This week L.A. Taco went to the Los Angeles Zine Fest, one of the biggest festivals celebrating indy zine culture.

This week on the podcast, we take you to LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles for Taco Madness, the 10th annual taco lifestyle food festival.

From a field of 32, we are now down to our top four taquerias of 2019. This week on the podcast, we try tacos from all four finalists and talk to the people behind the hottest tacos in L.A. right now.

This week, we talk to the young, exciting chefs making a name for themselves at L.A.'s preeminent 'food open mic' night Chinatown AfterDark.

Crenshaw rapper Nipsey Hussle spent his entire adult life building a movement to "buy back" his hood. But the native of the Rolling 60s was gunned down senselessly on Sunday, in a case that has shaken Los Angeles. In this special episode of the LA Taco Podcast, we hear from members of his community, and also from future 'Nipsey Hussles' who represent all over Los Angeles: they are artist entrepreneurs, like young Kee Riches ... Plus, a recap of the Latin Food Fest, with Cesar Hernandez.

In this episode, Daniel sits down with Tien Nguyen and Katherine Spiers to chat about the second edition of the Rogue 99. The editors discuss the inspirations and themes to the dining list, and discuss it all: The Serving Spoon, the San Pedro Fish Market, and the significance of places like Sqirl and Musso & Franks. Plus, the News, and some L.A. Taco housekeeping business!

This week we take a journey to the heart of Mexico to try pulque and break down how it's made. We also take you on a special walk-through with photographer Rafael Cardenas of his exhibit “Landscapes and Land Dwellers,” at LA Plaza in downtown L.A.

We take a delicious journey all over Los Angeles eating burritos at Sr. Cliff's in Compton, the Corner Cottage in Burbank, Tirsa's in Chinatown, and Huge Tree Pastry in the San Gabriel Valley.

This week on the podcast, we talk to women waiting in line to get a free signed poster of "Roma" star Yalitza Aparicio by artist Ernesto Yerena about the issues of racism and classism that the film has brought forth. We also dove deep into the making of the L.A. Taco Yearbook with the designer, Valerie J. Bower.

This week, we went to Koreatown to try the mole fries at Macheen's latest pop-up. We also went to talk to homeless Angelenos facing rain and city sweeps. And we sat down with Jared Cowan to discuss the many L.A. filming locations of the iconic bank-heist thriller 'Heat.'