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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

Food

Los Dogis Is Officially Next-Level: Sinaloa-Style Hot Dogs Have Arrived on the Streets of Boyle Heights

Gustavo Arellano is the author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America” and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

Gustavo Arellano

Live Music

Concert Review ~ The Hollywood Bowl Was Too Small for Los Tigres del Norte — And the Crowd Too Performative

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

Los Angeles

How Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez Started the Chicano Civil Rights Movement from a Kitchen in Boyle Heights

Philip Iglauer covered all things Koreana for 15 years — foreign diplomats, kimchi, Samsung and, of course, North Korea — out of Seoul. After returning to his native Northeast Los Angeles in late 2016, he freelances on his hometown’s goings-on.

Philip Iglauer

News

Highland Park Rent-Strike at the Avenue 64 Apartments: ‘We Have No Other Place to Go’

Tacos

How to Tell You’re Eating a Fake Blue Corn Tortilla: Kernel of Truth Organics Has a Mission

Liz Ohanesian is a journalist covering arts and culture in Los Angeles.

Liz Ohanesian

‘Making the Things You Already Love A Little Differently’ ~ How Todo Verde Is Leading the Plant-Based Food Revolution

L.A. TACO STAFF

The Fetish of Authenticity ~ Gustavo Arellano on the Perils of ‘Cultural Appropriation’

Tune of the Day

Tune of the Day: ‘Mar Iguana’ Director Lorena Endara Explains How Power Rangers Helped Inspire the Visuals

History

When the Jewish Bakers of Boyle Heights Were Radical Socialists Instead of Trump Supporters

A Cold Email From a Food-Obsessed Teen: Why I Owe Everything to Jonathan Gold