It’s that time of year again, when L.A. TACO goes over the most memorable posts from the year. And damn, we can’t wait for this year to be finished, not sure about you guys.
So without further delay ...
One of our favorite posts in 2017 is “What Are the Really Real L.A. Movies,” a favorite-movie list compiled with interviews with some of our most faithful L.A. TACO contributors. Writer Tien Nguyen chose Set It Off, saying: “Her character [Cleo] solidified the link between Set It Off and Boyz n the Hood and, in the process, challenged the misogyny in so much of LA hip hop culture at the time.”
We published Where you From, a poem by a young Filipino poet named Eddy M. Gana Jr. “I’m from California/The state with a roadmap of memories, I feel connected.”
In the summer writer Chuck Morse delved into the recent history of an L.A. food icon, the Luna Sol Cafe. Operating in MacArthur Park between 1996 and 2003, Luna Sol was a horizontal worker-run collective kitchen, which Morse describes as one of few in California history.