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 27, 2022February 2, 2022Martin Haro

Postcard from SFO, 8.27.20

Thinking about air travel during a pandemic becomes clearer when you’re doing air travel during a pandemic. There I was last week, honey, sitting in First, which never happens (just the once…and the one way this first once, for that matter, OK). What – if you had the option these pandemic times, you, too, would […]

January 25, 2022March 7, 2022Martin Haro

El Show Must Love On

Una rom-com, para Valentimes? Yes, please! La primera dama del BFE, Jennifer Lopez, regresa a la pantalla grande este febrero con Marry Me, una nueva comedia romántica en la que se reúne con Owen Wilson, su co-estrella en Anaconda. Btw, la película dirigida por Kat Coiro y producida por La Lopez con su equipo de […]

December 31, 2021February 3, 2022Martin Haro

My Wish for 2022

Let’s get real. We have taken the temperature of the room (I have taken the temperature of the room). We know what is up. There is much to do. Change the station, change the channel.

December 24, 2021April 22, 2022Martin Haro

San Francisco, 12.24.21

So I went to Neiman Marcus on a literal double-speed shopping spree. The all-seeing eye was watching tonight. We are all watching. And judging. And waiting. For all to justify our love. It must be exhausting. It is exhausting. It is tiresome. It is boring. We are, indeed, here not to be popular but to […]

December 16, 2021February 2, 2022Martin Haro

Everybody Knows the Damn Truth

Lots of #SanFrancisco peoples and unfortunately many, many visitors seem to be concerned with, by the recent theft of Louis Vuitton goods from the luxury brand’s Union Square shop (not to discount the magnitude and lamentable impact of the organized crime behind this and similar thieving operations in the Bay Area of late). Lotsa pearl-clutching […]

December 15, 2021December 25, 2021Martin Haro

Wet, Wet, Wet

Atmospheric rivers are the new Karl the Fog. But with a soupçon of doom. The wind blows so hard as the rain falls on the City by the Bay, a Star Spangled Banner dances down the hill almost flat to the see. The day after tomorrow is here.

December 13, 2021January 4, 2022Martin Haro

To the Moon, To the Moon

BRB, off to watch Halle Berry’s Bruised on Netflix, but first, let’s watch the first five minutes of Halle Berry’s upcoming Moonfall. Already then. This looks like it could be fun up on IMAX. I’m down. Cheers to the movies. Cheers to being able to go to the movies. Moonfall is scheduled to open on […]

November 30, 2021March 7, 2022Martin Haro

The Song of Sirens

Do not call 911: It’s just bombastic director Michael Bay’s new actioner, Ambulance. Set in Los Angeles and starring Yahya Abdul Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal, the thriller (a remake of 2005’s Ambulancen by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen) unfolds during a day in L.A., where three lives collide and change forever. Emmy winner […]

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021Martin Haro

Marin Headlands, 11.22.21

Today was a gay fairy tale. Ever ours.

November 23, 2021January 4, 2022Martin Haro

In the Beginning…

The dinosaurs are going global in 2022. You know Jurassic World: Dominion ain’t titled Jurassic World: Dominion for nothin’. The dinos got out at the end of the last one, after their kingdom fell. And it’s their planet now. Again. Mamoudou Athie joins Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and the original blockbuster trio Sam […]