Author: Martin Haro

I am cultural writer from Lima, Peru. Now publishing from San Francisco. #KingofCups Y2K didn't happen, but I did move to Florida in the year 2000. Miami was kind of the vibe for me during the '90s, so into the new millennium and the Magic City I went, for college and to find whatever life now could and would be. I graduated from Florida International University, then went to work in its in-house communications/marketing department, as a writer, video producer, and associate editor of "FIU Magazine," the university's flagship alumni publication. By the time I got to work at FIU I'd already been working with and writing for the weekly "Wire Magazine" on the beach and the periodical "Miami Living" magazine, writing my Movie Martin blog, contributing to the occasional "Awful Truth" by Ted Casablanca once upon a time on E! Online. Later, I starter stringing story for "Us Weekly." That was fun. It was all kinds of a heckuva lot of fun. King of Cups is my new empirical, memoiristic non-linear independent writing exercise. (Independent: Rhymes with unpaid, as in this is free, so represent and support, OK. Amplify the shit.) I mince no words, I mean no harm, and it's all mostly a vibe.

January 14, 2020January 16, 2020Martin Haro

Her Feroshcity

I’m loath to bring her up again (no, I really am not), but you know Madame X…ahem…Madonna? She recently got to collaborate with another lady from Miami who’s killing it right now: American DJ/producer Tracy Young. As you may or may not know, Miami’s favorite DJ has a long history with the Queen of Pop, […]

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020Martin Haro

The Pachamoment Playlist

Please, please, please, give peace a chance. The impeached orange hemorrhoid of a president with which we find ourselves stuck at the edge of the end of the world (or democracy – whichever tumbles first, I’m sure, his master would be pleased), is not America. He is not America, and we do not want war. […]

January 9, 2020Martin Haro

The Denim Diaries VII

“At the end of the day,” he said, “no one’s prettier than rent control in San Francisco.”

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020Martin Haro

Join the Coven, #SanFrancisco!

Bay Area! This weekend brings the second annual Coven Film Festival, three days of film, Q&A sessions, and networking opportunities showcasing the work of women and non-binary filmmakers. The festival, which will be held at the landmark Roxie Theater in the Mission Jan. 10-12, recognizes that not everyone is young, white, middle-class, cisgender, or able-bodied. […]

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020Martin Haro

Gone Verde

This was such fun, heart-warming news to learn: Hedy Goldsmith, one of the Miami’s most beloved pastry chefs, has taken over Verde, the restaurant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). I met and interviewed and celebrated the Philadelphia native on numerous occasions during the aughts, when we both lived in the Magic City, for […]

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020Martin Haro

We Need and Are Going to Talk About Aaron Hernandez

I suppose, perhaps, if I still lived in Miami, where I know this name will resonate among people I know and who are actually into football, then I’d be more…excited – I know, I know, that’s hardly the right word – about Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, which is coming to Netflix in […]

January 6, 2020Martin Haro

Let It Will Be

Another year over. A new one just begun. Say no to war. Let peace will be.

January 3, 2020January 7, 2020Martin Haro

Hot Ticket Alert, #SanFrancisco!

It is gonna be Chappelle o’clock this weekend at The Chapel on Valencia, San Francisco, when, you know him from A Star Is Born, Dave Chappelle, the Emmy-, Grammy-, and 2019 Mark Twain Prize for America Humor-winning writer, producer, and performer takes to the stage for three shows at the venue, all of which were […]

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020Martin Haro

Rogue Scout

Coming this month to Amazon Prime Video is Troop Zero, a 2019 Sundance Film Festival title inspired by Beasts of the Southern Wild screenwriter Lucy Alibar’s 2010 play, Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower. Picture it: Rural, trailer-park-y Georgia, 1977. Christmas Flint, a young girl (Gifted’s Mckenna Grace), wants to enter a national competition […]

January 2, 2020January 7, 2020Martin Haro

She Did That

Coming this spring to Netflix, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer will star as Madam C. J. Walker on Self Made, a four-part period piece based on the biography by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, about the woman, the legend, the philanthropist and sociopolitical activist and, whaddya know (or don’t), America’s first female self-made millionaire. Bet they […]