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Showcasing all the local eateries and businesses in La Puente via @lapuenteeats on Instagram.

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Street Vending

Through Tears and Aguas Frescas, How This Street Vending Family Hustled Their Way Through the Pandemic

Multimedia journalist covering everything under the sun. 562 born and raised. News editor for Talon Marks.

Daniel Suarez

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Memo Torres is the Director of Engagement and multimedia journalist for the James Beard award-winning L.A. Taco. He is also the host of the Daily Memo and writes for Apple Maps’ ‘Where Memo Torres Eats in L.A.’ You can see him on Netflix&#8217;s Taco Chronicles and Pressure Cooker.  You can hear him on KCRW’s ‘Good Food’ occasionally. He was a finalist for the Ruben Salazar Award for Latino journalists and a former third-generation landscaper.

Memo Torres

Tacos

Taco Afterlife: Sister of Beloved Taquero Who Passed Away To Honor Him By Continuing His Pop-Up Dream

Ural Garrett is an Inglewood native and graduate of Southern University And A&amp;M College. For over a decade, the content curator and social media strategist has worked alongside various brands and outlets including Complex, IGN, MTVNews, Oculus, Trigger Mix Reality, TechRadar, LA Weekly, and more.

Ural Garrett

Politics

Culver City’s First Black City Councilman Phased Out Toxic Oil Fields in Inglewood, Now He Hopes to Earn California’s 30th State Senate

This Indigenous Mayan Chef Is Channeling His Ancestral Secrets to Serve L.A.’s Latest Contender for the Best Cochinita Pibil

Sean Maung

Featured

Photo Essay: The People and Murals of L.A.’s Little Bangladesh

Robert Jalón

Sports

The 19-Year-Old L.A Fútbol Star and UFW Activist Giving Back to His Hometown’s Farmworkers in Lompoc

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Melissa Mora Hidalgo was born in Montebello and grew up in the L.A./O.C. borderlands of East Whittier and La Habra. She holds a Ph. D. in Literature from UC San Diego and is the author of Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands (Headpress UK, 2016).

Melissa Mora Hidalgo

In Quickly Gentrifying Highland Park, a Bar That Highlights Women and Mexican-Owned Spirits

Professional punk and Editor-In-Chief for James Beard Award-winning L.A. TACO. Associate Producer for JBA-winning Las Crónicas Del Taco. Former restaurant scout for Jonathan Gold. Co-author of &#8220;Oaxaca: Home Cooking From the Heart of Mexico (2019, Abrams) and &#8220;Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling&#8221; (2023, Abrams).

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News

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