Project – our second coming – wherein our 20-month-old media experiment would rise from those same ashes to become the long-promised Web site.
Did I tell you there’d be a few bugs? Perhaps I underplayed that a bit.
First and foremost, a moment of silence please for our former comments section. That free-wheeling snakepit of – to borrow from columnist Art Brisbane – of stunning personalities and typographical errors.
But fear not, they’re coming back…
Hearne: Jack in the Sack Storms KCK With More on the Way
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Once upon a time I was a geeky, longhaired college kid in the wilds of Arizona…
Tucson, to be exact.
And never having so much as having darkened the door of a McDonald‘s – Winstead‘s being my burger joint of choice – I ventured into a fast food eatery just off campus at Speedway and University called Jack in the Box.
Or as it was fairly widely referred to by my peers, Jack in the Sack.
From that fateful day forth, the smiling clown head ruled.
Hearne: The Sad, Awful Truth About the Embarrassing 3-D Sunday Star
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In one of the most underwhelming major media promotions in recent memory the Kansas City Star unleashed a 3-D edition of the newspaper on Halloween…
How bad was it? Pretty bad.
“I felt sorry for them,” says KC Confidential movie man Jack Poessiger. “I was kind of embarrassed for the whole thing because it was 1950s technology – I mean, ‘House of Wax’ (1953) used those red and blue glasses. And ironically there was an insert ad in the Star that day from Nebraska Furniture Mart selling real 3-D glasses.”
Current day 3-D movies no longer employ the red and cyan colored glasses designed for black and white movies.
The preferred 3-D glasses methodology used by moviemakers today utilizes polarized lenses.
For good reason...
