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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2007 Stories by Daniel Hernandez

• The Bionico Man

  published October 4, 2007

  I can see it now: Scouring the ashen urban landscape of a postapocalyptic city, I dart from hiding place to hiding place, desperate for scraps... More >>

• Best Spinning Top

  published October 4, 2007

  The revolving bar at the top of the Westin Bonaventure is the ideal place to take in a 360-degree view of the L.A. skyline while the city is... More >>

• Best Escape From the Eastside

  published October 4, 2007

  Sometimes you just need to get out of Dodge — to the other side of it, I mean. If you live in the insular and incestuous Eastside hipster... More >>

• Putting Out the Cigar

  published September 13, 2007

  “SOMETIMES A CIGAR IS JUST A CIGAR,” Janet Clayton told her staffers in the metro newsroom of the Los Angeles Times.... More >>

• Oshun's Fruit

  published September 13, 2007

  Charles Guelperin is a Santería priest who runs a shop at a strip mall in Hollywood called Botanica El Congo Manuel, situated between a... More >>

• Broken Sanctuary

  published August 23, 2007

  IF YOU’RE GOING TO GET DEPORTED, guess there’s no better place for it to happen than in Los Angeles. The city is just so... More >>

• Call It LACKMA?

  published August 16, 2007

  In a hypothetical game of word association, “Important Art and Place” will almost certainly conjure places like France or Italy... More >>

• Pedro Guzman's Return

  published August 9, 2007

  EIGHTY-NINE DAYS AFTER HE WAS DEPORTED from the Los Angeles County jail system to Tijuana, mentally troubled U.S. citizen Pedro Guzman... More >>

• Helen of Inglewood

  published August 9, 2007

  In 1939 a 31-year-old Pasadena artist named Helen Lundeberg, commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, finished a... More >>

• Relatives in the Mirror

  published August 2, 2007

  Thanks to the U.S. education system and the Mexican concept of the faceless raza cósmica, there are whole branches of... More >>

• Lost in Tijuana

  published July 19, 2007

  She showers, dresses, clips on her fanny pack and sets out once more from the dusty lot in Tijuana’s Zona Norte at 3:30 p.m., another day... More >>

• Independence Day in Gaza Park

  published July 12, 2007

  The only plan was to make sure to be at the lake by nightfall, for the fireworks. This was the consensus at a pool party on the Fourth of July... More >>

• The Art Outlaws of East L.A.

  published June 7, 2007

  They enter the Winchell’s just as the artist Harry Gamboa Jr. instructs: Take a seat anywhere you can, grab a doughnut, and try not to... More >>

• May Day Do-Over

  published May 24, 2007

  It’s amazing how little it takes to make a top cop shrink away from you and retreat in silence.At last Thursday’s do-over of the M... More >>

• Very Be Careful

  published May 24, 2007

  Very Be CarefulClub Bahia, May 25There's always an element of danger at a Very Be... More >>

• Ichiro Irie

  published May 10, 2007

  {mosimage} Ahhh, L.A., a magical place where a Tokyo-born, Westside-raised trilingual artist starts off... More >>

• Sean de Lear

  published May 10, 2007

  A little-known piece of trivia about L.A. party icon Sean de Lear is that he’s certified to dive to 50 feet below sea level in open water. H... More >>

• MacArthur Park Showdown

  published May 3, 2007

  Until Tuesday, the immigrant-rights movement had been defined by its buoyant, almost jubilant nature. Immigrants and their supporters... More >>

• Trouble at the L.A. Times

  published April 26, 2007

  Did the Los Angeles Times kill a front-page article about the fight over the recognition of the Armenian genocide because its... More >>

• Turning the Tables

  published April 19, 2007

  When she was hired as general manager of KPFK (90.7 FM), Eva Georgia appeared to be a walking trophy of progressive brownie points: a... More >>

• Mexican American Princes: ¡Mas Suave!

  published April 12, 2007

  “Youngsters got to learn, got to recognize, that the cold heart of Hispanic ambition can leave your soul as dry as the Owen... More >>

• Are You a Map?

  published April 12, 2007

  {mosimage}1. You are a “junior” or a II or III, or you are named after your grandfather. More >>

• Prince or Troll?

  published April 12, 2007

  Sure, pretty much every Latino politician in L.A. starts out as a prince. But how long can they last? Familiarity breeds contempt, and once... More >>

• Milestones in MAP History

  published April 12, 2007

  {mosimage}1949Edward Roybal, an “Hispano” from New Mexico, becomes the first Mexican-American elected to the Los Angeles Ci... More >>

• All Over the Map

  published April 12, 2007

  Rocky DelgadilloHair-gel success storyDelgadillo is known for his slick, shiny hair, football-jock build and ability to alienate... More >>