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 I come in peace.

November 30, 2021March 7, 2022Martin Haro

The Song of Sirens

Do not call 911: It’s just bombastic director Michael Bay’s new actioner, Ambulance. Set in Los Angeles and starring Yahya Abdul Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal, the thriller (a remake of 2005’s Ambulancen by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen) unfolds during a day in L.A., where three lives collide and change forever. Emmy winner […]

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021Martin Haro

Marin Headlands, 11.22.21

Today was a gay fairy tale. Ever ours.

November 23, 2021January 4, 2022Martin Haro

In the Beginning…

The dinosaurs are going global in 2022. You know Jurassic World: Dominion ain’t titled Jurassic World: Dominion for nothin’. The dinos got out at the end of the last one, after their kingdom fell. And it’s their planet now. Again. Mamoudou Athie joins Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and the original blockbuster trio Sam […]

November 22, 2021Martin Haro

Yo, Bay Area: Ama Sua

Ama sua, Bay Area. There is no difference between a man who steals from the Louis Vuittons at Union Square and a man who complains something, a courtesy around a service, is taking too long (Bah humbug much?). Both are wrong and so last century, thieves of things, of time and good will, of energy. […]

November 22, 2021Martin Haro

The Thing About ‘I Drink Wine’

The thing about Adele’s “I Drink Wine,” a new song in her latest record, 30, is it is the Brunch Song of the 2021-2022s. And I love it. I drink it up Champagne rosé.

November 11, 2021Martin Haro

Here They Come: America’s First Family

Ready or not, here they come: the Ricardos. Written and directed by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin. Starring fellow Oscar winners Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman, Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos is an upcoming Amazon Studios biopic about the real-life man and woman behind the glittering Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, a.k.a. TV’s Lucy and Ricky […]

November 6, 2021November 11, 2021Martin Haro

The Thing About ‘The Morning Show’

The thing about Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell (with Julianna Margulies as a recurring guest star in Season 2), is it’s a show about control. And because it’s a show about a TV morning show set against first, the #MeToo movement, and then, against the aftermath of […]

November 3, 2021November 8, 2021Martin Haro

This Is Our Kingdom

I tried something new tonight: I went to church. Now, I’m not religious, but I am curious and into finally forming an opinion all my own regarding worship. At a church. And Grace Cathedral down the street is Episcopal, and from what I learned watching the Sex and the City on the HBO, that means […]

November 2, 2021November 8, 2021Martin Haro

San Francisco, 10.2.21

Madame X vibes last night at @clubfugazisf for preview show 11 of “#DearSanFrancisco,” a high-flying love letter to the #CitybytheBay by @the7fingers, an awesome international troupe full of stars. @madonna’s “#MadameXTour” was the last show we enjoyed pre-COVID. How appropriate to get back to it with this performance, a celebration of dance, gymnastics, and human […]

November 1, 2021November 12, 2021Martin Haro

Miami Art Week 2021 Is Nigh

Red Dot marks the Spectrum of art fairs in Miami coming up this 2021 season. I…am not entirely sure about my wordplay up above, but back down here, closer to the truth, yeah, it looks and sounds like the party is back on – not that it ever wasn’t – come Baseltimes next month, Miamis. […]