Daniel Hernandez

His Kill the Pachuco Bastard! is one of the most recognizable and stunning works of recent contemporary Chicano art, a lucid, violent painting depicting the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. But Vincent Valdez, a 28-year-old artist, is not from L.A. He’s from “San Anto” — San Antonio. And he......

Tomoko Morishita is the matronly sushi chef and owner of a little late-night spot in Little Tokyo, Haru Ulala, a tavern-style izakaya joint where the menus are written in crayon and ballpoint pen. She doesn’t quite know it, but Tomoko, an older lady with a gentle air, has become my......

For being an original L.A. badass, it is somewhat remarkable that Dino Dinco was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and raised, very literally, in a biker bar until he was 14. Dinco moved out here then, in 1984, and has transformed himself into a widely exhibited video artist and photographer and......

There’s a funny-sad moment in the second act of that seminal pre-hipster hipster film of the late 1990s, Rushmore, where eager Margaret Yang visits Max Fischer to bring him a small plant. Max is in a deep depression, having lost his two loves, Miss Cross and Rushmore Academy, which expelled......

AND THE MARCHERS kept marching. Up and down the coasts, through the deserts and mountain country, in the Deep South, all over the Northeast and in the plains, on Broadway in New York City, by the hundreds of thousands on the Mall in Washington, and through L.A.’s Chinatown, immigration-rights marches......

IT’S BEEN A HEAVY COUPLE of weeks for the high-school kids of Los Angeles. After their parents, relatives and neighbors staged what some believe to be the largest march in L.A. since the days of Martin Luther King Jr., many arrived at school last Monday unsure of their role in......

LIKE IT WENT IN 1994, when Latinos in Los Angeles took to the streets to protest Proposition 187, Mexican flags were seen flapping all over L.A. during this week’s demonstrations. And like then, some are claiming that the presence of Mexican flags in today’s protests will backfire by energizing those......

STILL SLIGHTLY STUNNED by their own success at mobilizing so many people in their cause, the people behind the “Gran Marcha 2006” said this week they were still figuring out their next move. There is talk of another wave of nationwide demonstrations on April 10, as well as a possible......

UH-OH. DID SOMEONE WAKE the sleeping gigante? If you didn’t try to drive through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday or flip to Univision or Telemundo, you could have finished the day without realizing that history had just passed you by. The 500,000-strong immigration-rights march that surprised some provided undeniable proof......