Monique Gabrielle Salazar
Music ReviewerMonique Gabrielle Salazar began her classical music training at the age of three and later branched out into a variety of genres. She has been a member of the Latino Writers Collective since 2008 and has worked as a freelance writer, editor, producer and performer in Kansas City for more than a decade. Her first book of poetry, See My Ghosts, will be published in July 2016 by Spartan Press. Follow her on Twitter, @MGSCreates.
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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… -
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…
