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New York Times
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
And Just Like That … New York City Has Great Tacos
There's something I meant to tell you last week, but I chickened out: I'm a Californian by birth! I moved to the city after college, and though it's been several years, I've fallen for every Erewhon-coming-to-N.Y.C. prank, and still think of my hometown team when I turn down Doyers Street. But being a Californian occasionally comes in handy. For one thing, my taco radar is spot on. That's been especially useful this past year, when a host of taquerias seemed to suddenly appear, spawning ridiculously good Mexican restaurants all over the city. Finding respectable carnitas and barbacoa used to be a chore — now my friends debate which Brooklyn chefs make them best. It's enough to make a Californian cry tears of joy. Cramped New York kitchens give rise to all sorts of genius, spatially-aware cooking styles, like searing tortillas on an upside-down wok or baking bagels in a wood-fired pizza oven. At Wayne & Sons in the East Village, which is smaller than most studio apartments, the chef Oscar Hernandez warms his tortillas using a garden variety bagel toaster. Sit at the bar, which is also the kitchen — and watch them tumble over the conveyor belt. The house specialty is the hard shell beef taco. (The recipe, from Hernandez's family, has as much in common with Taco Bell as Una Pizza Napoletana does with Papa Johns.) His deeply seasoned picadillo needs little more than a zigzag of 'smoky sauce' — mayonnaise and chipotle adobo — but I can never resist the bear-shaped salsa bottles sitting on every table. For a night of Texas-size proportions, pair one with an order of queso-drenched armadillo cheese fries and an extra-strong margarita. (The menu wisely limits the cocktail to one per customer.) 221 Second Avenue, Suite A (East 14th Street), Manhattan Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Daily Mail
29-06-2025
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Cause of death revealed for soccer player, 13, found dead on roadside after his coach was arrested on murder charge
A 13-year-old soccer player found dead at the side of a road in a Los Angeles suburb passed away from acute alcohol poisoning, according to a new medical report. Oscar Omar Hernandez was found in the seaside town of Oxnard after going missing on March 30, and his coach Mario Garcia-Aquino, 43, was arrested and charged with one count of murder soon after. Separately, Garcia-Aquino was also charged with a felony count of assault with intent to commit a lewd act against a 16-year-old boy in February of 2024. At the time, no further details were known on the Hernandez's cause of death, but Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office have now revealed that he had alcohol poisoning. Hernandez was reported missing by family on March 30 after he 'failed to return home from visiting an acquaintance in Lancaster,' according to police. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Hernandez had boarded a Metrolink train to visit his soccer coach, 43-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino. Oscar's body was discovered on the side of the road in Oxnard near Leo Carrillo State Beach, Hochman said. 'These cases are tragic, and the Hernandez family, you have our deepest sympathy for a loss that words cannot even begin to describe,' Hochman said at a press release. 'Our role, though, is to bring justice to this family and to hold the person responsible for these brutal, heinous, unspeakable, unthinkable acts, hold them accountable and prosecute and punish them to the full extent of the law.' Garcia-Aquino could face the death penalty or life behind bars without the possibility of parole if convicted on the murder charge in addition to a potential six years in prison for the alleged assault. After the arrest in April, police were asking anyone with knowledge about the case to come forward. 'There's always a fear that there's more victims, and we want to make sure we account for everybody that's out there,' Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Monday. Luna stressed that immigration status will not be addressed by police for any forthcoming witness. 'If for some reason anybody fears coming forward, even as a youth or a family, because you may be here undocumented, we're not going to ask about that,' Luna said. 'Please. You need to come forward. 'We will assist you – whether it's our department, the Los Angeles Police Department, the LA County District Attorney's Office – any of us are going to wrap our arms around you and make sure that you get the appropriate services. 'We guide you the right way and we protect you as well.' Garcia-Aquino, a youth soccer coach in the Sylmar area, has no criminal record, according to Luna. Oscar's family did not address media at a press briefing, but his mother, Gladys, was heard crying out in Spanish: 'He didn't need to be treated like an animal. That was my son.'
CBS News
27-06-2025
- CBS News
Cause of death determined for 13-year-old allegedly killed by soccer coach
The Ventura County Medical Examiner determined the cause of death for the 13-year-old boy whose soccer coach has been charged with his murder to be alcohol poisoning. Oscar Omar Hernandez's body was discovered alongside a Ventura County road on April 2. While the medical examiner listed the manner of death as homicide, the cause of death was acute ethanol intoxication. The boy's soccer coach, Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43, is charged in his death as Hernandez was last seen leaving his Sun Valley home to meet Garcia-Aquino at his home in Lancaster. His family became concerned when the teen did not come home the next morning as planned. He was found dead in Oxnard five days later. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged Garcia-Aquino with murder, including special circumstances for lewd acts with a child. Garcia-Aquino is alleged to have killed the boy on March 28, two days before he was reported missing, according to the district attorney's office. Hernandez's family said they dropped the teen off at a San Fernando Valley Metrolink station the evening of March 28 so he could help his coach make soccer jerseys at his Lancaster home. According to the family, the two were introduced to each other through an after-school soccer program. "His soccer coach made soccer jerseys," Oscar's sister, Alejandra Hernandez said. "He had taken other soccer teammates to help him, and that's why my brother went." Family members called Oscar the same night that he left to check on him, but the coach answered the phone and said the boy couldn't answer because his hands were full of paint, Alejandra said. The family said the coach was expected to drive Oscar home the next morning, and after that time had passed, he told them that he had dropped the boy off in the afternoon. Calls to Oscar's phone went unanswered, but there was a response from the phone to a text, which said, "I'm going to a party," according to the family. According to Oscar's sister, a text from Oscar's phone to his family said that he was in North Hollywood and refused to be picked up at Whitsett Park. Those were the last texts relatives said they received from the 13-year-old's phone. They searched for Oscar throughout Saturday night but couldn't find him. The family called the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday morning to report Oscar missing. Detectives, with help from the FBI, discovered a body matching the description of the missing teen in the small woodland area near McGrath State Beach. Garcia-Aquino was arrested by LAPD officers before he was transferred into the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The soccer coach also faces child sexual abuse charges stemming from a 2022 case that the Los Angeles Police Department investigated. Garcia-Aquino pleaded not guilty on June 18 to the charge of murder, including special circumstances for lewd acts with a child
