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Daily Memo: ICE Waits Inside a Glendale Hospital to Arrest a Patient and More

Protests return today, ICE was all over Hollywood, Inglewood, and the South Bay, and a closer look at the Declaration of Independence today.

July 4, 2025

ICE Had to Take Her to E.R. After Detaining Her, And Now They Wait Outside to Re-Detain Her

Family and friends are rallying to protect the victim from detainment.

July 4, 2025

ICE Is Staging on Terminal Island, Where Japanese Americans Were Once Abducted

Protesters are gathering from dawn until dusk at the Japanese Fishing Village Memorial today, a San Pedro monument built to honor the local community of Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed by the government under Executive Order 9066.

July 4, 2025

Daily Memo: We’re Starting to Hear From The Children and More

ICE continues their raids adding tree trimmers to their list of targets. The LAPD will finally verify the identify of agents. We also start hearing from the children of immigrants.

July 3, 2025

The 10 Best Meat Markets and Carnicerías in Los Angeles

If you do participate in any grilling this 4th of July weekend, shop local, and we'll leave you with some wise words from L.A. TACO OG Erick Galindo, who said: "Carne asada isn’t just food. It’s a ritual. It’s resistance."

Weekend Eats: Chicago-Style Hot Dogs and Wild Pita Sandwiches For CHIRLA

Plus liquid waffles from an acclaimed chef, Himalayan dumplings covered in Cheetos dust, and a Japanese cafe by day that becomes a Japanese speakeasy at night.

July 3, 2025

I Was High at Noma When Rene Redzepi Told Me He Was Opening In L.A.

I couldn’t process that the scoop of a lifetime before he publicized it was hitting my ears, as an L.A.-raised food-obsessed person, and I was trying my best to “play it cool.” While we can focus on the optics of opening a pop-up fine dining restaurant during an I.C.E. siege that will be inaccessible to too many, Noma’s arrival in Los Angeles is a monumental event, as it’s not just any fine dining restaurant—it’s the fine dining restaurant that redefined culinary innovation globally, raising foraging and hyper-local ingredients to an art form. 

Daily Memo: Feds Drag Men From Trucks and Sidewalks, Backlash Against Home Depot, Lawsuits are Coming and More

ICE raids continue as people are dragged from the streets and out of their work trucks and lawsuits have started against the Federal Government.

July 3, 2025

How Honduras’ Kitchen Became A Beacon Of Resilience In Huntington Park

Like J. Gold’s culinary prose, the food at Honduras’ Kitchen still slaps—like a good punta track pulsing through a crowded dance floor at La Cita. Their pollo chuco, a crown jewel of Honduran street fare—legs and thighs fried to a shattering crisp, yet impossibly juicy within, as if the meat has been seasoned not just with salt and citrus but with the essence of ancient Maya itself.

July 2, 2025

The Home Depot Boycott Is What You Think It’s About, But Also Much More

While L.A. activists accuse the home improvement retailer of being complicit in immigration raids at its stores, a nationwide boycott is being called to "stop funding the systems that don't serve us," and focus on small independent vendors instead.

July 2, 2025