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DAILY MEMO: L.A. and Long Beach Rapid Responders Unite With Santa Ana to Sound Alarm Over Raids

It's a game of strategies. Border Patrol takes a new approach, and rapid responders adapt. This time, the responders are backing each other up. The target was in Santa Ana, where Border Patrol focused their attention on the elderly at bus stops, grocery stores, and one with a cane.

Weekend Eats: A Dark Downtown Distillery With Draft Cocktail Trees and Perfect Beignets

Plus Japanese pastries, all-you-can-eat dumplings, and a party to benefit a local rapid response network.

City of Los Angeles Honors Tribal Firefighters at City Hall Gallery, While Adopting Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

The opening of an all-Native group art exhibition inside L.A. City Hall was filled with heartfelt thanks and celebrations from First Nations members and city council members alike.

Ten L.A. Restaurants Where Toddlers Are Welcome, From Casual to Fine Dining

L.A.'s insane food scene isn't reserved only for adults. If parents can't take their kids out to eat without judgement, we risk losing the messy, joyful humanity that makes sharing a meal special in the first place.

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DAILY MEMO: From Saturday Through Veterans’ Day, at Least 20 People Were Kidnapped in More Than 40 Raids

If you still think the immigration raids aren’t as bad, you’re not paying attention, because although even one raid is bad enough, at least 20 people were taken in more than 40 attempted raids from Saturday through Tuesday, Veterans Day.

This DIY Underground Art Gallery Fights to Survive In a Changing Neighborhood

“I don't ever want to be a part of the art gallery industrial complex that just gentrifies neighborhoods and commodifies things,” Superchief's co-founder and owner Bill Dunleavy says.

ICE Agent Pulls Gun on Santa Ana Observer, As Police Watch and Do Nothing

A fed directly aimed his gun at an unarmed woman in Santa Ana on Sunday, continuing ICE's violent tirade against L.A. residents.

Free L.A.! Support the Fearless Reporting That Los Angeles Deserves

Los Angeles deserves strong, truly independent local media made by and for the people who actually live, work, and raise families here. Not news sponsored by Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and other mega-corporations.

Gardena’s Belizean Hub Has Orange Walk Tacos, Legendary Soca, and The Heart of Its Community

For Belizeans in Los Angeles, the Blue Hole is a reminder that our culture still has a seat at the table.

“They Took My Mom. Then They Took My Dad and Uncle,” Oxnard ICE Raids Through The Eyes of 16-Year-Old Boy

A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S. 

Sunday Taquitos #1: Batter Up!

Introducing the first-ever edition of our Sunday cartoons: Sunday Taquitos! Art by Ivan Ehlers.

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