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

Mariah Castañeda

Featured

She Grew Up Listening to Oldies in Huntington Park with Her Father, Now She’s Writing Music For Our Podcast

Against his better judgment, Nathan Solis continues to write for a living and sleeps along the Gold Line with his wife and daughter.

Nathan Solis

Politics

Homeless Residents Show Up to Vote In California’s Recall Election At Skid Row’s First-Ever ‘Voting Center’

Ural Garrett is an Inglewood native and graduate of Southern University And A&amp;M College. For over a decade, the content curator and social media strategist has worked alongside various brands and outlets including Complex, IGN, MTVNews, Oculus, Trigger Mix Reality, TechRadar, LA Weekly, and more.

Ural Garrett

Community

SoFi Stadium and Upcoming Clippers Arena Leads to Inglewood’s Controversial New City-Wide Parking Permit Program

Astrid is a Salvadoran-American poet and writer based in Los Angeles.

Astrid

Elisabetta Covizzi at the Watts Towers in Watts for LA Taco (Brian Feinzimer)

Meet the Woman In Charge of Conserving Every Single Inch of the Watts Towers, L.A.’s Most Iconic Landmark

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

Seafood

Mr. Ceviche Mann Is Introducing Ceviche To A Black L.A.

The L.A. Taco Voting Guide to Deciding Between Raman vs. Ryu and Mitchell vs. Wesson

Janette Villafana is an award-winning bilingual multimedia journalist. Her heart lies in community-based reporting, and her work is highly centered on showcasing and uplifting community voices, with a significant focus on the Latino community. She developed her beat at L.A. TACO, covering street vending communities in Los Angeles. Past work has been featured on NBC, LAist, Latino Rebels, and more. She is currently featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington in an exhibit titled “¡De última hora! Latinas Report Breaking News.”

Janette Villafana

How This Laid Off Dishwasher From Puebla Became DTLA’s ‘Queen of Tamales’

One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.

Hadley Tomicki

Tacos

These Top L.A. Taco Spots Are Still Delivering While You’re Staying Inside

Update: L.A.’s Oldest Skate Shop No Longer Shuttering After All…For Now.

How a Tenant Born and Raised in East Los Angeles Challenged Her Landlord and Helped Secure Housing Rights for 100,000 People

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