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 […]
Author: Martin Haro
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, […]
Postcard from Live Earth
I’m so not sorry, but some of us have been jumping at the bit to honor this planet for a while now, OK. One way or another, in our own ways, we learned something, we paid attention to the people who were doing something – speaking up – about it, and we took stock. We […]
Choosing to Carry On
Meanwhile, in the world, all of our lives have changed. Including Eliza Hittman’s. The writer-director of Beach Rats was coming into spring H-O-T-hot with Never Rarely Sometimes Always, an eagerly anticipated eye-opener of a film that was celebrated with a Dramatic Special Jury Prize at January’s Sundance Film Festival – on account of its cinematic neorealism and deftly […]
Sabiduría Susy Díaz
Y mueve la cabeza también. Mueva la cabeza, especialmente en estas épocas de pandemia, o se pone tiesa. Y no te hagas mala sangre cuando veas que hay gente en la calle corriendo o caminando con el perro porque realmente no vale la pena; no los conoces y no sabes cuál será su historia. Estamos viviendo […]
Brava, Madam Mayor!
“Why are we still listening to the president?” And just like that, with that succinct shutdown that doubled as call to think global but act local, Madam Mayor London Breed won yesterday’s effort by any elected official anywhere, IMHO, to drive the City of San Francisco inside and lead us and our communities across the […]
The Social Distancing Playlist
It’s the end of the world as we know it or, at least, it kinda feels like it, sometimes, during this season of self-isolation, during this pandemic moment. So, since we are having to stay in, let’s also go in within ourselves, and let’s keep on doing the 🎧➡️social-distancing thing right, to the Pitbull-d tune […]
Free Your Mind
The rest will follow. So I went out last night. Well, first, I met legendary San Francisco drag queen Heklina during the day and then, later, I went out. For real. But not really. Last summer we went on holiday, to Canada, and for my yesterday, my mind, well…it can take me anywhere in the […]
Connection
We live in a beautiful world, so, if everything and everyone is connected on this big, beautiful Earth that we are lucky to be borrowing, then we must consider whether this novel coronavirus, a.k.a. COVID-19, didn’t simply improve on its known predecessors to adapt to a more hostile environment. I mean, we got melting poles…a […]
I Met Heklina Today!
Well, I e-met her. On the Internet. Because we’re in a pandemic, and we’ve been staying home for a while, alright. Because life as we knew it may be no mo’, OK. Something has ended and yet, something’s begun. Entire world capitals, including San Francisco, are grinding to a halt as more and more communities […]
