As the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a novel and deadly coronavirus that spread out of China during the winter, has us well into Month 3 of a generalized global shutdown, I thought I’d check in on some of the people I’ve met along the way, my community. I’ve lived in three cities across two countries […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a novel and deadly coronavirus that spread out of China during the winter, thrusts us well into Month 3 of a generalized global shutdown, I thought I’d check in on some of the people I’ve met along the way, my community. I’ve lived in three cities across two countries […]
Not a pandemonium. This season of the COVID-19 pandemic, please, remember the Golden Rule.
The thing about TV right now is…there is so much TV right now. Good thing so much of it is so fucking good, and, I guess, 💁🏽♂️good thing that we’re on the other side of the initial worst of a global pandemic…and still taking it easy and staying healthy and out of the fucking way, […]
A group of mes amies franco-péruviennes from high school in Lima, Peru, and in Paris, France, is helping to manage #ApoyemosJuntosPe, an ongoing GoFundMe campaign to raise crucial funds for Peruvian hospitals in need of personal protective equipment (PPE) to fight COVID-19. To support the various Peruvian institutions pleading for PPE during this pandemic moment […]
Coming soon to a movie…experience near you is The High Note, starring two daughters of Hollywood, Emmy nominee and Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Tracee Ellis Ross and Robert Altman Spirit Award winner Dakota Johnson. Helmed by Canadian-American filmmaker Nisha Ganatra, a Golden Globe-winning director of Amazon Prime Video’s Transparent, this looks and […]
Don’t go getting any ideas about summer. How ever could we have known that spring season’s arrival was on notice 10 weeks and a day ago, when I started to reflect on what I would want to teach the kids – my nieces and nephews – about life, love, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. […]
The thing about our planet, about Earth, is that it’s not only ours. It’s not only for us. As sentient beings, as the smartest species roaming the lands, though, we are the better equipped to manage matters ’round the world – but we own nothing. Animals live here, too. Above us, under us, next to […]
The thing about that most well-chronicled of American pop traditions, the Met Gala, or the Met Ball, is I used to write about it on my Movie Martin blog, filing under “Fashion” because, in my estimation, the soirée was and remains a fashion event about fashion. It exists for fashion, in the service of fashion, because of […]
I wrote “Chasing Waterfalls” for the December 2014 issue of Miami Living. I was living back in Peru for a bit after leaving Miami, when my dad and I took a trip to the breathtaking Iguaçu National Park, which separates Brazil and Argentina. Afterward, I detailed how and why Miamians should follow suit and think […]
