logo_fixed_outline

image (9)

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Explore

Footer - NEW

Legal Footer

Main - NEW

Mobile

Celebrating the Taco Lifestyle in Los Angeles, CA

la-taco-horizontal-1

L.A. TACO

Support L.A. TACO

support_snipe002 (1)

Jennifer Velez is a multi-media journalist covering news and culture in L.A.

Jennifer Velez

40409777241_8103854126_k

News

Sights and Sounds From L.A. Students Who Joined National Walkout Protesting Gun Violence

Editor 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).

3947BB49-A917-4493-B63D-1DDB12F8DF37 (1)

Javier Cabral

vegan_pan_dulce_shelf – 1

Food

This Old School Panaderia in Highland Park Is Making L.A.’s First Vegan Pan Dulce

Mike Sonksen aka Mike the PoeT is a 3rd-generation Los Angeles native. Poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour-guide, his latest book &#8220;Letters to My City&#8221; was just published by Writ Large Press. He teaches at Woodbury University.

Mike Sonksen

Jazmin Gonzalez and Emma Cortez of Feed South Central-Photo by Jonathan Pacheco Bell

Community

How This POC, Women-Led Group Is Taking a DIY Approach to Feeding South L.A.’s Homeless

Mariscos Jalisco

Tacos

This Is What It’s Like to Serve Tacos at Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s Party

street vendor protest

Featured

Seven Arrested at Women-Led Street Vendor Rally Against Brick-And-Mortar’s Veto Power

boycott-laweekly-1

Claremont

Former Staff and Freelancers of LA Weekly Have Launched a #BoycottLAWeekly Site

Joe Forney is a documentary photographer and a native of Los Angeles.

Joe Forney

8-Bike_Train_1

A Sad Flower in the Sand ~ a Photo Essay About Los Angeles

Jason McGahan is a two time LA Press Club award recipient and a former staff writer for LA Weekly.

Jason McGahan

venice_protest_ 2

Snapchat Is Pulling Out of Venice, and Gentrification Activists Are Overjoyed

Karla T. Vasquez is a food justice advocate and food historian. She is currently writing a Salvadoran cookbook.

Karla Vasquez

pupusas_grill

This L.A. Swap Meet Makes Mexican-Salvadoran Pupusas as Big as Your Head

Robert Chlala is a writer and Ph.D. Candidate at USC researching L.A.’s changing cannabis industry for more than five years, focusing on issues of race, equity, and urban politics and economics. He has been involved in the cannabis space long before it became “an industry.”

Los Angeles