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Elmer Argueta is born and raised in Huntington Park with Salvadoran and Guatemalan roots. You can find him in La Pacific or the Foos Gone Wild comment section.

Elmer Argueta

Film

Hometown Hero Made a Film Inspired By Airplane Dumping Fuel Over Children In SELA, and Now Its Premiering at Sundance

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

Investigative Report

LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Shot At Her Son 34 Times, It Took Two Years For Them To Confirm Who Killed Him

L.A. TACO STAFF

Los Angeles

Headlines To Know Today: Historic Lakers Dunks; Lincoln Heights Fights to Save Flat Top

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

This Popular Oaxacan Restaurant in Los Angeles Got Rid of All Its Tequila, But There’s a Catch

Michael is a native Angeleno and a photojournalist / professional basketball player. He most recently played in Japan.

Mike Ojo

Before Recent Wave of Train Cargo Thefts, Union Pacific Laid Off Unspecified Number of Its Railroad Police Force

News

Headlines to Know About Today: Suspect Sought in La Brea Store Murder; Marty Roberts R.I.P.

Featured

Visiting L.A.? Here Are the Ten Tacos You Need to Try, Mapped

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

Crime

South Bay Man Fatally Stabbed In KTown Trying to Break Up Fight

Headlines to Know About Today: Snoop Dogg’s Hot Dogs; California’s Best Neighborhood For Tacos

Cesar Hernandez is Lynwood&#8217;s second best export behind Weird Al, and a writer and podcaster. Illustration by Tommy Gallegos.

Cesar Hernandez

The guacamole is spread thick at Asadero El Poblano. Photo by Cesar Hernandez for L.A. TACO.

Tacos

This New Taquería Comes From a Family of Taqueros From Puebla That Introduced TJ-Style Tacos to LA

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