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.

September 5, 2020September 5, 2020Martin Haro

Chill

Bay Area! This Labor Day weekend, don’t go all tits out, OK. Chill. Let Wayne Thiebaud’s “Girl with Pink Hat” have all the end-of-summer fun, so that you – so that we all – may be able to visit with her at the SFMOMA, when the museum is finally allowed to reopen. COVID-19’s still very much […]

September 4, 2020May 1, 2021Martin Haro

Postcard from the Tenderloin

And what is wrong with being confident, anyway. Nothing, nada, rien…niente – and don’t you let nobody tell you otherwise. Looking up that Daisaku Ikeda poem now.

September 4, 2020October 19, 2020Martin Haro

#Iclosemyeyes…and I See Capri

#Iclosemyeyes…e siamo tornati a Capri. All I need is the rhythm divine. And now that we’ve been, I know to skip il taxi and take us up on il funiculare to Piazza Umberto I. It’s almost Aperol o’clock, and if we’re on time, then we’ll be right on time to enjoy an afternoon welcome from […]

September 4, 2020Martin Haro

A 2020 Without Basel

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 […]

September 2, 2020Martin Haro

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 […]

September 2, 2020October 19, 2020Martin Haro

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 […]

September 1, 2020Martin Haro

San Francisco, 12.19.19

Activists always start out a party of one. Then we find ourselves together.

August 31, 2020April 12, 2025Martin Haro

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 […]

August 28, 2020August 26, 2020Martin Haro

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 […]

August 26, 2020October 5, 2020Martin Haro

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. […]