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Taco Madness

Taco Madness 2022: Congrats to Our First Back-to-Back Champ, Villa’s Tacos! Come Celebrate at Our Live Event!

News

Headlines: Kendrick Lamar Drops New Song; 10 Bands Unite For “Punk Vs. Putin”

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

Three Dead in Downtown From Suspected Fentanyl Poisoning, L.A. To Hand Out 50,000 Boxes of NARCAN

Julie Wolfson is a writer and arts educator. She travels around L.A. and all over the world writing stories about design, architecture, culture and culinary arts.

Julie Wolfson

Drink

Making Mom and Dad Proud: Two Brothers From Chihuahua Open a Coffee Bar Steps Away From ‘Los Callejones’ In DTLA

Flight to LAX Delayed Over South Korean DJ’s ‘F*ck You’ Pants, Forcing Her to Take Them Off Before Boarding

Headlines: Officials Seek Forfeiture of $63 Million L.A. Mansion; Local Moms Talk About ‘Parenting While High’

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

Featured

Five Mexican-Inspired Pizzas Around L.A. and (Long Beach) to Order for Cinco de Mayo

Events

Weekend Events ~ Cinco de Gringo, Avocado Toast Tacos, and Mariachi For Mama

Headlines: L.A. Mountain Lions Becoming “Seriously Inbred;” CHP Officers Kill Pedestrian on 105 Freeway

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

Real Estate Con Artist Cheats $6 Million Out Of Hundreds Of Victims Through Fake Open House Scheme

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