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Long Beach Elotero Shot And Killed Yesterday In Broad Daylight
A street vendor was shot and killed yesterday while working in Long Beach. Officers responded after multiple reports of gunshots in the area were heard. They arrived at the 100 block of East Eagle Street at approximately 4:05 P.M., where, upon arrival, officers located what they described as a male adult victim who had a gunshot wound on his upper body.
Manager at La Casita Mexicana Suspected of Embezzling More Than $300,000 Over 12 Years
Jorge A. Bejarano, the former manager of one of L.A.'s most beloved Mexican restaurants, La Casita Mexicana in the City of Bell, was arrested last week. Bejarano is now facing 17 charges, ranging from the identity thefts of 16 people to the alleged embezzling of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A California Program to Get Free Fresh Fruits and Veggies to Low-Income Families Is a Hit. Now It’s Running Out of Money.
Macaria Palacios lives in Compton, where she regularly shops at Mother’s Nutritional Center, a small grocery store dedicated to serving low-income households enrolled in food assistance programs. She buys apples, broccoli, nopales (edible cactus) and spinach through a state program that provides an instant rebate from the purchase of fruits and vegetables. The program allows her to stretch her money and use the fresh produce to manage her diabetes without taking medicine.
Why So Many People Are Still Skeptical About Mount Waterman, the Closest Ski Lifts to Los Angeles, Opening Again for the First Time Since 2020 This Weekend
Mount Waterman will open again to the public this Saturday and Sunday for the first time in four years. The family-owned ski lifts are less than a 60-mile drive from Highland Park, Pasadena, or Glendale. On a weekday with no traffic, it takes less than an hour to reach deep piles of snow on the privately owned ski resort on some of the highest peaks (8,000 feet and more) in Angeles National Forest up the 2 highway.
Membership Has Its Perks! Here’s What You Receive When You Join L.A. TACO
We encourage our readers to join L.A. TACO's Membership Program. Because our local street-level journalism is not the only thing that benefits from you becoming an L.A. TACO member. We're working hard to make sure it benefits L.A. locals who love great food, drink, and cannabis. When you become a...
The 13 Oldest Restaurants In Los Angeles That Have Been Open For 100 Years Or Longer
In today’s L.A., it’s harder than ever to run a restaurant successfully. With rising rents and runaway inflation, it’s a bonafide miracle to make it even ten years nowadays. So, for a restaurant to make it to 100 years old is very impressive and shows that they’re masters at what they do. They must be doing something right if they’ve been around for a century or more.
Google’s Robotaxis Can Now Operate in Los Angeles. Here’s Why Some Angelenos Are Concerned.
Los Angeles will become the third city to host Google’s self-driving taxis. The autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo received approval from California regulators to launch in L.A. County in the coming months. However, Waymo’s expansion into other U.S. cities has been met with resistance. Driverless taxi services, including Waymo and G.M.-owned Cruise, have been involved in recent high-profile collisions that sparked renewed safety concerns.
Thousands Gathered to Celebrate One Of L.A.’s Most Sacred Sites in Long Beach
Thousands of people showed up over the weekend to honor Puvungna, a ten-thousand-year-old sacred site in east Long Beach where Cal State Long Beach was built. While the campus now celebrates it via its Powwow, which is the largest gathering of American Indians in Southern California and also the longest-running university-based powwow west of the Mississippi River, it was not always like this. In the 70s, the school tried to develop the land and found bodily remains of native Gabrielino, Tongva, Kizh, and Acjachemen peoples in the land.
Celebrate Women’s History Month with these Indie Women-Owned Businesses In L.A.
It’s Women’s History Month with International Women’s Day taking place today, and what better way to celebrate the women of L.A. than by highlighting some of the best women-owned businesses in the county? Below are several gems that started at the bottom and have succeeded in their distinct industries. Many featured businesses have DIY roots, with the shops selling handmade products you can’t find anywhere else.
The 5 Best Tacos in North Hollywood
When you crave tacos in The Valley, North Hollywood is the 'hood to satisfy it. In NoHo, customers line up around the block to taste handmade tortillas, thick, zesty salsas, and well-seasoned meats. However, there is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned money on a sub-par plate of tacos, so here is our list of L.A. TACO-approved taquerías spanning a curbside taco shop with a Peruvian-inspired salsa, a true birria specialist, and just a straight up textbook-perfect al pastor.
Fires In Oaxaca Have Claimed 5 Farmers’ Lives and Are Still Burning. Here’s How To Help
L.A.'s OaxaCalifornian restaurant community has been raising funds independently to help community efforts in Oaxaca after fires burned through more than 700 acres of Oaxaca's Tlacolula central valley in six days. "The Zapotec community is working with the bare minimum equipment," wrote Felipe and Ignacio Santiago of X'tiousu Kitchen in...
What To Eat This Weekend: Vegan Koobideh, Oaxacan ‘Mega Tacos,’ Wagyu Tongue Carpaccio, and Coffee Brewed In Hot Sand
It's the freakin' weekend and we've got a lot of crazy ideas about where you should eat. Come along. Humor us... Oaxacan-style Tacos El Tio is now open in Compton, serving "mega tacos" on handmade tortillas, along with mini-tlayudas, burritos, quesadillas, tortas, barbacoa, and more Tuesdays through Sundays. Breakfast is served on weekends-only.
Ten (Mostly) Recognizable ‘Repo Man’ Locations You Can Visit 40 Years Later
In mid-February, writer-director Alex Cox announced that he’s planning to follow up his 1984 cult flick Repo Man with an official sequel: Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer. Cox recently told IndieWire that the film will see the return of his main protagonist, Otto, who Emilio Estevez originally played, and the story will focus on the Internet and other modern-day technology. A new actor, Kiowa Gordon, is slated to play Otto, considering the character has aged only 90 minutes during his 40 years of interstellar travel.
Burglar Steals Safe From East Hollywood Mexican Restaurant, Runs Up $80,000 In Damages and Stolen Gear
In the early Monday morning hours of February 26th, Beto Mendez found his regional Mexican restaurant on Melrose Avenue in the East Hollywood area burglarized, vandalized, and mostly destroyed. The walls were spray painted, countertops and windows smashed, and his equipment and office looted, including his safe. This devastation couldn’t...
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