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Capital & Main

Politics

Vons and Other Supermarkets Will Soon Start Replacing Their Delivery Drivers With Gig Service Contractors

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

News

Thousands of Face Masks and Gloves Are Washing up on L.A.’s Beaches

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

Update: Disney Used a Vacant L.A. Hospital as a Set for a Medical Drama as COVID-19 Cases in L.A. County Grew 625%

Featured

An Aerial Photo Essay of the Bumper-to-Bumper COVID-19 Testing at Dodger Stadium the Week Before Thanksgiving

A Jared Kushner-Connected Company Is Buying an L.A. Mall, Denying a Local Black Community Group From Making a Final Bid

Crime

He Checked Into a UCLA Hospital While Suffering From a Mental Illness, and a Sheriff Shot at Him Nine Times While Trying To Use the Restroom

An award-winning journalist covering ICE and immigration raids. Host of the Daily Memo. ‘Where Memo Torres Eats’ on Apple Maps. Seen on Netflix, occasionally on KCRW. 3rd-gen landscaper. Proud son of an immigrant. Golden Bear.

Memo Torres

After Burning Down, West L.A.’s OG Chili Burger Shop Is Back Open

Weed

Blacks and Latinos Still Account For Over 75 Percent Of Cannabis Arrests in L.A.

Residents Throw Bags of Soil at DOJ After Battery Plant in Southeast L.A. Is Allowed To Walk Away Without Cleaning up Its Lead Pollution

Glendale’s Famous Mini Kabob Is Sending Proceeds From Sales This Week to Armenian Aid as Deadly Conflict with Azerbaijan Worsens