For April 21st, 2003
Kara Mae
Hailing from the city where Edgar Allan Poe left this world and John Waters entered, Baltimore native Kara Mae is a high-spirited cross between a glitzy Jazz Age flapper girl and an in-your-face punk rock hellraiser. She's equally comfortable spending a weekend in a quiet place reading about turn-of-the-last-century Istanbul or guzzling down multiple bottles of Yuengling in the parking lot outside the punk club, smashing stuff.
They know her name in speakeasies all across town, especially The Ottobar and The Talking Head. But when Johnny Law gets wise to her festive (and often shady) antics and she needs to scram from Baltimore for a while, she'll cool her heels with friends in Washington, DC. Eventually, even chumming it up with senators and federal judges on a bender can quickly bore our Kara Mae, and then she loves nothing more than to catch the latest touring burlesque act or one of her favorite bands like Mastodon, The Hot Snakes, The Means, Tradgedy, and The Oxes.
Kara Mae stands tall at 5'9 and proudly declares, "I ALSO LIKE METAL! WAAA-AAHH-AAHH!"
We presume that other such confessions are made regularly to a member of the clergy. Perhaps...a Judas Priest? An Armored Saint? Certainly not a Twisted Sister?
This is the point where we're knocked unconscious by Kara Mae for being poseurs. When we catch up with her at a truck stop between DC and Baltimore, she buys us vegetable soup, but she doesn't apologize. Frankly, we don't blame her.
Kara Mae is currently working on a print magazine called Star & Garter. It'll feature lots of hot punk, retro and glammy damsels, and it'll be the bee's knees, so be on the lookout!
She's got her
own site at karamae.com
where you can catch more of her knockout photo sessions with artists like Carlos
Batts, Ken Marcus,
Ed Fox, and Julie
Strain. There's also a fan
club where you can keep in touch with Kara Mae and other like-minded Kara
Mae fanatics, so go sign up, punk!
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