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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.
March 5, 2019October 20, 2020Martin Haro

#SpareaLittleChange, #SanFrancisco

There is a man, a seemingly homeless man (quite likely a drug user, but not a junkie), who sits out on the corner of where we live out here in the middle of San Francisco and who, without fail, almost always (no joke, I’m talkin’ pretty much every afternoon for the past four years) asks […]

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March 5, 2019October 19, 2020Martin Haro

Mind Yo’ Butts!

Butts, butts, butts everywhere. Look at this one, look at that one, and at that one. People. Smokers, I do mean smokers. Smokers. If you are lucky to get your hands on some butts, the least you can do is honor dem butts by properly dispensing with ’em butts when you are done with dem […]

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February 24, 2019January 6, 2020Martin Haro

2.Oscar.19

Nothing to say. Good show. Remove the ego, everything gets a little clearer. A show is a show. And this show used to be the show. Back when we didn’t jump to a reaction that could be massively shared, we’d roll our eyes and turn to the person next to us to ask if something […]

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February 23, 2019January 6, 2020Martin Haro

TreasureFest Postcard

It was a day to bundle up and head out to Treasure Island to get bomboloni from Mister Bomboloni, San Franciscos. See. It’s not all doom and gloom over here…. Couldn’t make it today, San Franciscos? Then, head out to get bomboloni from Mister Bomboloni tomorrow, hostless-Oscars Sunday, and pick up some treats for dem […]

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February 22, 2019January 6, 2020Martin Haro

Get Hooked

The Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival – a bacchanalia I attended pretty much every winter when I lived in Miami Beach – is now in full swing, with more than 100 events on schedule for its 18th annual edition as one of the Magic City’s premier fundraising efforts benefiting […]

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February 16, 2019February 22, 2019Martin Haro

Los Grammys!

I have decided I don’t care what anybody has to say or for the jabs some have taken: Jennifer Lopez was asked to bring something to last Sunday’s Grammy Awards, the 61st annual, and Jennifer Lopez did that: She brought it. And, then, the shoulding began. Hey! Carrie Bradshaw warned us against shoulding. It is […]

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February 16, 2019January 6, 2020Martin Haro

San Francisco 1.18.19

How lucky am I, to have seen two James Rosenquists, two months apart, on two different coasts. It’s the American Dream. Now, I’m not sure about “Women’s Intuition (After Aspen),” which caught my eye at the Pérez Art Museum Miami during #MiamiArtWeek2018, but I can tell you that the fantastic “Leaky Ride for Dr. Leakey,” currently […]

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February 1, 2019September 11, 2020Martin Haro

The Race Is On

Now that that’s all behind us – the new year! that really weird (when you think about it) #TrumpShutdown due to that racist, capricious, unnecessary wall of a campaign promise that shall go on unkept because it is all an expensive absurdity! whatever the controversy du jour! – I propose that “What’s your end game?” soon […]

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January 13, 2019February 11, 2019Martin Haro

The Denim Diaries 4

Electricity needn’t be a privilege for which anyone should pay out the nose. At this point in history, I’m happy to pay a nominal fee, along with everybody else (big businesses ought to pay according to size), for something that the powers that be have made necessary. For billions of people. And where there still […]

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January 4, 2019September 16, 2020Martin Haro

The Hartbreak3rs Collective

Heartbreakers is on, you guys. Talk about a pre-9/11 movie – a comedy, no less – that’s held up good. It is so good. Jennifer Love Hewitt is riding her first big wave. OMG, she was on the cover of the first Teen People three years prior – she was the wave! Two years after Galaxy Quest, […]

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