Email Author Daniel Hernandez

Awards

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published June 8, 2007

  "The Art Outlaws of East L.A."

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 20, 2006

  "Shades of Brown"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 8, 2006

  "Can't We All Calm Down"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 27, 2006

  "Stirring the Other LA"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published June 14, 2006

  "Fallow Dreams"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published June 8, 2006

  "Pledging the Farm"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 24, 2006

  "A Brown Day in L.A."

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 29, 2006

  "The $10 Million Intevention"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 14, 2006

  "Bushel of Complaints"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 8, 2006

  South Central Farm: "Seeds of Secrecy"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Scene by Scene: Coverage of a Series of Immigrants Rights Marches"

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2006 Stories by Daniel Hernandez

• Shades of Brown

  published December 21, 2006

  Agustin Gurza, a Los Angeles Times staffwriter who covers Latino music and culture, was in the paper’s ground-floor cafeteria last... More >>

• Saved in MacArthur Park

  published November 30, 2006

  MacArthur Park, the city’s immigrant crossroads, is heaven on earth for the Spanish-speaking evangelical street preacher. On Sunday... More >>

• Mayor for Life?

  published November 16, 2006

  A WEEK BEFORE ELECTION DAY, Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn called one of his community town-hall meetings on the ground floor of City... More >>

• Best Downtown News

  published October 5, 2006

  Best Downtown NewsIf you’re worried about the demise of newspapers, look no further than the Los Angeles Garment &... More >>

• Immigration Rites

  published September 21, 2006

  NO ONE EXPECTED A MILLION PEOPLE to show up in Los Angeles for the last “big” immigrant-rights rally a couple weekends ago,... More >>

• The 'Stache

  published August 31, 2006

  Tuesday night at Cha Cha, the insufferably cool new lounge in Silver Lake with the Mexican kitsch decor set at full-strength obnoxious.... More >>

• Remember the Immigrant-Rights Movement?

  published August 24, 2006

  LIKE A PERSECUTED PILGRIM out of the Middle Ages, undocumented immigrant Elvira Arellano is taking the immigrant-rights movement to... More >>

• The Simulated Republic

  published August 17, 2006

  “We will go forward, friends, with firmness and decisiveness. We will triumph. We will save Mexico . . . with whatever it... More >>

• Down and Delirious in Mexico City

  published August 17, 2006

  Party in PolancoI’m sitting on a sleek black leather divan in a Modernist second-story flat in Polanco, a ritzy neighborhood of... More >>

• Cruel Hypnosis

  published August 17, 2006

  Los Super Elegantesat Safari Sam’s, August 12Los Super Elegantes opened their set at Safari Sam’s on Saturday night... More >>

• The Big Stink

  published August 10, 2006

  It’s easily one of the most significantmurals in the world, yet few people have actually seen América Tropical, the... More >>

• Sticking It to El Hombre

  published July 20, 2006

  ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR held another massive rally at Mexico City’s Zocalo main square on Sunday, the third such... More >>

• People Are Pissed

  published July 13, 2006

  MEXICO CITY — Felipe Calderón was holding his latest I-am-the-president-no-matter-what-anyone-says press conference. Standing... More >>

• Overtime in Mexico

  published July 6, 2006

  MEXICO CITY — A SOUPY RAIN FELL on the people. Fireworks that sounded like revolutionary cannons kept exploding in the sky. And... More >>

• Compton's Crash Course

  published June 29, 2006

  Compton Community College celebrated what may be its last commencement June 9 on the campus’ grassy athletic field with a sea of balloons... More >>

• The Mexico Cup

  published June 29, 2006

  MEXICO CITY — Election Day in Mexico is Sunday. And after all this buzz about a stronger democracy, a more legitimate election... More >>

• Fallow Dreams

  published June 15, 2006

  Developer Ralph Horowitz is puzzled by all this talk about an offer from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office to buy his 14 acres... More >>

• Can't We All Calm Down?

  published June 8, 2006

  WAS AGUSTIN CONTRERAS a gang member?His family and friends say no. Police say it’s “unconfirmed.” And... More >>

• Pledging the Farm

  published June 8, 2006

  JUST WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE the South Central Farm was doomed, the fate of the 14 acres of contested land at 41st and Alameda streets has... More >>

• The Two Aristocrats

  published June 1, 2006

  LEAVE IT TO L.A., where even Spanish-speaking immigrant workers can look quickly past the void of celebrity, to welcome Mexican... More >>

• A Brown Day in L.A.

  published May 25, 2006

  THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA, the big, slick and powerful Latino civil-rights lobbying force based in Washington, D.C., is going to... More >>

• Marching Orders

  published May 18, 2006

  WHO’S READY FOR ANOTHER big immigrant-rights’ march?President Bush made his immigration-reform speech this week amid... More >>

• A Day of Power

  published May 4, 2006

  IN THE CHURNING CENTER of Monday’s immigration-rights march up Broadway, under a pale and merciless midday sun, a chorus of women... More >>

• Battle of Chavez Ravine

  published April 20, 2006

  His Kill the Pachuco Bastard! is one of the most recognizable and stunning works of recent contemporary Chicano art, a lucid,... More >>

• The Oyster Shooter

  published April 20, 2006

  Tomoko Morishita is the matronly sushi chef and owner of a little late-night spot in Little Tokyo, Haru Ulala, a tavern-style izakaya... More >>