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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

Obituary

L.A. Rapper Kee Riches Killed In Compton Over The Weekend

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News

Palos Verdes Fault Line Could Create Quake ’45 Times’ Stronger Than ’94 Northridge

Headlines: California Passes New Laws Against Catalytic Converter Thieves; Lawyers Recommend $8 Million Settlement for Andres Guardado

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

Street Vending

BREAKING: SB 972, Which Will Finally Help Street Vendors Get Local Health Permits, Signed Into Law By Newsom

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

Tacos

Real Estate Company Says Four American Cities, Including Oklahoma City, Are Better Taco Cities Than L.A.

Headlines: L.A. Schools Will Start Stocking Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug After Recent Student Deaths; Ukraine Surf Team Competing in H.B.

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

This ‘Sonora-Style’ Trompo From Lennox Is Building a Street Taco Empire and Taking Over Los Angeles

Housing

Will L.A. Voters Choose to Tax All Property Sales Over $5 Million to Fund Affordable Housing This Fall?

Headlines: Local Sports Shop Owner Makes Hats Dedicated to L.A. Taquerías; Finding Baja’s ‘Ultimate Fish Taco’

Liz Sánchez

East Hollywood fridge in front of Santa Monica Grocery.

Community

What Happened to All Those Community Fridges That Popped Up In 2020 Offering Free Food?

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