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Taco Bell Corp.

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Doritos Locos Tacos: A Visit to the Taco Bell HQ Test Kitchens Doritos Existentialism

    Since our first story on Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco, Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos Taste Like Broken Dreams, we've received an abundance of new information courtesy of the friendly people at Taco Bell Corporate. We were invited to the new Taco Bell HQ in Irvine to re-sample the Doritos Locos T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco vs. A Crunchy Taco and a Bag of Doritos

    "Consumers said that's more than just interesting, it's like 'where have you been my whole life,'" Taco Bell's Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer Brian Niccol told Forbes recently, about the public's reaction to the Doritos Locos Taco. This taco concoction is exactly what you might think it is: ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 5, 2012

    Our Tacos, Ourselves: How Southern California Reinvented the Taco

    How Southern California discovered, gave birth to, reinvented and loved the taco for more than a century

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    The Unhappiness Index: McDonald's Customers are Least Happy with Their Health Other Uncomfortable Insights Into Fast Food Choices

    Apparently, one can guess whether you are happy or unhappy with your health based on your decision to have chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A rather than from McDonald's. That is, according to the BIGinsight™ Monthly Consumer Survey, which ranked the happiness level of certain fast food customers o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    Marijuana-Like Compound in Your Brain Could be Magic Pill For Weight Loss: But Don't Reach For The Doritos Just Yet

    Oh boy. You stoners are going to love this one. Turns out the key to weight loss might be a marijuana-like chemical that already exists in your brain. While there are skinny weed advocates out there like Seth Rogen (after) and James Franco, consider all the Taco Bell you ate in the name of bud or t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Man Stabbed Over a Bag of Taco Bell Tacos and Harmonicas

    Playing a taco the way you play a harmonica just isn't possible. So maybe that's why a Florida man stabbed another man for allegedly trying to grab harmonicas instead of a bag of tacos from his car. Sheriff deputies in Sarasota County, Fla., said 52-year-old Bruce Richard Hood offered to give a man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Taco Bell Implicated in 10-State Salmonella Outbreak

    When there was a multistate outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis in October, the Centers for Disease Control would identify the culprit only as "Mexican-style, fast-food Restaurant Chain A." Turns out, that's longhand for Taco Bell. At the time, the CDC refused to name the restaurant chain, saying the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Top 10 Food-Related Lawsuits of 2011

    Taco BellTaco Bell gives thanks for being sued over the contents of its meat​A look at this year through the lens of the food-related lawsuits is like watching the first season of The Killing: an exercise in frustration, bewilderment, and, occasionally, excitement. From the mother who sued N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Yelping With Cormac: The Author of Blood Meridian Reviews Taco Bell

    Yelping with Cormac​At its best, Yelp help can help you find a lunch that won't ruin your day.  At its worse, the website is, if not a petri dish for extortion, a willful enabler of bad, whiney writers.  The first big problem is, according to a judge, no longer up for debate, but the second ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Das Racist, Danny Brown - The Roxy - 11-3-11

    Rebecca Haithcoat​Das Racist, Danny Brown The Roxy 11-3-11 Aural chaos characterized Das Racist's show last night. Also, "Tricks with Microphones." The NYC trio of Himanshu Suri (Heems), Victor Vazquez (Kool A.D.) and Ashok Kondabolu (Dap) had a great earworm in 2008, "Combination Pizza Hut a ... More >>

  • Music

    October 27, 2011

    Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

    Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as I.D.

    Ground beef is not a valid form of identification. Not in Martin County, not in Los Angeles, not anywhere. A Florida man learned this the hard way, when he handed a taco to police officers who asked for his I.D. This was after he had passed out in his car. While sitting in the drive-through lane o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Infographic: How Hot Is Fast Casual Dining?

    Flickr/stevendamron​You might think of fast casual dining spots such as Panera or Jason's Deli as places to go whenever you're feeling a little classier than Wendy's or Taco Bell, but the folks of FastCasual.com want you to know the fast casual segment is the fastest (and most casual?) growing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    5 Weird Halloween Food Costumes

    Halloween is only a few weeks away, meaning it's time to dry clean the old banana outfit or turn your bed sheet into a convincing ghost-like ensemble. But if those ideas are too easy or out-dated, check out these 5 Weird Halloween Food Costumes sure to make mouths water, or maybe just weird people o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Top 5 Westwood Dishes UCLA Grads Will Miss

    Flickr/Kyle StricklandIn-N-Out Double-Double​ With the mass exodus of thousands of UCLA graduates from their picturesque Westwood neighborhood -- picturesque if you've always envisioned a neighborhood where you'd search 30 minutes for a parking space before giving up, or if you've dreamed all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Taco Bell Drive-Thru Robbery Claims Life of Joshua Michael Huizar, 20-Year-Old Southern Californian

    Google MapsA young man was killed at this Taco Bell drive-thru.​Updated after the jump: Police say they have their man. There's a fast food killer on the loose in Southern California, and cops say he might have hit eight restaurants and convenience stores in the Inland Empire. The latest cri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Marijuana Bust-Alert iPhone App Prank in L.A.'s '420 Times' Dupes San Diego Columnist Tom Blair: There's Not an App For That

    420 TimesActually there's not an app for that.​It appears San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Tom Blair was duped by an April Fool's joke in L.A.'s own marijuana magazine the 420 Times. In a Monday column titled "What are these people smoking?" the journo blasts the Times for rolling out its "D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    What's in The Beef: Taco Bell President Gives Away "Secret Ingredients" On Video Amid Lawsuit

    Screenshot of Taco Bell gorditas ​ There's only so much thinking "outside the bun" you can do before wondering what's inside the burrito. That may have been the thought-process of California resident Amanda Obney before she filed a lawsuit against Taco Bell for false advertising. The class ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Super Bowl XLV: The V Best Least Annoying Food Commercials

    Guzzle & NoshSuper Bowl XLV as seen on television.​ Whether it was the angry Ewoks of middle earth sharing a Coke with a fire-breathing dragon or Adrien Brody crooning to bar full of weepy women (nice to see him finally bouncing back from that Oscar win), this year's bunch of Super Bowl spots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Taco Bell Beefs Up Response to Meat Lawsuit

    Malcolm Bedell/FromAwayExactly what is in that Taco Bell Crunchy Beef burrito?​ Taco Bell President Greg Creed told USA Today late Friday that his company is "retaining outside counsel" and is seriously considering a countersuit again the recent lawsuit that charges that his company's taco fil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Taco Bell: In a Beef Over Beef

    Lee Bennett/Flickr​ California resident Amanda Obney visited a local Taco Bell and bought herself a snack. We imagine that she ordered a brace of tacos, and upon contemplating her purchase--wee brown crumbles cupped in crunchy shells, topped with vivid orange shreds, watery lettuce, and the k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Das Racist: Are They Laughing with Us or at Us? (Exclusive Interview)

    Now you're hungry. Or grossed out. ​Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's p ... More >>

  • Music

    January 13, 2011

    Page Two: Music Roundup

    Now you're hungry. Or grossed out. ​Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

    -- Jamie Oliver turned down by L.A. school district. [Daily Dish] -- Grass Fed-Up. Or, a rant against foodies. (Hilarious.) [The New York Times] -- The Safe Drivers' Guide to Cupcake Calculation. [Alice Medrich] -- Do all cookbooks need photos? A poll. [MattBites] -- Justin Timberlake opens his ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 28, 2010

    Sex, Death and Pragmatism

    Bill Plympton's DIY cartoon cottage industry

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Happy National Taco Day 5 Very Fine Tacos

    Anne FishbeinArturo's puffy tacos​ Is it National Taco Day today? We regret to inform you, it is. There are e-cards for it and everything. At Del Taco, National Taco Day is probably as holy as the Feast of the Epiphany, but with more tacos. At Taco Bell - expect funny hats and line dancing. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    First/Last Bite: Taco Bell's New "Authentic-Style" Mexican Street Tacos

    N. Galuten(Left to right) Carnitas, Carne Asada, and Flame-Grilled Chicken Cantina Tacos from Taco Bell​ Sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes $1.49 is a total rip-off. When we heard that Taco Bell was launching their "authentic-style" Cantina Taco, we were struck with a masochist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    The Tower of Torta: ampm's Secret Menu

    Willy BlackmoreAdvertising ampm's Secret Menu​ We're used to finding our Mexican food in less-than-normal places: sold out of grocery carts, cooked in fly-by-night outdoor kitchens, served out of bicycle-mounted freezers. But the lexicon of this cuisine--tamales, huaraches, sopes, paletas, ra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Melancholy 3-D Ninja Kid Mopes Hard in New Daedelus Video

    Melancholy 3-D Ninja Kid Mopes Hard in New Daedelus Video

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/19-4/23

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Is this a cry for help? Very well, it is a cry for help."

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Top 10 Food-Related Onion Headlines

    The Onion, for those that don't know, is a satirical newspaper reporting fake stories on a wide range of worldly topics -- and often the best part about reading those stories is the headlines. In fact, it's precisely why following them on Twitter is so much fun ("Online University Cracks Down On Row ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Fast Food Silhouette

    This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of the silhouette of Bob's Big Boy in Downey, comes to you courtesy of photographer Chris Saulit. Would that all fast food icons were photographed against the backdrop of a California sunset. Our strip mall horizon can be downright beautiful. Imagine what Lotte Rein ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters

    -- Just can't take any more of Bret Favre? (Okay, wishful thinking.) Where to go to Avoid The Superbowl. [Grub Street] -- Food blogging from Taipei. [Potatomato] -- A goat terrorizes a gentleman's club. (Your old goat joke here ______.) [Eater LA] -- Brain to penis dining with Sinosoul ("yes, I a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Taco Franchise Says R.I.P. To Mr. Bell

    ​The founder of Taco Bell passed away over the weekend, and stomachs across the land were upset over the news. Glen W. Bell, Jr., 86, died Sunday night at his home in the exclusive San Diego County enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, the Irvine company announced. He joins the chain's chihuahua mascot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Taco Bell And The LAPD Go Way Back

    ​After we posted today about the death of Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell, whose first franchise went to a Los Angeles police officer in 1964, we heard from sources who indicated that there are deep roots between the company and Los Angeles Police Department cops. In fact, we're told, about fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Eat Like a Caveman, Party Like a Rock Star

    Like many of you who pushed away from the Christmas goose a little too late in the game, I have become obsessed with the feel-bad journalism that rolls around at this time every January, a roll call of groats, capon broth and certain death that is as dependable as a Lakers road loss to the Portland ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Fool's Gold & Mariah Carey - Love at First Screech (MP3)

    ​A handful of remixes of the Fool's Gold single "Surprise Hotel" have surfaced over the past couple of months, but so far none have managed to meet that track's funky soulfulness eye-to-eye. Well, leave it to Wallpaper, the Teddy Riley-loving beatsmith behind the viral megahit "Combination Piz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Awesome or Awful? The Battle of Milkquarious

    Awesome or Awful: The Battle of Milkquarious

  • LA Life

    September 10, 2009

    Don't Mix Tequila With Irish Stout

    Awesome or Awful: The Battle of Milkquarious

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    The Death of Gidget the Chihuahua: Taco Bell Dog Felled By Stroke

    Taco Bell/APAdios, GidgetAssociated Press reports that Gidget, the chihuahua that fronted an immensely popular series of Taco Bell TV ads, has died of a massive stroke, according to her handlers. She was 15. Although decried by some Latino groups for perpetuating cultural stereotypes, Gidget's cha ... More >>

  • LA Life

    June 4, 2009

    Muy Caliente Summer Edition

    Taco Bell/APAdios, GidgetAssociated Press reports that Gidget, the chihuahua that fronted an immensely popular series of Taco Bell TV ads, has died of a massive stroke, according to her handlers. She was 15. Although decried by some Latino groups for perpetuating cultural stereotypes, Gidget's cha ... More >>

  • LA Life

    March 12, 2009

    Thoughts on Arizona’s "Fucking Racist” Sheriff

    Taco Bell/APAdios, GidgetAssociated Press reports that Gidget, the chihuahua that fronted an immensely popular series of Taco Bell TV ads, has died of a massive stroke, according to her handlers. She was 15. Although decried by some Latino groups for perpetuating cultural stereotypes, Gidget's cha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    The Mermaid & Sportsmen's Lodge Remembered

    Two more vintage nightlife venues that helped define Southern California's quirkiness have closed or face possible extinction. L.A. Daily asked some longtime locals for their thoughts about Hermosa Beach's Mermaid bar and restaurant (whose lot is for sale), and Studio City's shuttered Sportsmen's Lo ... More >>

  • LA Life

    January 11, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Brown Pride

    Two more vintage nightlife venues that helped define Southern California's quirkiness have closed or face possible extinction. L.A. Daily asked some longtime locals for their thoughts about Hermosa Beach's Mermaid bar and restaurant (whose lot is for sale), and Studio City's shuttered Sportsmen's Lo ... More >>

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    January 19, 2006

    Great Cesar's Ghost

    The UFW has to give it up, and reinvent a culture of organizing

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    July 7, 2005

    The Six Dollar Man

    The UFW has to give it up, and reinvent a culture of organizing

  • Music

    June 12, 2003

    Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

    Edited by Kateri Butler

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    November 7, 2002

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Edited by Kateri Butler

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    June 24, 1999

    Talking Pictures

    A view from the Writers Guild conference

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    ?Que Paso, Gloria?

    A view from the Writers Guild conference

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