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Philip Iglauer covered all things Koreana for 15 years — foreign diplomats, kimchi, Samsung and, of course, North Korea — out of Seoul. After returning to his native Northeast Los Angeles in late 2016, he freelances on his hometown’s goings-on.

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Meth Dealers Tried and Failed to Disguise Drugs as Aztec Art

Gustavo Arellano is the author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America” and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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Northgate Supermarket to Turn Historic Downtown Santa Ana Location Into ‘High Quality’ Apartments

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The Fetish of Authenticity ~ Gustavo Arellano on the Perils of ‘Cultural Appropriation’

Erick Galindo is a contributing Editor to L.A. TACO. He writes the Mis Ángeles column for LAist/KPCC and has written essays on food and culture for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

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Death of a Godfather: Peter ‘Sana’ Ojeda Reshaped the Mexican Mafia and Paved the Way for SoCal’s Gentrification

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Can Tacos Gavilan Break the Losing Streak of L.A. Mexican Food Chains in Orange County?

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Welcome to the World of Weed Corridos, or ‘Corridos Verdes’

Robert Chlala is a writer and Ph.D. Candidate at USC researching L.A.’s changing cannabis industry for more than five years, focusing on issues of race, equity, and urban politics and economics. He has been involved in the cannabis space long before it became “an industry.”

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Cannabis City: No One Can Technically Buy ‘Legal’ Weed in L.A. Today

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Applesauce: The Photo show opens May 7th @ As Issued

Scouring the brick jungles of Los Angeles with my arsenal of cameras. In my adventures I am photographing anything that piques my interest.

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