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Cesar Hernandez is Lynwood&#8217;s second best export behind Weird Al, and a writer and podcaster. Illustration by Tommy Gallegos.

Cesar Hernandez

Food

What We Ate This Week: A ‘Baja’-Style Fried Chicken Sandwich, Limit 20

Daniel Hernandez is editor emeritus of LA Taco, serving 2017-2019. He is currently a staff writer for the L.A. Times. He is former Mexico bureau chief for VICE News, and former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly. Daniel is author of the book &#8220;Down &amp; Delirious in Mexico City.&#8221;

Daniel Hernandez

Politics

‘Necesitamos Incluir’ ~ Ranking the Awkward Spanish in the First 2020 Democratic Primary Debate

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

Watering Holes

Micheladas Mean Summer in Los Angeles ~ 19 Micheladas to Drink in 2019

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‘They’ve Just Gone Bonkers’: Tenants Welcome Rent-Control Vote in Booming Inglewood

Sam Ribakoff is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker from Long Beach, CA.

Samuel Ribakoff

Homelessness

Facing Mass Eviction, Hundreds of Tenants in Chinatown Are Fighting Back in Renters Struggle

Mariah Castañeda is a feisty multimedia journalist and social media editor.

Mariah Castañeda

Events

Donut Festival, Jazz, Love Thyself, and Mexicali Pop-up ~ GTFO LA!

Rudy Mondragón is a doctoral researcher in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at UCLA.

Rudy Mondragón

Sports

Andy Ruiz is ‘Destroyer’ and Disrupter in Boxing, Fatphobia

Erick Galindo is an award-winning writer, director, and journalist from Southeast L.A. His work spans TV, film, podcasts, and essays that explore the intersection of identity, culture, and chaos in Los Angeles.

Erick Galindo

The Homeless Can Now Hold Onto More Property on the Streets of Skid Row

Ezra Salkin is a writer and artist from the East Coast and is personally responsible for overcrowding L.A.

Ezra Salkin

Los Angeles

This Squatting Comedy Show Happens in Shuttered Venue Parking Lots in Honor of Meltdown Comics

Tacos

Rising Stars of TJ-Style Tacos 1986 Are Opening a Store in Downtown

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