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One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.

Hadley Tomicki

Obituary

L.A.’s Streets Are Crying: Taqueros and Stars Pay Tribute to Vicente Fernandez, 1940-2021

Tacos

Shake Shack’s Founder Raises $27 Million For NYC Taquería In Hopes of Annihilating Chipotle and Taco Bell

Eddie Lin is an OG L.A. food writer who encourages everyone to eat chicken feet at least once. He has appeared on many shows, but his favorite appearance is when he and his girlfriend ate Chinese Viagra soup made of boa constrictor. Yum and POW!

Eddie Lin

Food

Medan Kitchen in the S.G.V. Is the Spot for Potently Delicious Home-Style Indonesian Food, Started By a 75-Year-Old ‘Auntie’

Urban Wilderness

Two Punks Trained a Bunch of Ducks to Visit Dee Dee Ramone’s Grave at Hollywood Forever and Perform ‘Quackskrieg Bop’

Capital & Main

Featured

Will L.A.’s 2028 Olympic Agreement Address Homelessness and Jobs?

Weed

California Cannabis Operators Are Protesting Yet Another Tax on Legal Weed Starting In 2022

Mariah Castañeda is a feisty multimedia journalist and social media editor.

Mariah Castañeda

Investigative Report

Longtime Highland Park Residents Remain Skeptical of York Park’s Safety After More Than 800 Gallons of Fuel Leaked Into the Soil It Was Built Over In the 80s and 90s

Bagel Drama Boils Over in Northeast L.A. Over Alleged Misquote About What Makes an ‘Authentic’ Bagel

Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; In 2023, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.

Lexis-Olivier Ray

Gadsden Flag In Grand Park Permanently Taken Down Following L.A. TACO Inquiry

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).

Javier Cabral

Taco Date Night: Long Beach’s ‘El Barrio Cantina’ Is the Spot for Flinstones-esque Costilla Asada and Coconut Negronis

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