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Uptown Provisions, the Mom and Pop Food Shop of Whittier’s Dreams, Is Opening...
After a delayed grand opening and months of anticipation for its social media followers, Uptown Provisions deli, market, and specialty food shop will open its doors on September 14. Aaron Melendrez, a...
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Homeless Residents Show Up to Vote In California’s Recall Election At Skid...
There were no official voting centers in Skid Row during the 2020 general election. There were voting centers in neighboring Arts District, Little Tokyo, and then a big void in Skid Row, leaving...
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Not WeHo, But East L.A: A New ‘Queer Mercado’ Creates an Inclusive, Safe...
This past Saturday, over 60 vendors sold their wares in the parking lot across Hilda L. Solis Learning Academy for the third iteration of The Queer Mercado in East Los Angeles. One of the founders,...
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How L.A. Is Showing up in Solidarity for the Haitian Refugees at the...
LOS ANGELES- Under the forever hot downtown Los Angeles sun, a coalition of Black organizations and immigrant-led groups decades in the making came together to stand up for Haitian immigrants at the...
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Meet ‘Succs 2 Be You,’ the Street Vendor From Moreno Valley Who Quit His...
Jesse Aleman, owner of Succs 2 Be You is a former concrete worker turned plant vendor whose life changed drastically about three years ago when he decided to quit his job to start his own plant...
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The Man That ‘Pershing Square’ Is Named After Hunted Pancho Villa and...
“Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!” Trump tweeted in 2017. On the campaign trail and during his...
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Block-Long Fence Erected Across From New Netflix Campus Restricts Pedestrian...
In the shadows of a brand new 20-story mixed-use development leased primarily by Netflix in a rapidly developing part of Hollywood, a chain-link fence stretching more than a city block obstructs the...
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SELA Rising: Latino-owned ‘Brown Soul Brewery’ Is Coming Soon to South Gate’s...
Tweedy is about to get twisted. The Historic Tweedy Mile in downtown South Gate, home to southeast L.A. cultural institutions like Greenspans and Yuri’s Records, to name a few, will now soon be home to...
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Meet the Puppet Master From Tijuana Behind ‘The Saddest Clown in Los Angeles’...
Cain Carias was brought to Los Angeles when he was 13 years old from Tijuana, Mexico. He grew up in MacArthur Park. One of his first jobs out of high school was volunteering at The Bob Baker Marionette...
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A Tortillería in East L.A. Is Giving Away Scholarships to Their Workers—and...
In Los Angeles, tortillas build communities, but on the corner of Cesar Chavez Street and Alma Avenue, tortillas are also creating pathways to higher education. La Princesita Tortillería is a...
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Selling Burritos in the Street and More Barrio Wisdom From the Viral...
The nostalgic power of talking about life and getting deep over the food that you grew up on remains undefeated. L.A. TACO shared a plate of birria (made from both beef and goat) and a great cóctel de...
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Tragedy and Death In Los Angeles: 12 Lesser-Known Evil and Eerie Real Events...
Los Angeles’ history involving tragedy and death does not make it into American history textbooks. Often the harsh realities get glossed over for a cleaner narrative. But as any person who has lived...
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Introducing Our New Co-Produced Podcast On the City Council Member Who Sold...
Remember when former city council member Jose Huizar’s home and office got raided by the FBI back in 2018? Huizar was supposed to be the pride and joy of Boyle Heights. Then he was charged last summer...
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A Controversial Restaurateur Just Pissed off L.A. Preservationists by Gutting...
If seeing L.A. history expunged by the union of trigger-happy developers and corrupt officials horrifies you, you may want to avert your eyes from the next sentence. Hollywood’s 94-year-old restaurant...
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Seven Months of Being Scared to Work: The City Attorney Charged Me With...
Most people come home to credit card offers, bills, and coupons in their mailbox. Instead, one day last March, I came home to a suspicious envelope from the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office informing...
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Is This Eerie Orange County Hiking Trail La Llorona’s Original Haunting...
Located a few minutes east of Orange near the unincorporated town of Silverado, Black Star Canyon’s 6.7-mile eponymous trail offers a breathtaking daytime adventure through Orange County’s Santa Ana...
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Dozens of Men Showed Up to March in Solidarity for Short Penises in DTLA’s...
Short-dicked men came out of the shadows in a huge way on Saturday, marching alongside their supporters in Downtown L.A. to demand an end to “small dong shame,” as first reported by TMZ. This “Small...
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New Anti-Cannabis Signs at LAX Further Confuse Passengers on Complicated...
To weed or not to weed? That is the question confused cannabis connoisseurs are asking when it comes to traveling through LAX. Shit’s legal, right? Locally, yes. Extremely. But on the federal level,...
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Toddler Killed While Visiting His Abuelo’s Tamal Stand in the Valley, Hit and...
It’s been two weeks since the fatal death of an 18-month-old boy from North Hills who was struck and killed after two cars collided on the corner of Nordhoff Street and Langdon Avenue. The accident...
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Thieves in NELA Are Stealing From the Passing Freight Trains Meant to Ease...
It’s beginning to look a lot like an early Christmas for thieves in Northeast Los Angeles. NBC shows neighborhood train tracks near Lincoln Park littered with “thousands” of upturned, opened, and...
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