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Food

The Love Inside The Latte: Cafe Niña Offers Coffee With Mexican Childhood Flavors

The Boyle Heights coffee spot serves coffee with homemade sweet flavors: dulce de leche, mazapán and arroz con leche, inspiring nostalgia for many

A smiling woman with brown skin tone and wearing a pink baseball hat hands coffee to someone from behind a counter.

Food

The Goat Birria Recipe That's Been Handed Down For Generations At East LA's Birrieria Chalio

The family-operated establishment on 1st Street has been serving up the Mexican dish of birria since the 1980s.

Three people with light brown skin tone stand or sit at the counter of a restaurant and look at the camera. Behind them looms a large kitchen area.

Food

At Pink And Boujee, People Come For The Color — And Stay For The Tacos

A hued twist to traditional Mexican fare brings success to a taquería on 1st Street owned and operated by long-time Boyle Heights resident Yesenia Castro.

A woman wearing a pink, striped Christmas sweater stand in the pink-framed doorway leading into her taqueria, which also features heavy doses of the color pink.

Civics & Democracy

The Fall Of José Huízar: How An Eastside Hero Rose To The Top And How It All Came Crashing Down

A years-long City Council corruption scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars stashed in liquor boxes, shadowy businessmen, and unrelenting developers comes to an end with a sentencing hearing this week.

A brown-skinned man shakes hands with people in a crowd during a campaign stop.

Arts & Entertainment

Celebrated Boyle Heights Music Shop To Shutter This Weekend

La Casa del Músico owners say high rent combined with low sales is driving closure of the brick-and-mortar business; will likely move it online

A red building as a mural of a skeleton playing a guitar with a flower on it. Sign reads: La Casa del Musico. TODO 60%

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