Jimmy Smits, left, Brad Gluckstein and Paul Rodriguez in the Conga Room, which will close Wednesday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles) For one more night, the papaya bar still beckons at the Conga Room in ...

Brad Gluckstein appears at the opening of the new Conga Room at L.A. Live on December 4 Credit: (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) The Conga Room has provided Los Angeles with Latin entertainment ...

Listening to the iconic and extremely catchy "Conga" song by Gloria Estefan was one of Leslie Grace's most enduring memories as a little girl growing up in Florida. Thirty-five years later, the star ...

Get your salsa on with our step-by-step tutorial When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The congas are a set of one to four long, floor- ...

Not that many people know that Marlon Brando was a huge tropical latin music fan. Herman Leonard, the great jazz photographer knew that, and he and Brando became close because they were both ...

On a recent Monday morning, as most fifth graders were studying math and English, a group of 10- and 11-year-olds at Knox Elementary School in South L.A. were learning something else: how to train and ...

First impression: The tantalizing smell of searing meat greeted us as we stepped inside the double storefront of this simply designed restaurant. With our olfactories at attention we dug into a menu ...

A true jazz giant, Ray Barretto, who died Friday at 76 in New Jersey, made his name playing conga drums on jazz and salsa records since the late 1950s. Today, he will be buried at Riverside Memorial ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band bring their show to Scottsdale Center ...

For one more night, the papaya bar still beckons at the Conga Room in downtown L.A. The yellow sculptural design from Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo — meant to resemble the tropical fruit split ...