Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Hearne: Jason Whitlock Follows in Kevin Kietzman Footsteps
I had a few distractions this past winter… Moving back to Tucson, buying and outfitting a new house, embarking on a new marriage, then getting a bad case of COVID and hosting a house fire – to name just a … Continue reading
Hearne: KC Based AMC Theaters Hanging In There…For Now
I’ve been bearish on movie theaters for like ever… That said, I’ve always been a big movie fan, pretty much from childhood. On top off which, for years while running the Pitch, writing for the Kansas City Star, KC Confidential and The … Continue reading
Hearne: Good News for KC’s Struggling Alt Weekly?
Still hiding out in Az near my high school and University of Arizona past… And while I’ve compared, to an extent, the Arizona Daily Star and Kansas City Star newspapers, leave us not forget about those passengers still aboard KC’s alt weekly Titanic, The Pitch. You know, … Continue reading
Hearne: A Tale of Two Cities – Arizona Star vs. Kansas City Star
I still can’t quite believe it… After like six months of failed efforts, I finally landed a print subscription to the Arizona Daily Star about a week ago. Trust me, it wasn’t easy, but I was happy to pay full boat, … Continue reading
Hearne: What Did I (Just) Tell You, Chiefs Fans?
KC’s beleaguered newspaper is getting scooped so badly by the national media that… It has had to fall back on its raison d’être to get a Chiefs story out that hadn’t been both pre-scooped by national media. So it settled … Continue reading
Hearne: Life After Kansas City
They say you can’t go back… So what am I doing here in the desert reliving my lost youth? Good question. We only go around once (theoretically) and while I’ve built more than my fair share of snowmen and snowballs … Continue reading
Hearne: Guess Who’s Back…?
Long time, no see… If that sounds trite, allow me to add that since right before November’s election until present, I’ve kind of been busy. As in three long distance moving trips from Kansas City to Oro Valley, Arizona in … Continue reading
Hearne: How Barbara Bollier Put the Screws to Dwight Sutherland
Now it can be told… It ain’t easy being a conservative, registered Republican in Johnson County these days – let alone in Mission Hills. Not when what’s left of those so-called Republicans of yesteryear quietly morphed into Rhinos (Republicans in … Continue reading
Hearne: Guess what? I’m Leaving KC
Sorry about the past few weeks… I’ve got a number of pretty interesting columns brewing, but – just so you’ll know – I got married in late June, sold my house in Dear Old Brookside a few weeks back, and … Continue reading
Hearne: Back to the Movies w/ ‘TENET’ + Star Editor Mike Fannin
Let’s see, do I embarrass myself or… Oh, what the heck. After all, slime ball Kansas City Star editor Mike Fannin didn’t mind laying down a phony “tear jerker” about how his mom came to visit and the whole family … Continue reading
Hearne: AMC Scrambles To Survive Monumental Losses
Two billion here, five-hundred million there – it adds up… The financial toll the coronavirus is taking on Kansas City’s AMC Theatres is staggering, but the company may be beginning to see some light at a seemingly never-ending, gloomy tunnel … Continue reading
Hearne: Sports Talker Kevin Kietzman Poised for Comeback
This just in… Kansas City’s prominent sports personality the past 20-plus years – Kevin Kietzman – has settled his issues with Sports Radio WHB – the station he all but singlehandedly put on the map – and will announce his return … Continue reading
Hearne: Anatomy Of An Embattled Kansas City Police Chief
Hard to argue that we’re living in an Alice in Wonderland, through-the-looking glass world… That following the death of George Floyd, the country has climbed through a mirror where – like a reflection – everything is reversed…including logic. Sound familiar? No? You must not … Continue reading
Hearne: July Movie Theater Openings in Doubt
Things are looking pretty shaky again in the movie biz… How shaky? “I still don’t think the movie theaters are going to open up at the end of this month as planned the way the virus is going now,” says … Continue reading
Hearne: Star Subscribers ‘Horrified’ By Bogus Police Chief ‘Hit Piece’
How much longer will the powers that be at what’s left of the once vaunted Kansas City Star put up with lame, over-the-top editorials and biased reporting? If that sounds like a mouthful, trust me it is. The once-thoughtful, local news … Continue reading
Hearne: Kansas City Star Braces for New Owner Tribulations
Hard to imagine things getting much worse at the Kansas City Star… Then again, between coronavirus, bankruptcy, declining readership and revenue, an over-the-hill readership, and finally, a new hedge fund owner almost certain to lay waste to what’s left of … Continue reading
Hearne: Is Lawrence Journal World On Its Last Legs?
The jury’s out… Can so-called newspapers survive on internet advertising alone? That’s question is looming larger by the day, especially as organizations like the Lawrence Journal World and Kansas City Star approach the point of no return as paid print … Continue reading
Hearne: Ex Journal World Sports Editor Takes Bullet in Boston
It’s not easy being a print journalist…. Not these days and not that anybody much is grieving for them, given the quality of what passes for reporting in the current idiom. So it comes as little surprise that not two … Continue reading
Hearne: ‘Notorious Madame Red’ On Canceling 2020 Ren Fest
Skin tight corsets and bodices aside, it ain’t easy being a sexy wench these days… Take Denise Groason – aka Renaissance Festival’s Notorious Madame Red – who is sitting out this year’s, whether it goes down or not. “If the … Continue reading
Hearne: Speaking of Sports…KU, T-Bones Make ‘Fake News’
A pair of riveting announcements, certain to thrill sports-mined types… First, the Kansas City T-Bones “baseball team” will not be playing the 2020 season. Shocker. Frankly, it would have been a bigger surprise if they announced they would play. Indeed, … Continue reading