[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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Sunday Taquitos! Art by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ivan Ehlers.
Plus Chinese-Jamaican cooking in Hollywood, a new torta ahogada specialist, and chef Daniel Patterson's return to fine-dining on Melrose.
Fairfax has Tyler the Creator's preppy emporium, breakfast burritos with smoked potatoes, a Guns N' Roses museum, legendary 3 a.m. pastrami, and one of L.A.'s last remaining newsstands. Plus a neighborhood history by artist Adam Villacin.
We are also exactly a month away from June 6th, when the Border Patrol arrived in Los Angeles and began the raids that terrorized so many around the country.
We hope this register offers a moment to remember the names and stories of the victims. For each one, we’ve included the backstory we were able to gather alongside the official account from government agencies.
Moving to California felt healing—and almost like entering "a new country," says Soy Nguyen. For the first time, she saw Vietnamese and Asian cultures openly embraced, a stark contrast to Florida.
