What are the best Mexican restaurants in Southern California?
That’s a question that may have popped up every now and then as you mulled your next meal. Well luckily enough, and with Cinco de Mayo right around the corner, the Times’ restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has picked out his top 14, so your weekend craving for tacos, avocados, margaritas and beyond won’t go unheeded.
Check out Gold’s full course here, or if the photos above make you as hungry as they made us, click through some of the choice restaurant’s offerings.
Photos: Mariah Tauger / For the Times, Paul Morse, Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times
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Sen. Joe Lieberman has introduced legislation that would make D.C. a state, decrease its land size, and rename it New Columbia. We’ve got a few other suggestions.
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Here are just a few of the positions Santa would need to fill to pull off Christmas.
* 46 international distribution centers, to allow Santa to reload as he crosses the globe. That means 400,000 workers for loading presents onto Santa’s sleigh.
* 60,000 workers to develop optimized flight plans and communicate with the FAA, secure flyover rights, etc.
* 7,000 people monitoring demand and tweaking his route in real time.
* 100 meteorologists to make sure Santa doesn’t fly into a blizzard.
* 40,000 people to help Santa clear customs.
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“The Sound of Music” debuted on Broadway 53 years ago today. This story (click to enlarge) appeared in The Times two days later, November 18, 1959.
Our favorite line (though there are many great ones to choose from!) is the one about reaping “garlands galore from the gala audience” — you don’t read much about “garlands galore” anymore, and that is a shame.
Bragging rights if you can pick out the little mistake in this story.
There will be at least four — and as many as six — new women senators headed to Washington in January.
A thick plume of smoke from an intense wildfire on the Greek island of Chios can be seen drifting southward over the island of Crete. (Photo: NASA via Rex Features / The Telegraph)
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