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LAist Elina Shatkin 7/9/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 7/9/20 LA's 'Wet Markets' Could Be On The Chopping Block Also known as live animal markets, they fill a need for thousands of residents. City officials want to ban them but first, they need to figure out what "wet markets" are. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 5/15/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 5/15/20 6 Feet Back From Life: A Homeless Man's Photo Essay On Life During Coronavirus For people experiencing homelessness, COVID-19 is more of a lockout than a lockdown. Bumdog Torres shares what it's like to live outside during the pandemic. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 3/26/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 3/26/20 How Carnicerias, Liquor Stores, Tienditas And Latino Supermarkets Are Feeding Their Neighborhoods These mom-and-pop shops have play a key role keeping their shelves stocked and people fed. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 2/4/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 2/4/20 Crimes Against Hummus-manity: Or Why Most Hummus In LA Is So Terrible In a world of bastardized, barely edible supermarket hummus, what is truth? Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 1/14/20 LAist Elina Shatkin 1/14/20 The Best Café De Olla In Los Angeles — And Why You Need To Drink It At its most basic, café de olla is an old timey way of making instant coffee. It's also a ritual that nourishes the soul. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 11/29/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 11/29/19 The People Behind The Puppets At The New Bob Baker Marionette Theater At its new Highland Park home, the L.A. institution's string-pullers step out of the shadows. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 11/27/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 11/27/19 I Attended A Natural Disaster Dinner Party And It Made Me Feel Better About The Big One Your Twitter followers won't be around to dig you out of the debris. But your neighbors might. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 11/13/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 11/13/19 A Love Letter To The Lynwood Pizza Parlor That Raised Me The joint barely registers on the radar of most L.A. foodies but it inspires the sort of loyalty that most high-end restaurants would kill for. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 10/15/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 10/15/19 What Did People Eat On LA's Beaches 100 Years Ago? It was all about tamales, abalone and hot dogs. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 9/17/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 9/17/19 A Tlayuda Pop-Up Speaks The Language Of South LA's Indigenous Community When Odilia Romero isn't busy running Poncho's Tlayudas, she's helping interpret sometimes obscure languages for migrants in L.A. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 7/31/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 7/31/19 The Iconic Murals Of Millard Sheets Are Disappearing From LA Why do his stunning, historically themed works keep being displaced and destroyed? Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 7/10/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 7/10/19 For 50 Years, St. Elmo Village Has Been A Semi-Secret Creative Haven For Black Artists It just celebrated 50 years of art and activism. Can it survive another half-century? Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 7/5/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 7/5/19 Compton's First Ever Pride Festival Is This Weekend South L.A. residents wanted a free, grassroots Pride festival close to home. So they created their own. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 5/3/19 LAist Elina Shatkin 5/3/19 How Chinese Restaurants Shaped Tiki Culture In LA Here, in a paper-thin egg roll wrapper, is the tension at the heart of culture, cuisine and commerce in the U.S. Read More
LAist Elina Shatkin 12/10/18 LAist Elina Shatkin 12/10/18 The Bizarre Story Behind The Suicide Bombing Of A SoCal Cult On December 10, 1958, a blast in Box Canyon killed 10 people and decimated a religious sect. Why did two acolytes want to kill their guru? Read More
