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Tiffany Lauren is a Los Angeles native, NYU alum, and lover of tacos and mezcal. Her work has also been featured in Latina Magazine.

Tiffany Lauren

‘Someone’s Gotta Do It’: A Day in the Life of an LAUSD Custodian

Christian Letourneau is a cook, writer, and ersatz mariner based in Los Angeles.

Christian Letourneau

What Does It Take to Keep a Food Business Open in Skid Row? A Day in the Life of Five Entrepreneurs

Lisa Kwon is a writer born, raised, and currently living in Koreatown. She will talk your ear off about Korean coffee culture and the dreadful effects of Los Angeles’ palm tree fetishism.

Lisa Kwon

Featured

(UPDATE) A Changing Koreatown: After 34 Years as a Community Hub, Chong’s Sesame Oil Is Being Forced to Stop Milling on 8th Street

A queer Peruana who sends love poems by time travel to Alejandra Pizarnik. She performs music and poems as Cusi Coyllur, teaches yoga, and writes about self-care for mind obstacles on her blog The Strange is Beautiful.

Shannen Roberts

Queer Latin Dance Classes Hidden in a Highland Park Garage Are Shaking Up Gender Roles

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

News

(Update) Hundreds of Illegal Sidewalk Planters Are Still Displacing the Homeless in L.A., Six Months After the City Council Said They Would Investigate

I am a first-generation Oaxa-Californian raised in Venice Beach. Bike powered and car-free, I am an activist that will take you up on a ride.

Areli Morales

Read This Before Celebrating Día de Muertos This Year. Signed, a Zapotecan-American

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).

Melissa Mora Hidalgo

How the Youth Are Shifting the Conservative Values of an L.A. Suburb Known for Nixon with Its First-Ever ‘Whittier Pride’ Festival

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

Samuel Ribakoff

Why Are Families in Boyle Heights and Southeast L.A. Still Being Poisoned by Lead? Battery Recycling Plant Leaves Behind ‘a Chernobyl-Level Event’ (Update)

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

‘Little Tijuana:’ Drama Erupts at Neighborhood Council Meeting over Backlash to Street Vendors in NELA

Everything We Know About Ricardo Diaz’s Whittier Brewing Company and His Seven Food Stalls at Poet Gardens Opening This Fall, the L.A. Taco Exclusive