Hollywood Archives ~ L.A. TACO https://lataco.com/category/neighborhoods/hollywood Celebrating the Taco Lifestyle in Los Angeles, CA Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:49:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://lede-admin.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/cropped-FAVICON.jpg?w=32 Hollywood Archives ~ L.A. TACO https://lataco.com/category/neighborhoods/hollywood 32 32 217520893 The Ultimate Guide to All the Day of the Dead Events in Los Angeles ~ 2023 https://lataco.com/day-of-the-dead-events-2023 Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:49:35 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152362 Here is how to make the most of this quickly fleeing Muertos season in Los Angelestitán. Including our own event featuring L.A.'s best taqueros at Hollywood Forever's Day of the Dead event.

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]]> 152362 How to Make a Proper Altar for Day of the Dead Right Now https://lataco.com/how-to-make-altar-for-day-of-the-dead https://lataco.com/how-to-make-altar-for-day-of-the-dead#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:15:00 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=95977 From your loved one's favorite dish to explaining the spiritual significance of cempasúchil flowers and copal incense, here is our trusty step-by-step guide to build a respectful altar for Dia de Muertos this season.

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]]> https://lede-admin.lataco.com/how-to-make-altar-for-day-of-the-dead/feed 1 95977 Spot Check! Discada In Cudahy, Korean-Venezuelan In Beverly Hills, and Basque Tacos In Brentwood https://lataco.com/persian-mexican-food Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:20 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152311 Regional Mexican food in L.A. just keeps getting better and better. In this week's spot check, we find a northern Mexican taquero bringing the celebrated discada tradition to southeast Los Angeles. Plus more, like where to find birria orecchiette!

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]]> 152311 The 69 Best Tacos In Los Angeles In 2023 https://lataco.com/69-best-tacos-in-la https://lataco.com/69-best-tacos-in-la#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=121283 Eating tacos in Los Angeles is a sport. Especially this year, when taco stands seemingly multiplied across every other city block. It’s the culmination of more regional styles getting the respect they deserve, immigrants who hustle, and street vending slowly becoming fully decriminalized. Birria is no longer just a special occasion dish; T.J.-style tacos continue […]

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]]> https://lede-admin.lataco.com/69-best-tacos-in-la/feed 14 121283 Exclusive: Top Film & TV Studios Spent Over $660 Billion on Stock Buybacks While Actors and Writers Live ‘Paycheck to Paycheck’ https://lataco.com/film-tv-studio-stock-buybacks Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152178 According to economist William Lazonick stock repurchasers like Apple could certainly use the tens of billions that they spend on buybacks to pay actors and screenwriters more. “The fact [is] they’re not paying them more,” and instead they’re making the rich richer.

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]]> 152178 Is Hollywood’s Walk of Fame The World’s Worst Tourist Attraction? https://lataco.com/is-the-walk-of-fame-the-worlds-worst-tourist-attraction Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:05:16 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151847 A local news station scanned Google, TikTok, and other online reviews to cherry-pick a handful that calls the Boulevard "grubby, slightly scary... dirty, unsafe" and "one of the worst tourist attractions on the planet." We weighed in on the subject.

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]]> 151847 The Eight Best Punk Bars and Venues in Los Angeles https://lataco.com/best-punk-bars-venues Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:58:59 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151822 This may be the last generation of beautifully grimy punk bars and venues in a city that is overdeveloping all of these counterculture community spaces into the post-gentrification abyss. Go and support by buying drinks at all these places to make sure they stick around for the next generation.

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]]> 151822 Spot Check: Colombian Desgranados In Echo Park, Mexican Wine Festival At Mírate, and Perverted Waffles in DTLA https://lataco.com/colombian-desgranados-dirty-waffles Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:41:03 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151765 Plus, a party highlighting pan-African cuisine, a new Taiwanese cookbook by an awarded local from the San Gabriel Valley, and a Little Saigon food festival that starts tonight! Welcome back to Spot Check!

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]]> 151765 This 24-Year-Old Latina Mortician Beautifies the Dead and Influences the Living https://lataco.com/latina-mortician-career-hollywood-influencer Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:44:53 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151760 Growing up in Arleta with a first-generation family from El Salvador, Berrios admits that her family only embraced her career choice two years ago, after she started to win awards like “Young Funeral Director of the Year.” The 24-year-old works as the licenced funeral director and embalmer at Hollywood Forever cemetery. As a young person born in peak Generation Z, she's documented her deathcare journey on TikTok and has accrued more than 43K followers on the platform. 

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]]> 151760 Womanizer-Killing Demons and Pulque: A Look Into Horror Nights’ Popular Latino-Inspired Maze https://lataco.com/horror-nights-latino-representation Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:47:01 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151716 What does it take to bring a culturally accurate "haunted house" to L.A.’s best Halloween attraction at Universal Studios? Hint: Diego Luna, Danny Trejo, and a morbid curiosity for the macabre side of Latin America’s pre-colonizer history.

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