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L.A. Metro Announces Buses and Trains Will Now Be Even Slower Due to Shortage...
As if L.A. commuters who rely on public transportation couldn’t have it any worse. In January, the MTA re-instituted fares following nearly two years of pandemic-driven free bus rides, in an attempt to...
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Meet L.A.’s Lesser-Known Iconic Black History Trailblazers Who Shaped Our...
As the last few years have made abundantly clear, Los Angeles is not as liberal a city as pop culture might convey. There is a long and definitely not proud history of small-mindedness and bigotry here...
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‘Putin = Devil:’ Hundreds of Anti-Russia Activists Protest In Support of...
On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of members of L.A.’s Ukrainian community and activists rallied outside the United States federal building in Westwood, standing in support of their home nation of...
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The Cities With the Cheapest Gas in L.A. and O.C. Right Now
Like any enduring addiction, we can’t stop putting gas in our tanks, no matter how bad it is for our future or how disgusted it makes us feel with ourselves. And with gas prices going ever higher due...
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Hermon’s Hidden History as the Epicenter of L.A.’s Thriving Chicano Tennis...
Die-hard Chicano tennis players have been hitting balls at the Hermon Tennis Courts for nearly 50 years. It’s a community of self-taught, mostly retired men and women who come from nearby Lincoln...
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Street Vendor Abuse: Video Shows Man Trashing L.A. Fruit Cart
Another day, another inexplicably angry white guy acting irrationally angry over hard-working immigrants working hard. The latest incident was witnessed by anonymous, progressive YouTube creator The...
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Six Places Across L.A. to Try Mexico’s Delicious Meatless Dishes Only Served...
It’s that time of the year again when all of a sudden, every single person who grew up Catholic and has roots in Latin America gives up eating meat once a week. During this time, the sales of fish and...
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Know Your Rights: LAPD Limits Officers From Searching For More Serious Crimes...
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Commission adopted a new policy limiting “pretextual stops.” Pretextual stops—when police stop a driver for a minor traffic infraction to search for a potentially...
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Whittier’s ‘Tacos Y Que’ Seeks Help After Tens of Thousands of Dollars In...
Whittier’s Tacos y Que, the pop-up taquería owned and operated by a duo of music industry pros, Bryant Siono and Fabian Chavez, has experienced an unfortunate theft that has left the outfit without its...
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Glendale Man Gets Five Years of Prison Time For Hate Crime At a Turkish Cafe...
Back in November 2020, when the former Soviet states of Azerbaijan and Armenia were again at war with one another, two L.A.-based men decided to take their rage out on a Turkish restaurant in Beverly...
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It Took Nearly Three Years for a Sheriff’s Deputy to Get Charged With...
More than two and half years after killing 24-year-old Ryan Twyman, Andrew Lyons, a former L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy (LASD) was charged with manslaughter last week. Video surveillance footage of the...
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A Data Hero Organized L.A.’s Taquerías Into a Taco Matrix Based On Cost and...
Thank god for people who are smarter than us, as today we get this perpetual Taco Tuesday gift that places a whole fuck-ton of data into one usable map that compares L.A. taco spots by price and...
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Taco About Laughter: Four Emerging Latino Comedians Share Their Favorite...
Four comedians introduced me to their favorite taco place while they told me about their life in comedy: Jose V., Orlando Lyba, Erik Rivera, and Yubicela Brito. These comics come out of a different...
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L.A. Makes Moves to Remove Vaccine Requirement at Bars and Restaurants
Good news for Angelenos who are tired of COVID mandates. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to lift the city’s vaccine verification requirement. It’s the latest step that local...
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L.A.’s Old Air Raid Sirens Won’t Do Much In Case of An Attack, But Are Still...
Air raid sirens have howled relentlessly over Ukraine’s cities, towns, and villages since the first moments of Russia’s damnable invasion, a sustained buzz that plunges to a bass tone, elongating its...
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Newly Installed Cameras Put a Stop to Cargo Train Thefts in Northeast L.A.
Back in November, we sounded our horns over reports that thieves in Northeast L.A. were targeting Union Pacific freight trains, stealing packages en route to the people who had ordered them and leaving...
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Someone Took Live Banda, Tacos, and Lowriders to Celebrate a Loved One Who Is...
In the streets of Los Angeles, not even the impenetrable walls of jail are strong enough to stop a proper Mexican-style birthday party from cracking. An exhibition of what is perhaps the most L.A....
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This Roving Armenian Taco Stand Aims to Spread Cultural Awareness Across L.A.
A nocturnal food stand named Miss Wraps is spreading Armenian cuisine and culture throughout the city, one taco at a time. Founder Diana Gasparyan and her cousin, Grigor Madaryan, spotlight the...
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Little Tokyo’s Oldest Mochi Shop Wanted Homeless Swept, and Now Public Is...
For many, it happened quickly; for others, the day couldn’t come soon enough. Now that unhoused residents in Little Tokyo have been cleared from Toriumi Plaza, what will come of the legacy of...
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For a Taste of Odessa-Style Ukrainian Food, Head to Babushka Grandma’s Deli...
Welcome to Local Gems, our monthly restaurant column presented by White Claw, the official hard seltzer of L.A. TACO. Each month we’ll honor neighborhood institutions that make delicious food and have...
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