[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]ommy Gallegos is our tiny newsroom's unsung hero. When he's not carefully shipping all of our hoodies and snapbacks and making sure all of our new members feel the love when they open up our New Members Welcome Box, he is busy illustrating and tweaking our TacoMan mascot through the many situations L.A. Taco has had to evolve through. Working alongside Lexis-Olivier Ray, he created a comic to help our readers further understand the Andres Guardado case.
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I thought a lot about the ICE raids immensely,” says artist Acacia Marable. "And a lot about the unhoused people, ‘cause I mean, it's literally like this idea of this ugly thing that you don't want to be associated with your community or our country."
ICE agents continue terrorizing southern California, kidnapping many including a gardener taken from his work truck.
“At least you’ll have an exciting story to tell when you go back to school,” one federal agent told a detained 15-year-old child with special needs. The report includes three U.S. Citizens from the L.A. area, speaking out for the first time and a six-year-old child with autism kidnapped in Massachusetts.
Perfume for goths, elk burgers, ICE piñatas, graffiti books, and 18 other items that should get your gift-giving wheels turning.
Plus a new modern Indian restaurant with pork vindaloo croquettes and a breakfast spot for chicken katsu and waffles.
Banana leaf tamales, tamales filled with savory corn pudding, sweet tamales, and those that can only be described as "unique." Los Angeles really is the best U.S. city for tamal season.
