Huntington Park

Events: The Earth Day Edition

BlueGreen Earth Party Golden Road is debuting its Heal the Bay IPA at the BlueGreen Earth Day Party in honor of the non-profit organization. The IPA is described as bright and citrus-forward. It will be available for sale in 16-ounce cans at select retailers like Whole Foods Markets by mid-June. WHA ... More >>

Nitrous Oxide Bust Announced By L.A. Sheriff's Department

Updated at the bottom with three arrests and details about how, authorities allege, the nitrous was distributed. First posted at 4:29 p.m. Nitrous oxide is in your dentists office, and sometimes it makes you feel good. But authorities say the gas is being abused in the rave and party scene. Today ... More >>

Gage Middle School Students in L.A. Suburb Fight Back with Kale and Yoga after Being Dubbed California's Fattest Kids

Huntington Park was dubbed the city with the fattest kids in California in 2012, which prompted students and faculty at heavily Latino Gage Middle School in Huntington Park to team up and try slim down the student body's bodies. After an article posted by L.A. Weekly and headlined "Huntington Park ... More >>

La Monarca Bakery Opens in Pasadena Rosca de Reyes Cake

Huntington Park-based La Monaco Bakery, which now has four locations in the L.A. area, debuted its newest branch in Pasadena today. The sprawling home-grown Mexican bakery, home to as wide an array of bollios, pan dulces, quiches, postres, tortas and any other Pan-Latin baked good you could hope fo ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

Marijuana Crackdown by Feds Targets ALL Downtown, Eagle Rock Pot Shops

See also: *Medical Weed's Stay of Execution in L.A. *How to Grow Weed in Los Angeles If Dispensaries Go Away. Federal authorities today moved to shut down all marijuana dispensaries in the downtown area and Eagle Rock as well as one in the city of Huntington Park. The move is part of an ongoing ef ... More >>

Ray Vega, Reported BF of Manager in Crazy Bank of America Robbery, Arrested

Police announced an arrest in that crazy Bank of America robbery in which a manager had a fake bomb strapped to her and claimed she had been kidnapped. Huntington Park police said in a statement this afternoon that the suspect they had in custody is Ray Vega, a 33-year-old from the city of Bell. An ... More >>

East L.A. Bank Robbery-Kidnapping an Inside Job?

It was one of the craziest crimes this summer: A Bank of America branch manager was kidnapped from her home in Huntington Park, held overnight, taken to her workplace with a fake bomb strapped to her body, and ordered to rob it Wednesday morning. Except that ... maybe those aren't all the facts. Th ... More >>

10 Best Paletas in Los Angeles

A paleta is, ostensibly, an ice pop. One made in-store and by hand, using recipes guarded like family jewels, in flavors carried over from Mexican favorites: ciruela pasa (prune), grosella (currant), guanabana (soursop), guayaba (guava), jamaica (hibiscus), nuez (walnut), pepino con chile (cucumbers ... More >>

Now Open: Tierra Mia Coffee Serving Specialty Coffee Horchata Frappes in Downtown

Compared to its other locations scattered throughout the South Bay, Tierra Mia's new Downtown's location at the base of the Bartlett Building at 7th and Spring Streets is small. "Yeah, this is Downtown-sized," owner Ulysses Romero says, noting that a few of Tierra Mia's comparatively spacious cafes ... More >>

Huntington Park Has the Fattest Kids in California; Manhattan Beach Has the Skinniest

As we're sure you've heard, childhood obesity levels are not doing so good in America. Though they've leveled off overall, low-income cities are still stuffing over 50 percent of their young with enough French fries to earn them an "obese" Post-It on their forehead. Fattest city in California? That ... More >>

See A Map of Korean Businesses Targeted During L.A. Riots 20 Years Ago

Leading up to the 20th anniversary of the L.A. Riots Sunday, the KoreAm Journal has an extraordinary oral history of events, including memories from students, cops and the Korean business owners victimized by the uprising. Of the more than 3,000 buildings burned to the ground, 1,867 of them were ow ... More >>

10 Best Coffee Shops in Los Angeles

T. NguyenCoffee Commissary​It used to be that you just needed one hand to count all the truly outstanding coffee shops in Los Angeles. Now, thanks to a recent surge of brave coffee geeks-turned-entrepreneurs, you need both hands to tick off all the stellar shops in the city, and maybe that is ... More >>

CLOSED: Pal Cabron (& Natura Oaxacan Juice Bar)

Guzzle & NoshOne of the paintings on the wall inside Pal Cabron.​ If you've driven past Pal Cabron in Koreatown this week and wondered why the doors are closed and the gate is locked, it's official: the Oaxacan cemita and clayuda shop has closed, along with its next-door neighbor Natura, a Oax ... More >>

Bill Gallegos: Cooling Dante's Inferno

Huntington Park High School Becomes Guinea Pig for Radical LAUSD Reform: 50 Percent of Teachers to Get the Boot

Huntington Park High School Alumni Association​Updated after the jump: Hundreds of Huntington High students walk the four miles to LAUSD headquarters to fight for their teachers. Here's where the reform debate gets sticky. Usually, teacher cuts can be blamed on the recession -- but these are ... More >>

School Reformer Yolie Flores Departs LAUSD to Fight From Outside

She forced through the most radical idea in recent lausd history. So why’s she leaving for a Bill Gates start-up?

Maywood Teen Admits to Dismembring Mother With Saw, Storing Body Parts in Freezer

Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentMaywood's Moises Meraz-Espinoza admitted to stuffing his mother in the freezer last Friday​Moises Meraz-Espinoza, a 19-year-old Latino male who was living at home in a small, southeast L.A. County town called Maywood -- in the same cluster of cities as sc ... More >>

Huntington Park Dog Stuck In Rabbit Hole For Four Hours; Urban Search-And-Rescue Team Swoops In For The Save

Mini or puppy? Yeah, we couldn't tell either​It was a wild night in the neighbor's yard for a miniature Siberian husky in Huntington Park. Local dreamer Petey and another unidentified mini Siberian ducked a fence on the 3700 block of Grand Avenue in Huntington Park at about 8 p.m. for a fanta ... More >>

Ten Great New Year's Brunches (for the Hungover and the Smugly Sober)

Cecconi'sCecconi's breakfast pizzette​ If the day after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year, then the day after New Year's Eve is the biggest hangover day of the year. And hangovers must be fed - and well. But since many restaurants shutter their doors on New Year's Day, and b ... More >>

La Monarca Soft Opens Today in Santa Monica

E. Shatkinmosaic of La Monarcha photos​ Long awaited La Monarca, which we previewed last month, soft-opened its new Santa Monica location today -- in plenty of time to pick up a slice or maybe a whole Rosca de Reyes for Dia de la Candelaria on February 2nd. The popular bakery already has outp ... More >>

Sneak Peek: La Monarca in Santa Monica

Guzzle & Nosh​ The bakery named after the butterfly is about take flight -- all the way from Huntington Park to Santa Monica. As soon as La Monarca receives final approval from the city and passes the last health department inspection -- a week or two, maybe three -- the popular Mexican baker ... More >>

American Apparel Gives Los Angeles Neighborhoods Their Own Nail Polish Colors: What Shade Is Your Community?

americanapparel.netThe color of downtown L.A?​So Los Angeles, tell us, what color are you? West Hollywood would be a rainbow of light, of course. And Compton? Red or blue. Beverly Hills? Gold. Maybe platinum. Huntington Park? The "tricolor" array of the Mexican flag. These are just guesses. B ... More >>

New Location

Same old Pal Cabron

First Bite: New Location, Same Old Pal Cabron

Jonagold apple, portions missing​The original Pal Cabron was one of those pop-culture miracles we have come to expect in Los Angeles, a Huntington Park sandwich shop specializing in overstuffed versions of Puebla's beloved cemitas, run by a young Oaxacan woman, Bricia Lopez, and splashed with ... More >>

Pal Cabron to Open in Former Guelaguetza at Normandie & 8th

If you've read Jonathan Gold's raves about cemita shop Pal Cabron but didn't feel like heading to Huntington Park only for a sandwich, things are looking up. Late next week, Pal Cabron will open its second location, this one in the original Guelaguetza space at 8th and Normandie in the heart of Ko ... More >>

Brothers Benny And Nissan Pirian Get One Year In Jail For Underpaying, Overworking Car Wash Employees

cleancarwashla.org​Brothers Benny and Nissan Pirian, owners of four Los Angeles area car washes, were each sentenced to one year behind bars and ordered to cough up $1.25 million in unpaid wages to 54 workers, according to La Opinion. The duo also received four years probation. All this came ... More >>

Jose A. Barajas, L.A. Homicide No. 99: Man Killed in Gang-Related Shooting in Watts

A Huntington Park man was killed in a gang-related shooting in Watts May 8. View Larger Map Jose A. Barajas, 30, was shot around 5:25 p.m. Saturday outside 10900 Hickory St., near the intersection of Hickory and 110th streets.

Beware the Dangerous Cemita

It might just bite back — in a good way

Los Alpes: an Icy Taste of Hell

And other paleta flavors

Ask Mr. Gold: An Icy Taste of Hell, and Other Paleta Flavors at Los Alpes

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: You seem to spend an awful lot of time tweeting about popsicles, many of them with flavors I have never contemplated in a popsicle before. While I know that the provenance of these things is probably something of a state sec ... More >>

EL PARIAN WILL GET YOUR GOAT

A kid-friendly restaurant that brings Guadalajara home.

Cuban Corn on the Cob, con Clown

Ask Mr. Gold: Cuban Corn on the Cob, Con Clown

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: Okay, so I just got back from New York, where I ate, for the first time in my life and hopefully not my last, this Cuban corn on the cob on a stick with cheese and spices and lime. Where in Los Angeles can I find this? --Dave, Wes ... More >>

Hey, Cabron! Clayudas, cemitas, cheladas and crushed grasshoppers in Huntington Park

And one awesome restroom

El Sinaloense: Let He Who Is Without Sinaloa

... get to Huntington Park

The Town the Law Forgot

An L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style politics

Donations, Not Payments

And what's not in a name

Feb. 9, 2007

L.A.’s 20 Best Italian Restaurants by Jonathan Gold, Separated at Birth by Steven Leigh Morris and The Bastard Question by Ernest Hardy

Name Game in Huntington Park

Records show that rising star Mayor John Noguez is really Juan Rodriguez

Echo Park Is All Right With Me

South L.A.

Jan Perry, District 9 City Council Candidate

Chicken Madness

The Erotic Arts

Troubled Solution

Calls to halt cleanup at William Mead go unheeded

Barrio Logic

Immigration will revitalize Fortress L.A.

She Conchs to Stupor

Honduran seafood chowder on West Adams