Today #SanFrancisco woke up to news reports that some 120 members of the @sffdpio responded to a pre-dawn four-alarm warehouse fire on #Pier45, a hop and a skip to the right of where I took this pic yesterday. No injuries had been reported as of this writing. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from […]
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.
The Denim Diaries 8
M: “What a fun day. “Playlists like a 🎧➡️Wednesday…on a Sunday.” K: “It’s Saturday.” M: “Exactly. Faz gostoso.”
#ApoyemosJuntosPe
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 […]
Hot Centurian Summer
They are skilled beyond humanly possible. Secretive. Into privacy and anonymity. They are a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die, men and women who have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries, OK. They are The Old Guard, and they are led by Oscar winner Charlize Theron, and they […]
Pandemic Peeps: Aurora Dominguez
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 […]
Postal del Castro
No es más que un hasta luego, no es más que un breve adiós…. Cuídense. Nos vemos pronto. XO ✌🏽
The Thing About Bad Bunny
It was so good to see and hear Bad Bunny encourage the Class of 2020 this evening. Twenty-five years ago I would go to my French school every day, then, after class and stuff at home, I’d watch a ton of American TV. The same shows y’all probably watched back then. It helped me pick up […]
If They Count You
They cannot deny you. Oh, they will try. But you will know, and you will have done your part. Go ahead and do you part, respond to the 2020 U.S. Census. We all got time now. It really is super-easy, and it won’t take forever. Ten minutes; maybe, 15. And it’s all about you, so […]
The First Criterion Collective
Time. We used to bitch and moan about not having enough of it. Now some of us are complainin’ that we have too much of it on our hands. Humanity is never happy. Good thing we have this thing called The Criterion Channel, f.n.a. FilmStruck, to keep us busy and stimulated and enchanted by the […]
Hit It
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 […]
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