Maite Salazar
Music ReviewerMaite Salazar is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and author of three published books. They founded and run La Resistencia Press, dedicated to publishing BIPOC voices. Recognized with two Emmys for their work on Queer Eye, Salazar also has an extensive television and film background. They can be contacted at mgswrites@gmail.com, and their work can be found at laresistenciapress.com.
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Lola Loquacious slides up through the audience, sashaying a multi-colored pastel tulle skirt as she stops at a few lucky spectators to seductively pull…
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The hulking, richly ornate Vaile Mansion, designed by famed architect Asa Beebe Cross, sits alone on a postage stamp of its former grounds in a mostly…
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It’s a Saturday night at Davey’s Uptown, and a white sheet is tacked on the north wall, catty-corner to the stage, a makeshift projection screen. The…
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If things had gone differently over the last two decades, the hulking old brick building near the 18th Street exit off of Interstate 70 in Kansas City,…
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Humans tend to take time and space as a given. We are assured that in 60 seconds, a minute will have passed; after 59 more it will have been an hour. We…
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When Molly Hammer takes the stage in front of people who haven’t seen her, their first reaction may be curiosity.Hammer is small, with a shock of bright…
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MbirdMercyFlightMegan Birdsall has long been a Kansas City jazz darling, her slight presence a contradiction to the voice that's filled the corners of…
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The Sexy AccidentChampagne BabycakesJesse Kates is a coordinated guy. The front-man and creator of The Sexy Accident has been at it for a decade,…
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Jorge Arana TrioMammoth (Haymaker Records)The Jorge Arana Trio, an instrumental, avant-garde art-rock band, seems to have composed the soundtrack to a…
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Heidi Lynne GluckPony Show (Lotuspool)A particular fascination of mine is the ancient Catholic practice of preserving saints' bones in stunningly…