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Where to Eat This Weekend: Historic Filipinotown’s Holiday Party, Tlayudas for L.A.’s Indigenous Communities, and Indian Sweets Gift Boxes
Historic Filipinotown is sponsoring its "HiFi Holidays Fil-Am Winter Market" this Saturday on Beverly Boulevard, in a holiday-themed afternoon highlighting small businesses, community, and culture with DJs, parol-making, vendors of clothes, candles, jewelry, and art, plus Filipino eats and more. Dec. 16, 12-5 PM, 1665 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA...
Activist Edin Enamorado Raided at 4 AM and Arrested By San Bernardino Sheriffs, Along With Seven Others
Early Thursday morning, activist and street vendor advocate Edin Alex Enamorado and his partner, Wendy Lujan, were arrested by The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, along with six other known activists. The arrest comes hours after Enamorado, and other activists from across Southern California, protested a law enforcement officer...
Why This Beloved L.A. Chef Is Closing His James Beard-Nominated Restaurant in Chinatown
Wes Avila reflects a bit over the phone on his final decision to close Angry Egret Dinette. In a matter of 1,095 days, he was a 2022 James Beard Award finalist for “Best New Restaurant” and also got to throw the first pitch in the opening game of the 2021 World Series.
Sublime Unites With Bradley Nowell’s Son Jakob At DTLA’s Punk-Reggae Benefit For HR Of Bad Brains
It took the mysterious illness of a punk icon to bind together a few scattershot supergroups and one of the most drooled-upon prospects in indie rock unification: Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, the two surviving members of Sublime, playing the band’s tunes live with Jakob Nowell, the son and spitting image of Bradley Nowell, the Sublime singer and frontman who was taken too soon by a heroin overdose at age 28 in 1995.
Chicana Educators Are Being Sued for Including Arab and Palestinian Lessons In Their Ethnic Studies Curriculum
In recent years, we’ve witnessed parents and community members protest on school grounds against LGBTQ book readings, Black Lives Matter, and history lessons on U.S. Slavery. Another topic that sparked heated debates at school meetings and between politicians across the country is the inclusion of Ethnic Studies in school...
The 12 Best Tamales In Los Angeles Accessible By Metro
For many of us, the gifts we look forward to unwrapping the most during the holidays don't come wrapped with gift wrap but in delicate layers of corn husk and banana leaf that reveal plump forms of tender masa stuffed with stewed meat, cheese, and vegetables. In other words, tamales.
Two LAPD Helicopters Are Flying Around For 20 Hours Almost Every Single Day of The Year, According to New Audit
If you live in the city of Los Angeles, there’s a good chance that you’ve been awoken from a deep slumber by the incessant sound of an LAPD helicopter hovering above your bed. Helicopters, or “ghetto birds” as they’re sometimes called, have become a fixture of L.A. life, particularly for the city’s communities of color.
Then and Now: Photographing the L.A. Filming Locations of ‘Scarface’ 40 Years Later
In 2011, Nike released the Air Zoom LeBron 9. Two versions of the high-top sneaker were made, reflecting the color palette of the team for which LeBron played at the time—the Miami Heat. One was a black shoe with red-and-white accents, but it was the other, a white shoe with black-and-red accents, that was named after Miami’s most well-known onscreen anti-hero: Tony Montana, the Marielito cocaine kingpin yayed to the gills and played to 11 by Al Pacino in Scarface.
Listen to the Next Essential Cumbia Christmas Rola From Chicano Batman’s É. Arenas
Home Alone and reveled in your nostalgic yuletide G-spot as "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee played in the background. You've sipped on ponche con piquete with family and friends while "Burrito Sabanero" blasted in the background. Maybe you've even unconciously bobbed your head to Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" while waiting in line with your cart full of bargain buys at T.J. Maxx.
Councilmember Kevin de León Opposes Boyle Heights Development, Following Appeal By ‘Anti-Gentrification’ Group
Just a little over a year after L.A.'s City Council had one of the most significant racism-based controversies in history, involving leaked audio and the former City Council president Nury Martinez, former CD1 representative Gil Cedillo, and CD 14 representative Kevin de León, de León has now penned a lengthy letter opposing the development of a new six-story mixed-use building with 50 units on what is now a Mexican restaurant, independent book shop, and beauty salon, along with a rent-controlled residential unit at 2125 E. Cesar Chavez.
How L.A. Inspires Indigenous Composer Raven Chacon’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning ‘Noise Music’
Raven Chacon has been making noise, literally and otherwise, since he was a youngster growing up in New Mexico. Fascinated by instruments of all kinds (those he’s bought and those he’s built), the 45-year-old Diné composer and artist has spent a lifetime studying the sounds things and people make and creating experimental performances that build upon that noise, melodious and otherwise, to make listeners think about the places they inhabit: physical, spiritual, artistic, and intellectual.
Seven Diverse Comic Book Creators Share Their Advice For Budding Writers at L.A. Comic Con
For three days, Spider-Man and his multiple variations were everywhere inside the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Spidey Multiverse fandom had swung into the 2023 LA Comic Con, where hundreds of Spider-Men, Spider-Women, and Spider-Kids gathered with thousands of their non-Spidey-attired, pop culture-loving peers to celebrate the worlds created by their favorite comic books, movies, anime, cartoons, and video games.
‘These Animals Saved My Life:’ L.A.’s Equestrian Communities Fight Ordinance Seeking to Ban Local Rodeos
Early Tuesday morning, community members from across Los Angeles gathered at City Hall to oppose an ordinance that seeks to ban rodeos within Los Angeles city limits. Over 100 men and women, both mounted on horses and on foot, filled City Hall’s steps chanting, “My culture matters” and “Save the Rodeos” in Spanish and English, with some making their way inside to the city council meeting.
Who Keeps Whitewashing Boyle Heights’ Anti-Gentrification Mural?
“If you don’t know this ‘hood, you’re going to know this ‘hood,” Viva Padilla tells L.A. TACO. “We’re not going to let you get away with it.”. Padilla says this while standing beside the mural of local artist Sergio Robleto that she contracted as part of her anti-gentrification campaign in Boyle Heights. Padilla is part of a collective of tenants at 2125 E Cesar Chavez known as El Apetito-La Finessa collective, who have banded together to defend the building where the mural sits.
L.A. Mayor Warns Unhoused Not to Sleep Alone As Police Seek Killer of Three Sleeping Homeless Men
Los Angeles police are searching for a man suspected of walking up to three unhoused people this week while they slept during the early hours of the morning and shooting them to death. The first shooting happened on Sunday in Southeast L.A. at approximately 3 AM “in an alley in...
Bronny James Cleared To Play Basketball Again By His Doctors
Bronny James, the son of Laker LeBron James who suffered a cardiac arrest during a July basketball practice at USC, has been cleared by doctors for a "full return to basketball" and could soon be on the court for the Trojans, the James family announced today. "Bronny James is now...
Where To Eat This Weekend: Boozy Fresas Con Crema, El Ruso’s New Flour Tostadas, Heritage Fire, and Hotville’s Fried Chicken-and-Chorizo Paella
Chef Sergio Ortega's Aspeti, which calls its cooking "Michoacán cuisine with a California touch & viceversa," is popping up at Silver Lake's Tabula Rasa on Wednesday, December 6 at 5pm. Dishes include potato taquitos with Oaxacan cheese mashed potatoes, kohlrabi, and melted leeks, plus mezcal-cured steelhead trout tostadas, and chicken confit enchiladas with mole Moreliano. For dessert: Mexican key lime pie with Maria's cookies and guava jam.
Sonoratown Will Open a Long Beach Location Next Year
Praise be to the taco gods, as we've just learned Sonoratown, the Downtown L.A. taqueria beloved for its San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora-style flour tortillas, asada, chivichangas, and caramelos, is coming to a new location in Long Beach. This new, southernmost Sonoratown will be located in Downtown Long Beach...
Fake Police Donation Scam Warning Goes Out To Manhattan Beach Residents
The Manhattan Beach Police Department alerted the public today about a recently emerging phone scam. Officials say scammers are exploiting the trust some citizens place in law enforcement by impersonating the department's Police Officers Association to ask for donations over the phone. "It is crucial for the public to be...
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