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Headlines: Craft Cannabis Growers Frustrated by California Regulation Requiring Middlemen Distributors
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. —Craft cannabis growers in California, primarily those with smaller harvests that tend to be more invested in quality than...
Spot Check! Burritos La Palma Now in Highland Park, Beef Cheek Pastrami Tamales, Filipino Tortas, and THC Ketchup
Spot Check! Welcome to L.A. TACO’s latest column, where we bring you the latest and most exciting openings, pop-ups, finds, and food events around all of Los Angeles this week. Because the newer the spots, the downer the food…. Loreto – Barra de Peninsula is now open in Frogtown/Elysian...
How Pedro Pascal Became a Latino Sex Symbol
“I don’t think I’m a…” Pedro Pascal begins to respond before the polygraph examiner interrupts him during a recent interview on Vanity Fair. “He’s lying.”. Pedro sheepishly chuckles and then concedes, “That’s right. Yes, I am. Yes, I’m a heartthrob.”. Where’s...
How Pedro Pascal Became a Latino Sex Symbol
“I don’t think I’m a...” Pedro Pascal begins to respond before the polygraph examiner interrupts him during a recent interview on Vanity Fair. “He’s lying.”. Pedro sheepishly chuckles and then concedes, “That’s right. Yes, I am. Yes, I’m a heartthrob.”. Where’s the...
Headlines: Killercop.com Accused Of Putting ‘Bounties’ on LAPD Officers’ Heads, Under Fire From Police Union
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. —DTLA: A union for LAPD officers says they will ask a judge to take down Watch the Watchers, a...
Taco Madness 2023: Meet This Year’s 64 Taquería Challengers!
Followers of L.A.’s Taco Life, gather around the flamin’ trompo and brace yourself for this year’s TACO MADNESS. It is back and bigger and better. We finally stepped up this year and expanded our tournament to include 64 taco challengers! Like your favorite taquería that uses double tortillas, this year’s tournament will be double the fun and of course, double the taquero-on-taquero battles.
Metro is Hiring 48 New Transit Security Officers to Help Public Safety Issue On Trains and Busses
Two weeks after announcing the deployment of nearly 200 unarmed Metro Ambassadors aboard its trains and buses, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced Monday it had approved the hiring of 48 new transit security officers to bolster public safety. The Metro Board of Directors’s decision to increase its...
A New Mural at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights Reminds Students to Eat Tortillas and Beans
In spring 2022, the principal of Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights neighborhood approached Chicano artist Omar G. Ramírez to create a mural on campus. Ramírez knew this was the chance he was waiting for and responded with an ambitious, multidisciplinary art project meant to get young people to think critically about their food. Having grown up on Los Angeles’ Eastside, the artist had witnessed the impact of processed food on community health: Among low income California Latinos, those who are food insecure are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to those able to afford healthier food. This has been called food apartheid.
The 15 Best Fish and Seafood Tacos In Los Angeles
Here are the best fish and seafood tacos in Los Angeles right now. Because we see you out there. Struggling to stay asada-free over the last days of Lent. Or simply looking to a newly emerged sun and seeking to recreate the pleasures of your last dalliance with the Baja surf; a lime-crested Pacifico and piping hot, battered fish or shrimp taco in your clutches.
Headlines: Shoplifting in L.A. Soars, Hitting Highest Reports Since 2010
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. —According to Crosstown LA, shoplifting reports are “soaring,” after hitting their highest monthly total in January since at least...
The Strike is Over: The LAUSD Meets Union’s Demand of 30% Pay Raise and Fully Paid Health Benefits
The union representing 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District service workers who just concluded a three-day strike that shuttered the nation’s second-largest school system has reached a tentative labor contract with the district, officials announced today. The tentative pact still needs the approval of Service Employees International Union Local 99 members and the LAUSD board. The deal effectively meets the union’s demand for a 30% pay raise and also includes bonus payments, retroactive pay, and fully paid health benefits.
One of the Country’s Biggest (And Only) Latino-Owned Breweries In SELA Will Close Soon If They Don’t Find Investor Partners
Border X Brewing, one of the largest and only Latino-owned breweries in the United States, is in danger of closing its SELA location in Bell without outside investment. David Favela, who co-owns Border X with his wife Carmen Velasco-Favela tells L.A. TACO, is hoping to bring on up to five Los Angeles-based partners to purchase a 40% ownership stake in the brewery to transition it to a subsidiary model.
Only in Pomona: A Delicious Bolivian-Mexican Lamb Barbacoa Hidden Gem
Hidden in a suburban corner of Pomona, away from the main streets and thoroughfares of the city, is a hole in the wall where you’ll find a single mother of four serving incredibly flavorful Mexican barbacoa with her own Bolivian sazón. Virginia Ardaya, a Bolivian woman, works seven...
Headlines: Angelenos Overwhelmingly Want To See Fewer LAPD Officers Patrolling Their Area, According To Deleted Twitter Poll
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. —On Thursday the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) posted a poll on their official Twitter account asking people if...
Remembering Redondo Beach’s Forgotten Indigenous, Salt, and Surf History
L.A. TACO is embarking on its biggest mission yet: to create a taco and food guide for every single neighborhood in Los Angeles! Along the way, we will also be releasing brief histories of each neighborhood to understand L.A.’s past and present a little more, all the while celebrating how each and every square inch helps make our fine city the best in the world. Today we’re taking a look at Redondo Beach!
Headlines: Dodgers Fan Base Ranked Second ‘Most Annoying’ in MLB, According to a New Poll
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. —According to a new poll released by ‘The Game Day,’ a sports entertainment and media company, Dodgers fans ranked...
The L.A. River Runs Through All of Us, Here Are Four Places to Visit, Take In Nature, and Reflect
Without the Los Angeles River, there would be no Los Angeles. The 51-mile waterway, which stretches from Canoga Park to Long Beach and San Pedro Bay, with numerous tributaries branching off along the way and converging with two other major rivers, has sustained people living in our region for over 12,000 years. This begins with the Indigenous societies who lived in harmony with the River loooooong before it was taken and eventually transformed into a channel for flood control following the Flood Control Act of 1936 and a devastating flood in 1938.
County Review Shows 367 Signatures Of Dead People In Failed Petition to Recall Gascón
Saying they found evidence that dead people were among the petition signers in the most recent effort to recall District Attorney George Gascón, and in support of a state ballot initiative, Los Angeles County election officials requested that the state Attorney General’s Office review alleged irregularities in the collection of petition signatures.
I’m a History Teacher at LAUSD, This Is Why I’m Striking
School staff danced in the street to the off-kilter rhythm of a cowbell. Umbrellas flipped and blew into fences. A normally taciturn teacher grabbed a bullhorn and urged passing cars to honk or at least acknowledge his presence. Fold-out tables sagged under the weight of donated donut boxes and coffee carriers. People laughed, took selfies, and sheltered one another from the rain. A group of more than 100 teachers and school staff picketed, chanted, and marched in front of an almost entirely empty school.
Widow of Tupac Shakur’s “All Eyez On Me” Producer Adds Fraud Claim to Royalties Lawsuit
Capucine Jackson, the widow of Johnny Lee Jackson, a musician and producer who worked with Tupac Shakur on many of his best known songs, including “How Do U Want It,” “Hit ‘Em Up” and “All Eyez On Me,” has added a fraud claim to her existing lawsuit, which seeks royalties that she alleges Amaru Entertainment Inc., the company formed by the late rapper’s mother, Afeni Shakur, is refusing to pay under a contract.
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