Julia Haile, an Old Fashioned in one hand, sits with her back to the wall at a corner table inside the Majestic. With perfect stillness, she watches the jazz trio onstage a few feet away: trumpeter Hermon Mehari, bassist Karl McComas-Reichl, drummer Marty Morrison. Mehari is a longtime friend, Haile tells me later. The two met at the UMKC Conservatory,…
On June 16, an off-duty Kansas City, Kansas, police officer thought that he recognized someone at the Sprint retail store in Wyandotte County’s Village West development. The officer quickly verified his suspicion: He’d spotted a 35-year-old man with 13 outstanding arrest warrants. When on-duty police arrived to arrest the man, they found in his possession a loaded .38-caliber Grendel pistol…
Not for nothing does Jackson County call this year’s Independence Day event, at Longview Lake (11100 View High Drive, Shelter 13), the Big Bang: Its fireworks display is set to include what officials claim is the nation’s biggest single shell — “so large it could not be assembled elsewhere and then be legally transported for commercial use.” So there’s your…
