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Headlines: Popular Long Beach Taquero Gets Shut Down By a Police-Assisted Health Department; Dodgers Win 107 Games

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Headlines: Guadalajara Cartel Founder Released From Prison; Dodgers Clinch NL West Title

<p>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.</p>


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Beloved Independent Music Venue in Historic Filipinotown Officially Closing

<p>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).</p>


Melissa Mora Hidalgo

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Dr. Beer Butch: Meet the Former Punk Show Promoter From Historic Filipinotown Who Fought For L.A.’s Craft Breweries to Reopen

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Former Members of Jackass and Sublime Throw A ‘Demolition Party’ In A Vacant Home In Filipinotown

Historic Filipinotown

Headlines: Popular Long Beach Taquero Gets Shut Down By a Police-Assisted Health Department; Dodgers Win 107 Games

Headlines: Guadalajara Cartel Founder Released From Prison; Dodgers Clinch NL West Title

Beloved Independent Music Venue in Historic Filipinotown Officially Closing

Dr. Beer Butch: Meet the Former Punk Show Promoter From Historic Filipinotown Who Fought For L.A.’s Craft Breweries to Reopen

Former Members of Jackass and Sublime Throw A ‘Demolition Party’ In A Vacant Home In Filipinotown

Update: This Is What Happens in Los Angeles When a Pedestrian Gets Hit By a Car

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