¡Chévere! ‘Salvies Who Lunch’ Champions Salvadoran Los Angeles ~ Scene Report
If you’ve ever been to a fiesta Latina, you might’ve noticed that the matriarca usually eats last. She spends the bulk of the evening making sure everyone is fed, comfortable and satisfied. When the...
View ArticleVideo: Dodgers Induct Jaime Jarrín into Ring of Honor – Narrated by Edward...
Expertly narrated by Oscar nominee Edward James Olmos, this is the video the Los Angeles Dodgers played Friday night at Chavez Ravine before inducting their legendary Spanish language broadcaster Jaime...
View ArticleLos Dogis Is Officially Next-Level: Sinaloa-Style Hot Dogs Have Arrived on...
‘In Guasave, Sinaloa, when you’re eating hot dogs in the street, they greet you with a cup of beans.” And so will Carolina Castro at Los Dogis, L.A.’s first ever Sinaloa-style hot dog stand in Boyle...
View ArticleTwo Murder Counts for Suspect in Sleeping Homeless Killings ~ Police Seek to...
Santa Monica Police on Monday morning captured a man suspected of beating to death two homeless men in downtown Los Angeles, while a third man remains in critical condition. Police made the arrest...
View ArticleCopycat Hot Sauce: Bottle that Replaced Tapatio’s Mariachi on Label With...
Laura Ann Masura said the cat-face was meant to be cute. She said a friend designed the logo for her homemade hot sauce. Mimicking the iconic label of the Los Angeles-area company Tapatio, Masura...
View ArticleBaseball Bat Killer Is Six-Time Deportee; Facing 3 Murder, 4 Attempted Murder...
Los Angeles police say the man apprehended on Monday morning in connection with recent brutal baseball bat attacks on sleeping homeless men arrived in L.A. from Houston, in early September shortly...
View Article‘They Can’t Be Trusted’: L.A. Teachers Reject Latest District Raise Offer,...
Los Angeles Unified Teachers this week inched closer to their first city-wide strike in decades. L.A. Unified and UTLA concluded Day One of contractually mandated mediation Thursday after rejecting a...
View ArticleStudy: Business Improvement Districts Use Your Tax Dollars to Harass Homeless...
Business Improvement Districts in California – including the dozens in Los Angeles — are harassing and abusing homeless people by pushing for cruel and sometimes illegal policies such as confiscating...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Rent Strike ~ L.A. Taco Investigates
It started on a Monday – Feb. 5, 2018 – with an anxious group of tenants gathered on the sidewalk before their home, the Burlington Avenue Apartments. That day, unbeknown to those involved, would spark...
View Article‘There’s No One Telling Our Stories’ ~ Q&A with Dear Southside Founder...
South Central Los Angeles has for decades been associated with poverty and gang violence. Its stereotypes have made their way onto news headlines and popular films. After living in South Central L.A....
View ArticleBefore the L.A. Galaxy, Chivas USA, or LAFC, We Had the Los Angeles Aztecs
Though officially just a few months old, the Banc of California stadium in Exposition Park holds more than a half-century of history. The stadium sits atop what was once the Los Angeles Sports Arena,...
View ArticleKoreatown’s Favorite Sports Bars: Where To See Ryu Hyun-jin Lead The Dodgers...
It was nail biter, but we made it. The Dodgers overcame a crowded field to earn the West crown, beating the Colorado Rockies in a tiebreaker game on Monday. Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts has tapped...
View ArticleProposition 10 Clears Hurdle For Rent Control ~ The L.A. Taco California...
You probably got your voter guide in the mail, because it’s just about that time when Californians go to the polls and are asked to vote on propositions. This year they cover everything from whether or...
View ArticleSheriff’s Deputies Profiled Thousands of Drivers on the 5 Freeway Through the...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department racially profiled thousands of Latino motorists on the 5 Freeway, according to an investigative report by the Los Angeles Times. The Times examined about six...
View ArticleSheriff’s East L.A. Firearm Buy-Back at Belvedere Park: You Could Drive-Thru...
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department gun buy-back event in East L.A. on Saturday went like this: every five or 10 minutes, a person would drive up to a checkpoint, where deputies would remove the firearm...
View ArticleCases Of Flea-Borne Typhus in L.A. County Jump To 57 ~ Pasadena Is Calling It...
Los Angeles County public health officials are warning residents of an outbreak of typhus while they investigate exactly where in downtown L.A. people are getting infected. There are now 57 cases...
View ArticleGas Tax Measure Proposition 6 Is All About Hopes of a Republican Revolt ~ The...
You can thank John Randolph Haynes for our wild proposition system. Haynes moved to Los Angeles from Philadelphia in the late 1800s, racked up a lot of money as a medical doctor, and with it, political...
View ArticleThe True Story of How National Taco Day Was Invented — Then Appropriated
Last week, as seemingly all of the American food media tripped over itself to create listicles around National Taco Day, I shook my head in disgust. It is “celebrated” on October 4, the same day as...
View ArticleCops Make $11 Million Drug Bust, Arrest 13 Suspected Sinaloa Cartel Members...
Law enforcement officials arrested 13 people on drug and weapons charges, all suspected members of the Sinaloa Cartel. They were picked up on top of $11 million worth of heroin, cocaine,...
View ArticlePersona Non Grata: Why a Box Is Covering the Christopher Columbus Statue at...
Los Angeles celebrated its inaugural Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday with a panoply of events, native dancing, panel discussions, and of course, a lot of food trucks in and around Grand Park in...
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