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Odilia Romero

Tacos

Tacos as Cultural Resistance: Oaxaca’s Mixe Indigenous Community Power L.A.’s Al Pastor Scene

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

Video

Love, Peace, and Taco Grease: Watch L.A.’s Top Two Taquerías Try Each Other’s Tacos (Video)

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News

Headlines: Benefits Package Includes $150 Monthly For Weed; Man Arrested For Avocado Theft. And Meth.

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

Sports

Families Displaced By Dodger Stadium Start Official Petition for Reparations and Other Demands

Taco Madness

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

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

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’

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