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Spot Check: 20 New Restaurants, Pop-Ups, and Finds to Try In L.A. and Beyond This Week
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…. Weaf restaurant is a new takeout concept offering West African...
National Senior Care Chain Charged In 14 COVID Deaths at Beverly Grove Facility
Irvine-based, national chain Silverado Senior Living Management Inc., as well as three of its previous managers, have been charged in connection with fourteen COVID-19-related deaths at a residential care facility in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, District Attorney George Gascón announced today. The investigation into Silverado Beverly...
The Five Best Tacos in San Fernando
L.A. TACO is currently on its biggest mission yet: to create a food guide for every 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 every square inch helps make our fine city the best in the world. Today we’re taking a look at Pomona.
Headlines: These USC Students Developed A More Affordable Way To Catch A Ride From LAX
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. —Westchester: A group of USC students created an app to help other students find rideshares from LAX back to...
Headlines: L.A. Teachers Union Planning to Strike, Likely to Shut Down LAUSD Schools For Three Days
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. —Redondo Beach: A man was shot in the foot on Saturday afternoon at South Bay Galleria. He was rushed...
Headlines: Pedro Pascal Says “There’s No Good Mexican Food In New York” On ‘Hot Ones’
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. —”There’s no good Mexican food in New York,” Chilean-born, O.C. and San Antonio-raised actor Pedro Pascal proclaimed on the...
Taco Etiquette: Don’t Cross-Contaminate Or Be a Salsa Freeloader
@Treezfly on Twitter tweets, “the salsa bar por favor do not contaminate the salsas by mixing the different salsa ladles or serving utensils #respect the #salsabar use accordingly #gracias. Like the Emily Post Institute of the panza, Treezfly brings up a great point here. Show respect for the hardworking...
The Fight To Save Progressive KPFK F.M.
LOS ANGELES – Pacifica Radio, America’s largest non-commercial progressive radio broadcaster, is facing a hostile takeover that threatens the existence of the Los Angeles station KPFK and the entire network. Pacifica’s National Board (PNB) was infiltrated by a politically motivated group and as a result has cancelled mandatory elections, illegally extended their own term limits, suspended multiple members of the Los Angeles station KPFK and put the Los Angeles building up for sale – all without approval of their listener-members. The only thing that stands in the way of KPFK’s imminent destruction is the Los Angeles Local Station Board, which is fighting a bitter legal battle to save their station – and thereby the largest, progressive media outlet in the U.S.
West Adams: 12 Facts to Know About the Neighborhood’s Forgotten History
L.A. TACO is currently on its biggest mission yet: to create a 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 Pomona.
The Taco Oscars: The 15 Best Appearances By a Taco or Tortilla In a Feature Film
Our favorite scenes from movie history center on food, from Charlie Chaplin, making his dinner rolls boogie and Violet Beauregarde getting her comeuppance to an imprisoned Paul Sorvino slicing garlic to every Capo’s paper-thin ideal in Goodfellas and whatever the fuck that dude is thinking with a live octopus in Old Boy.
Headlines: Republicans Smack Talk City Council Members’ Proposal to Turn L.A. Into a Sanctuary City
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 local Republican Party is blasting a proposal by three Los Angeles City Council members to make Los Angeles...
L.A. County Health Officials Issue Overdose Warning For Animal Sedative Known As “Tranq”
Los Angeles County health officials issued a public alert today, warning of rising overdose risks associated with the animal sedative xylazine (increasingly known by the street name “tranq”), which has been detected in illicit drugs in areas including San Francisco and San Diego. The presence of the medication...
Headlines: Clippers Owner Promises 1,160 Toilets at New Stadium, ‘Three Times the NBA Average!’
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. —Inglewood: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer expects a shiny new stadium for his team. But what is he really excited...
Instead of Cops, Metro Just Added 300 ‘Transit Ambassadors’ to Make Riding L.A.’s Trains and Buses Safer For Everyone
In an effort to strengthen security and efficiency for both veteran and prospective riders of L.A.’s public trains and buses, L.A. Metro added 300 “transit ambassadors” to its ranks yesterday to lend a helpful presence around its stations and stops yesterday. According to the Long Beach Press...
The Six Best Tacos in West Adams
L.A. TACO is embarking on its biggest mission yet: to create a reliable taco and food guide for every neighborhood in Los Angeles! Along the way, we will also be releasing brief histories of each neighborhood to understand L.A. a little more and why each and every neighborhood makes our fine city unique. Check out the rest of our history and food guides on our neighborhood page.
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