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Raul Ortega: The Truck Stops Here

Erica Zora Wrightson
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The most remarkable clue that you have arrived at Mariscos Jalisco, a lonchera parked on Olympic Boulevard in Boyle Heights, is in the air. A few blocks away, the climate......
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Alice Shin: Curbing Our Appetite

Erica Zora Wrightson
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When Alice Shin's brother-in-law phoned her to say that he'd gotten his hands on a truck they could use to begin peddling tacos filled with Korean-style barbecued meats, as they'd......
Erika Nakamura and Amelia Posada; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Erika Nakamura and Amelia Posada: The Meat Is the Message

Erica Zora Wrightson
"I am six days away from becoming the mayor of this place," says Amelia Posada, "but I left my phone at home!" The co-owner of Lindy & Grundy Meats, the long-anticipated butcher shop on Fairfax, is seated next to her wife and business partner, Erika Nakamura, at Italian restaurant Terroni,......
Erika Nakamura and Amelia Posada; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Erika Nakamura and Amelia Posada: The Meat Is the Message

Erica Zora Wrightson
"I am six days away from becoming the mayor of this place," says Amelia Posada, "but I left my phone at home!" The co-owner of Lindy & Grundy Meats, the long-anticipated butcher shop on Fairfax, is seated next to her wife and business partner, Erika Nakamura, at Italian restaurant Terroni,......
Timur Bekbosunov

Timur Bekbosunov: The Reform Tenor

Erica Zora Wrightson
Ask Kazakhstan-born tenor (and occasional vaudevillian) Timur Bekbosunov about Achim Freyer's controversial staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle last year, and he will tell you it was completely misconstrued by Los Angeles. "He was an artist accused of shoving his ego at the opera," he says. "It was very organic with......
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LAX Media "Eat In" Brings Protesters Out

Erica Zora Wrightson
A small group of protesters gathered across the street from Patina in downtown Los Angeles this morning to express their discontent with the high-priced menus of the restaurants currently vying for a spot in the new at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) food court. Chefs and owners from more than......
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Live Review: Timur and the Dime Museum at the Central Library

Erica Zora Wrightson
In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bekbosunov, a tenor from Kazakhstan perform operatic versions......