Aw, Miami. Now you know it’s really, really serious. (I’m kidding. You’ve known it’s serious. Right? Get it and keep it together, already – you know what to do.) Basel has been cancelled! Indeed, for the first time since its post-9/11, tourism-revitalizing and scene-revolutionizing inception in 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach is a no-go this […]
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 started 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.
Further Unsolicited Advice for the Kids
For the kids, again. Slow down. Slow. The fuck. Way. Fucking. Down. Meditate. There is no one way to meditate, so figure out what works for you and do it. It’s a fun time in your late teens and your twenties, I know, but you might wanna slow down, especially now, so you don’t burn […]
A Comment Re: Nancy Pelosi’s Blowout
Nancy Pelosi went to a hair salon on Monday in Cow Hollow here in San Francisco, and now the Trumpists are foaming at the mouth with what I presume is some kind of glee (these folks are in desperate need of new, healthier hobbies). Whatever. Not like she grabbed some pussy on the way there […]
San Francisco, 12.19.19
Activists always start out a party of one. Then we find ourselves together.
We Must Adapt
For the past month, we have had some weather up here in Northern California. The smoke plus the fog in the Bay Area has been a realness. It is not pleasant. I am beyond-grateful to be safely sheltered with my family, and to want for almost nothing. I understand Cal Fire has dubbed the Northern […]
The Re-Invented Artiste
Coming soon, to Netflix…. I’m pretty sure this was always gonna be the case, though, so, yeah…coming soon, to Netflix, indeed – and in lush black and white 35mm, no less – is Radha Blank’s hot Sundance 2020 title, The Forty-Year-Old Version. Starring, written, and directed by virtual newcomer Blank (a producer of Netflix’s TV-series […]
They’ve Got Fun and Games
The Blumhouse is taking over opening on Amazon Prime Video this Halloween season. Welcome to the Blumhouse is a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. Each film showcases a distinctive vision and perspective on common themes centered around family and love as redemptive or destructive forces. […]
Streaming Queens
Leave it to Ryan Murphy to make this happen (and to make it happen right). Because the times have changed, hunty. Yes, they have. A not a moment too soon. More than 50 years after the late Mart Crowley’s 1968 Off-Broadway play, The Boys In the Band, became an unexpected smash hit for unapologetically putting […]
L.A., 11.16.19
The writing is on the wall. It has been on the wall. And everybody knows the damn truth: We can and we need to get it together and do better. Earth is not our bitch.
This Is Them
This is them. This is their time. And the kids are driving us back to the theater experience, too. Fresh off a pre-, during, and post-COVID-19 award-winning trek up the 2020 film-festival circuit, the documentary Us Kids is ready for ya. Catch it at the drive-in, when it visits your city for a very special […]
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