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Celebrating the Taco Lifestyle in Los Angeles, CA

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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

A memorial in Monterey Park outside of police headquarters (Lexis-Olivier Ray for L.A. TACO)

Featured

Minutes Before Monterey Park Mass Shooting, SWAT Teams Were Relieved Of Duty

Update: It Took 5 Hours For Police to Warn The Public That Monterey Park Shooter Was Still On The Loose,  AP Reports

Chris is a halfie radio journalist from La Puente, CA. His work has aired on KPCC, KCRW, Marketplace, and Latino USA.

Chris Greenspon

Food

SGVegan: Five Essential Plant-Based Restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley

Melissa Mora Hidalgo was born in Montebello and grew up in the L.A./O.C. borderlands of East Whittier and La Habra. She holds a Ph. D. in Literature from UC San Diego and is the author of Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands (Headpress UK, 2016).

Melissa Mora Hidalgo

Watering Holes

A Family-Owned Gastropub in Monterey Park Is Putting an Asian L.A. Twist on Classic Burgers and Brew

Tacos

Is This the End of the Venice Room as Locals Know It? ~ Venerable Bar Is Sold After Generations in Monterey Park

RJ Vogt is a legal news reporter and freelance journalist in Los Angeles.

RJ Vogt

Why Halal Burmese Food in L.A. Matters to the ‘World’s Most Persecuted Minority’

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

Alhambra

Macau Street ~ Monterey Park

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