Headlines: A New Local Publication Publishes a Tool to Uncover Your L.A. Landlord’s Dirty Secrets
Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash
Welcome to L.A. TACO’s daily news briefs, where we bring our loyal members, readers, and supporters the latest headlines about Los Angeles politics and culture. Stay informed and look closely.
— Carla Green offers critical tools for fighting your "shady landlord." The guide covers resources you need to uncover your landlord's past treacheries, including easy ways to check if your building should have rent-control protections and how to research their past legal cases. [L.A. Public Press]
—Venice: Demonstrators reportedly blocked traffic at Lincoln and Venice Boulevard on Sunday to protest the police killing of Keenan Anderson, who died of cardiac arrest a few hours after being restrained and shocked with a stun gun by officers at that location following a traffic collision. “While Keenan Anderson was being electrocuted by the LAPD, traffic just drove by as if his life did not matter... Now, everyone is going to stop. Everyone is stopping since we’re here,” said Rev. Mark Chase of Pasadena's All Saints Church. [KTLA]
—Beverly Crest: Three women were shot and killed around 2:30 am on Saturday in a parked car outside of a short-term rental property in L.A.'s Beverly Crest neighborhood, north of Beverly Hills. Four other individuals outside of the vehicle were also wounded by gunfire. The unidentified shooter or shooters remains at large. [ABC]
—Chile's 16-year-old rapper MC Millaray uses her music and performances to fight for the rights of the country's indigenous Mapuche. "Above all, she calls for the return of Mapuche ancestral lands, known as Wallmapu, which stretch from Chile’s Pacific seaboard and over the Andes to Argentina’s Atlantic coast." [NYT]
—Lisa Loring, the actress who portrayed Wednesday Adams in the original televised version of the Adams Family, died at 64 in Burbank from complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure. [THR]
—When L.A.'s most notorious gangster, Mickey Cohen, walked out of the hospital after taking two slugs to the shoulder in 1949, he went to a local Cadillac dealer to get a custom car that could stop a .38-cal armor-piercing shell. But Cohen never had a chance to put it to the test. [Hagerty]
Stay in touch
Sign up for our free newsletter
More from L.A. TACO
Spot Check! Caviar Cakes, Champurrado Pot de Creme, Tamal Ice Cream, and Free Elote From Becky G
You can also party with L.A.'s first Black women-owned dispensary, enjoy a Lebanese legend past midnight, and pair quesabirrias with funnel cakes.
The Seven Best Tacos Along Metro’s K Line, From Crenshaw to Inglewood
The K Line is Metro's newest light rail line that cruises through the heart of Black Los Angeles, from Nipsey Square to Leimert Park. The taco scene along this route is all about hustle, featuring some of the cities must under-the-radar community gems like a historic L.A. taquería with a killer red salsa, lightly crunchy "enchilada tacos," and so much more. Next stop: flavor.
Is Hollywood’s Walk of Fame The World’s Worst Tourist Attraction?
A local news station scanned Google, TikTok, and other online reviews to cherry-pick a handful that calls the Boulevard "grubby, slightly scary... dirty, unsafe" and "one of the worst tourist attractions on the planet." We weighed in on the subject.
The Eight Best Punk Bars and Venues in Los Angeles
This may be the last generation of beautifully grimy punk bars and venues in a city that is overdeveloping all of these counterculture community spaces into the post-gentrification abyss. Go and support by buying drinks at all these places to make sure they stick around for the next generation.
L.A.’s Best Secret Ecuadorian Restaurant Opens Weekends Only at This Wilshire Blvd. Cafe
On weekends,Cafe Fresco transforms into one of the rare places in the city to find seco de chivo, llapingachao, guatita, and other regional Ecuadorian eats.
