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Tacos Sabrosos

Tacos Sabrosos

It’s 7:10 on a breezy Echo Park evening, and Wilson Alvarez is tossing out the first pitch as the Dodgers host the Astros at Chavez Ravine. On the other side of the hill from the stadium, the daylight dances, its final golden beams for this summer day

Lee Ving

Lee Ving

The bustling punk scene that sprouted in Los Angeles during the late 1970s was never short of characters, including, to name a few: Darby Crash, the would-be apocalyptic cult leader of the Germs and the Circle One sect; Claude Bessey, a.k.a. Kickboy Face, an itinerant French-born poet, singer of Catholic Discipline