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.

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020Martin Haro

Gone Verde

This was such fun, heart-warming news to learn: Hedy Goldsmith, one of the Miami’s most beloved pastry chefs, has taken over Verde, the restaurant at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). I met and interviewed and celebrated the Philadelphia native on numerous occasions during the aughts, when we both lived in the Magic City, for […]

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020Martin Haro

We Need and Are Going to Talk About Aaron Hernandez

I suppose, perhaps, if I still lived in Miami, where I know this name will resonate among people I know and who are actually into football, then I’d be more…excited – I know, I know, that’s hardly the right word – about Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez, which is coming to Netflix in […]

January 6, 2020Martin Haro

Let It Will Be

Another year over. A new one just begun. Say no to war. Let peace will be.

January 3, 2020January 7, 2020Martin Haro

Hot Ticket Alert, #SanFrancisco!

It is gonna be Chappelle o’clock this weekend at The Chapel on Valencia, San Francisco, when, you know him from A Star Is Born, Dave Chappelle, the Emmy-, Grammy-, and 2019 Mark Twain Prize for America Humor-winning writer, producer, and performer takes to the stage for three shows at the venue, all of which were […]

January 3, 2020August 14, 2020Martin Haro

Rogue Scout

Coming this month to Amazon Prime Video is Troop Zero, a 2019 Sundance Film Festival title inspired by Beasts of the Southern Wild screenwriter Lucy Alibar’s 2010 play, Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower. Picture it: Rural, trailer-park-y Georgia, 1977. Christmas Flint, a young girl (Gifted’s Mckenna Grace), wants to enter a national competition […]

January 2, 2020August 14, 2020Martin Haro

She Did That

Coming this spring to Netflix, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer will star as Madam C. J. Walker on Self Made, a four-part period piece based on the biography by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, about the woman, the legend, the philanthropist and sociopolitical activist and, whaddya know (or don’t), America’s first female self-made millionaire. Bet they […]

December 31, 2019Martin Haro

My Wish for 2020

Let’s get upconscious.

December 31, 2019August 10, 2020Martin Haro

The MMXIX Collective

The struggle was real in 2019, yet courage and determination and agency (and a good bit o’ faith) defined the entertainment we could consider and enjoy at the movies or in the stream this year – and, I know…matters will continue to be and, even, get only ever more pressing in 2020. I can either […]

December 23, 2019January 30, 2020Martin Haro

Cory from Seattle

I spotted Cory going through one of those large commercial/residential trash bins and making a mess on the street near a signage shop on Van Ness. Yes, I absolutely thought he was fishing for stuff he could use to steal someone’s identity or som’in’, because that is a thing that totally happens here in San […]

December 18, 2019December 18, 2019Martin Haro

Impeached!

Donald Trump, the 45th (so-called) president of the United States of America, has been impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power and one for obstruction of Congress. This evening, Trump became the third American president to be charged for high crimes and misdemeanors. See? You […]