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Featured

Headlines: California Might Decriminalize Possession of ‘Magic Mushrooms’ and Other ‘Natural’ Psychedelics

News

Update: Nurse Arrested For Property-Related Murder of Two Missing Brothers in Mexico’s Roma Norte Neighborhood

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

Events

15 Fun New Years Eve Parties In L.A. With Little Or Low Cover

For over a decade, Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin has been photographing the urban environment. His work blends elements of landscape, documentary, and street photography to present a side of the city life that’s foreign to the unfamiliar. The experience of growing up in Los Angeles is the foundation for his photo essays, sharing a perspective that is often missing from the mainstream narrative.

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Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin

Los Angeles

Historic South-Central In 2022 ~ Photo Essay

Alexis Zhou (she/her) is a freelance writer. Always down for hot pot, H Mart, and housing policy reforms.

Alexis Zhou

Food

The Six Best Szechuan Hot Pot Restaurants in L.A. (and the Proper Way of Eating It)

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

Headlines: LAPD Officer Charged With Distributing Explicit Images of His Wife: ‘My Own Husband Is a Predator’

History

Historic South-Central: Nine Things You Didn’t Know About the Neighborhood’s History

Update: Staff At Mexican Restaurant In Echo Park Accused of Telling Two Men Kissing ‘You Guys Can’t Do That Here’

Emily Holshouser is a local reporter covering mainly education, utilities, and public safety. She graduated from Cal State Northridge in 2021.

Emily Holshouser

Education

Mother of High School Girl Who Overdosed Files Potential Landmark Lawsuit Against LAUSD

Headlines: L.A. County Sheriff Allegedly Had Sex on Duty At Men’s Central Jail Parking Lot