Sheriff is this older gentleman that we’ve witnessed live a quiet, mostly solitary life at Elm & Van Ness, near the San Francisco Cooking School, for five years now. Next to the old McDonald’s – that’s been his spot this past half decade, and who really knows how long he actually has been out there, […]
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 Only Susan This Court Shall Recognize
Thank goodness for Sean Hayes. Always good for a pivot. The Emmy winner has co-written his next starring role in a new comedy titled Lazy Susan, a slice of life about a woman on the edge with nowhere to go but over. Ha! ’Cause you can either break down or break through. I tell ya, […]
This Sign Applies to You, #SanFrancisco
Any more obvious, floral for spring. Get it together, #SanFrancisco. Keep everyone safe out there. Do your part! 👊🏽✌🏽
Drive Like You Care, #SanFrancisco
It is incredible, and unshakable, how a simple, yet thoroughly preventable traffic impasse can spiral out of control between two people too stubborn to let it go and too committed to keep it goin’, even when they find themselves heading in the same direction and keeping ridikolous pace with each other. And how it can […]
MIAMI 2.20 Playlist Time
America got sold out again yesterday, but there’s a football game on Sunday, and gosh darn golly by golly if America isn’t gonna just pretend like nothing’s wrong. Again: Best way to get out of an aggro moment? Think of a happier one. And vote – and support Amy McGrath in her quest to rid Kentucky, […]
La Genteficación Será Transmitida
De estreno en Netflix en febrero – tal vez para llenar el vacío que dejó One Day at a Time, pero definitivamente para representar a La Raza – está Gentefied, una comedia dramática creada por Marvin Lemus y Linda Yvette Chávez, dos escritores chicanos de primera generación, que sirve como una carta de amor bilingüe […]
SFO>MIA
The San Francisco 49ers are headed to Miami to face the Kansas City Chiefs come Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, Feb. 2 – featuring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at the halftime mark – and that means you the Faithful are, too. You’re gonna need a place to sleep in the Magic City, and you’re also gonna […]
The Joaquin Phoenix Moment
He’s won the Globe. He’s won the SAG. He’s probably gonna win the Best Actor Oscar for Joker, too. Not bad for a guy who, not a decade ago, had quit acting to focus on a rapping career, of all things, while sporting black sunglasses on a full face o’ scraggly beard and wearing $3,000-dollar […]
A Postcard from the Castro, Honey
What a great night for the cast of The King of Comedy. Robert De Niro received the 2019 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Award down in L.A., while SF Sketchfest saluted Sandra Bernard and her career in comedy, in situ at the Castro Theatre here in San Francisco, before a special screening of the 1982 Martin Scorsese film, in […]
Royal Fave for $1200
You can get donuts and meet your neighbors and watch “Jeopardy!” on a Saturday evening here. (Or get donuts on a cold, rainy day…. But not on Tuesdays!) What is Bob’s Donuts?
King of Cups 