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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE SIGHT OF 50,000 PEOPLE shimmying to a silly pop tune in the hallowed House That Ruth Built means one of two things. Either the apocalypse has indeed arrived, or it’s just another in a long line of ...

WOODLAND HILLS>> Taye Sangkhae and Vanessa Freigher may have been the shortest dance pair rehearsing at their school Tuesday for the Conga Kids Dance Championship at L.A. Live on Wednesday. But these ...

At the new Conga Room -- call it Version 2.0 -- the guiding philosophy seems to be the opposite of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s famous dictum that “less is more.” At the revamped, relocated incarnation ...

While known for its Nordic heritage (Skol, Vikings!), Minnesota also has a strong Latin community that has changed the state's food, drink and dance culture forever. And we're all the better for it.