Revolution was in the air in 2018, and it showed at the movies. Three years into one of the most troubling, depressing, aggroying periods I have seen the United States of America endure and put itself through (been here almost 20 years, folks – let’s get it the fuck back together), filmmakers, in turn, continued to […]
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.
Thinking Caps On!
This is a cap. A blue cap from a plastic bottle of water. A cap carelessly – no second thought (heck, I bet not a thought, indeed) – discarded on Van Ness Avenue last night for…the world to handle. For someone else to sweep off the street. Or pick up. Who knows. Point is, people, […]
Playlist Tre
Listen. For Christmas. Some Christmas country. Listen. Listen. Are you listening? 🎧➡️ ’Tis the season, after all. Enjoy. Babe Bad Blood Bad Blood Freedom Christmas Lights Everglow (Live in Buenos Aires) Best Life MotorSport Pills N Potions Right Thru Me Sir Be Careful Santa Baby Children (Dream Version Special Radio Edit)
The Denim Diaries III
What a treat not to wear shoes.
NADA Is Everything
#MiamiArtWeek has been real. Miami, Miami Beach, South Beach…they all may be growing, evolving, challenging one another, as well as the environments surrounding them, not to mention its thousands of locals and visitors alike, but some things will never change. The future is nigh, though. Nah, the future is here, and thanks to the non-profit New […]
Standard Postcard
I think I want to call this, “Man on Dock.”
PPR Art
What…a find. There may be more than one private posh residence (PPR) on South Beach, but not every PPR has some fresh, graffiti art on one of its walls. This untitled piece finished last spring by visual artist Eddy ReMeMBeR can be found at what I am dubbing Casa Fischer, the home of Charlie Fischer, […]
Postcard from PAMM
“It’s everyone’s museum.” So said Darlene Pérez, one half of the Miami power couple behind the leading Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), earlier today, when I ran into my fellow Florida International University Panther in the vestibule of the downtown museum. I had spent a bit o’ the morning checking out the comprehensive documentary exhibition of “Surrounded Islands,” […]
Miami, 12.7.18
Much like Sarah Jessica Parker in 1995’s Miami Rhapsody, I look at Miami these days, and talk about how much it’s changed, and you know, how it’s always hot and how it’s always stormy, and how it’s, you know, how it’s occasionally a little dangerous…but you know…. Really, if it’s really so awful, why is […]
He Got That Bass
This is my friend, the New York City-based architect David Gauld. David steered the recent renovation and expansion of The Bass, a Miami Beach Art Deco landmark museum that opened on South Beach in 1964 that I quite seldom visited during the time that I lived in South Florida. What can I say other than, […]
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