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Headlines: City Animal Shelters At Capacity; L.A. To Host World Cup 2026

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

Featured

How Much Crime Goes Unreported? Thousands of Police Departments, including LAPD, Failed To Report Data to FBI

Events

Weekend Events: Tahdig Tacos, Cheech’s Chicano Art Museum, LBC Taco Festival, and The First LGBTQ+ Mariachi Band

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Nortec Collective at the Levitt Pavilion. Photo courtesy of Levitt Pavilion.

Live Music

From Ska to Cumbia: Levitt LA Has Been Offering Free Concerts for the MacArthur Park Community for 15 Years

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Tina Vasquez is a journalist who covers immigration, reproductive injustice, food, labor, and culture. She is the editor-at-large at Prism, and she splits her time between Downey, CA and Winston Salem, NC.

Tina Vasquez

This Downey Pizza Parlor Is a Time Machine That Takes You Back to 1964

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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.

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Tacos

‘Banger Tacos’ Brings Filipino Flavors and Adobo Consomé to Skate Parks Across Southern California

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