Don’t go getting any ideas about summer. How ever could we have known, that the spring season’s arrival was on notice 10 weeks and a day ago, when I started to reflect on what I would want to teach the kids – my nieces and nephews – about life, love, liberty, and the pursuit of […]
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.
#Iclosemyeyes…e Sono in Italia
Dearly beloved, #Iclosemyeyes…and we’re back at the train station in Salerno, on our way to celebration in Rome. It’s rainy, and remarkably quiet for a while, but then again, it is middle of the day on a Wednesday. There’s thunder and lightning. It’s almost August, after all. É uno spettacolo italiano d’estate. And I can’t wait […]
The Thing About Our Planet
The thing about our planet, about Earth, is that it’s not only ours. It’s not only for us. As sentient beings, as the smartest species roaming the lands, though, we are the better equipped to manage matters ’round the world – but we own nothing. Animals live here, too. Above us, under us, next to […]
The Thing About L.A.
The thing about L.A. is the first time I visited, everyone was mesmerized, stupefied by Heidi Montag’s recent body renovation. I can still see the blond bad girl from The Hills on the cover of that mid-January 2010 People, showcasing the Housewivestastic results of “10 PROCEDURES IN 1 DAY” as the magazine teased, looking 23, yet […]
The Thing About the Met Gala
The thing about that most well-chronicled of American pop traditions, the Met Gala, or the Met Ball, is I used to write about it on my Movie Martin blog, filing under “Fashion” because, in my estimation, the soirée was and remains a fashion event about fashion. It exists for fashion, in the service of fashion, because of […]
#Iclosemyeyes…and Go to Iguaçu
I wrote “Chasing Waterfalls” for the December 2014 issue of Miami Living. I was living back in Peru for a bit after leaving Miami, when my dad and I took a trip to the breathtaking Iguaçu National Park, which separates Brazil and Argentina. Afterward, I detailed how and why Miamians should follow suit and think […]
But Make It Fashun
Face masks – face coverings like, say, a homemade cloth mask, or an effectively wrapped scarf, or a cleverly fashuned scarf – will be required while out in public moving forward, #San Francisco, starting tonight. (You do not need to fuck with the N95 masks, so don’t hoard those, OK.) I thought face masks already […]
#Iclosemyeyes…
#Iclosemyeyes…and I’m back at the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec (MNBAQ), which we visited last summer and where I focused on “Blues” (1971) by Rita Letendre OC OQ OOnt, the Canadian multimedia artist. Letendre is the 2016 Laureate of the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, the highest distinction awarded to an artist in recognition of […]
Willow
What more is there to say about Willow Street (I’ve said and written it all before), except other than know what I liked the most about Willow Street? Weeping as though it may have been, Willow knew what it was, OK. Always. And everyone around it, los unos y los otros, any who ever was […]
Keep Yo’ Germs to Yourself!
Pandemic or no pandemic, the culture’s gonna do what the culture’s gonna do – good, bad, and fugly. That much is true. But where is the cultural responsibility in America in 2020? Where is the collective that is humanity on Earth at this point in time? Winter was, spring is barely gonna be. Urgh, and, some people, […]
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