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Down below in the Metro

Daniel Hernandez
Millions of passengers use the Mexico City metro daily. It is one of the largest and most used systems in the world, a crowning achievement of the capital's fastpaced growth during the mid-20th Century. A new Gold line, Line 12, is under construction. It will provide a much-needed lateral connection......
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Bodies moving at MX Beat

Daniel Hernandez
M.I.A. delivered once again at the MX Beat fest on Saturday night, scoring more direct hits on the ears and hips of thousands of Mexican fans who braved the merciless chill of the highland plain in Toluca where the festival was held. It was the final and biggest night of......
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Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

Daniel Hernandez
Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the central theme behind a new temporary exhibit at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. It is one of those "mega-shows" that have been sorta trendy in museums lately: separate entrances,......
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The Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog: So Good It's Illegal

Daniel Hernandez
Densely packed buildings, well-weathered and decaying, line the corridors of the southeastern section of downtown L.A.'s commercial district. The streets and sidewalks are choked with traffic and people. Spanish names and phrases dominate the signage and snatches of overheard conversations. This is one of those places in the city where......

The Bionico Man

Daniel Hernandez
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 of food or any signs of life. Facing delirium and the prospect of absolute solitude, I trudge on, clinging to a false hope of life......

Best Spinning Top

Daniel Hernandez
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 under attack. One revolution takes exactly an hour, so you’ll be able to sip on a much-needed scotch as you survey the......
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Best Escape From the Eastside

Daniel Hernandez
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 hoods of Echo Park or Silver Lake, the only real place to get that fuzzy feeling of being away from home but......

Oshun's Fruit

Daniel Hernandez
Charles Guelperin is a Santería priest who runs a shop at a strip mall in Hollywood called Botanica El Congo Manuel, situated between a Pizza Loca and a Pupusa Loca. Born in Argentina, Guelperin speaks with the assuredness of a man wise in the ways of the spirit world. He......

Putting Out the Cigar

Daniel Hernandez
“SOMETIMES A CIGAR IS JUST A CIGAR,” Janet Clayton told her staffers in the metro newsroom of the Los Angeles Times. “Sometimes things really are what they seem...
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Broken Sanctuary

Daniel Hernandez
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 used to deportations — from the mass ejections of Mexicans in the 1930s to the terrorizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids of today — that your......