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Watts Rapper 03 Greedo’s Possibility of Parole Gives L.A. Rap Fans Hope After...
03 Greedo, the Watts-born rapper who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison at the height of his career, might be coming home relatively soon. Fans of the west coast rapper began speculating on...
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Headlines: Navy Vet Sucker-Punched in Koreatown; CHP Officers Receive...
Welcome to L.A. TACO’s daily news briefs, where we bring our loyal members, readers, and supporters the latest headlines about Los Angeles politics and culture. Stay informed and look closely. – A US...
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Multiple LAPD Officers Caught on Video Shoving and Knocking Down Roe v. Wade...
Hundreds of people gathered in Pershing Square on Friday to protest the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that paved the way for safe and legal abortions. Speakers...
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Headlines: Man Arrested With Flamethrower In DTLA; Another For Bringing...
Welcome to L.A. TACO’s daily news briefs, where we bring our loyal members, readers, and supporters the latest headlines about Los Angeles politics and culture. Stay informed and look closely. —The...
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DTLA Developer’s Guilty Verdict May Mean Worse Days Ahead For Jose Huizar
In Smoke Screen: The Sellout, L.A. TACO and Neon Hum’s lauded 9-part investigative podcast, journalist and host Mariah Castañeda charted the meteoric ascent and shameful fall of purportedly crooked...
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Two L.A. Burger Shops Join Boycott Against ‘Martin’s Famous Potato Buns’ Over...
The sweet, soft buns known as Martin’s Famous Potato Roll are to the modern-day hamburger craze what handmade Sonoran wheat tortillas are to your Sonoran tacos, a nearly ubiquitous, cult-status...
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Meet Our Award-Winning Staff That Your Memberships Directly Support
Straight up: We are the little TACO that could. For the last five years, L.A. TACO has defied grim journalism trends happening at both the local and national newsroom levels. At a time that saw...
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Woman Spits At and Slaps Street Vendor In South Central After Being Asked To...
On Saturday, July, 3, at around 5 P.M. local street vendors in South Los Angeles, Bertha Zuniga, and her coworkers were setting up their taco stand on Normandie and Slauson when the unexpected...
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Self-Snitching L.A. Rapper Will Plead Guilty to Defrauding EDD of Over $1...
The social media generation may be as famous for self-incrimination as it is for TikTok grinding, ice bucket challenges, and airbrushing all signs of evident reality from off of their foreheads. The...
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Watch This Very Weird LAPD PSA ‘Copaganda’ Video About Being Safe When...
In a urgent sign that the police should consider diverting more of its taxpayer-supplied funds from the latest Raytheon technology, BearCats, and military weaponry, and towards a decent film production...
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Backyard Punk-Inspired ‘BYO Gaming’ Lounge Offers East L.A. Youth Another Way...
Talk to any working adult who grew up in the heart of East Los Angeles or Boyle Heights and they will all have one thing in common: something that kept them “off the streets” while they were growing...
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Is Arizona’s New Ban on Filming the Police In L.A.’s Future?
A ban on consciously filming police officers within a distance of eight feet of them, and without their permission, was signed into law by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (rhymes with douchey) on Thursday....
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Street Vendors Yell ‘This is Not a Crime’ As Taquero is Handcuffed By San...
Street vendor Cesar Marroquin, owner of La Fonda Asadero in San Bernardino, was having what he called a normal day at work grilling carnes and firing up Los Angeles’ iconic bacon-wrapped hot dogs when...
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More Than 140 L.A. Times Staff Members Demand The Times Stop Surprise Testing...
It was the summer of 1986, and journalist Jesse Katz hoped to secure a two-year training position with the Los Angeles Times after completing an internship. A year prior, he applied for the same job...
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This Santa Ana Councilman Wants To Make Any and All Attacks On Street Vendors...
This Tuesday, July 19, in the next Santa Ana City Council meeting, Johnathan Ryan Hernandez, the Councilman for Ward 5, will raise for discussion a proposed law that would classify all attacks on the...
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‘Our Communities Depend on Each Other:’ Olivia in K-Town Is Using Food to...
Olivia is a vegetarian restaurant that opened five months ago in Koreatown, Los Angeles, co-founded by entrepreneurs Danny Oh and Chef Mario Alberto. Their cuisine is vegetarian and vegan, and they...
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Recent Reversal of State Loitering Law May Be Why One Koreatown Resident Sees...
A recent thread on Reddit called our attention to a bill passed recently by Governor Gavin Newsom that decriminalizes loitering in a public place with the intent to practice sex work in California. A...
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This OC Vato Loco Just Became the First ‘Cholo Comedian’ to Get Recognized at...
George Perez will be added to the walls of the World Famous Comedy Store in Hollywood on July 23rd. He joins Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Dave Chapelle as well as other famous Latino comics like...
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Why Everyone Seems to Be Panicking About L.A.’s New Sixth Street Bridge
Two weeks ago, the new version of the Sixth Street Viaduct was officially opened, bridging downtown L.A.’s Arts District to Boyle Heights. Almost immediately, it became the talk of the town, which,...
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Tragic San Pedro Shooting Occurred During Softball Game Promoting Peace Among...
Over 50 shots punctured the serenity of a Sunday afternoon at Peck Park in San Pedro this week, leaving eight people (four women and five men) wounded. Thirty-one-year-old Tashman “Taz” Williams and...
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