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 ...

The iconic L.A. nightclub the Conga Room closed its doors for a final time Wednesday night, but not before filling its walls with one last celebration of Latin music. Drink glasses clinked. Hands ...

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 ...

8:49 a.m. March 29, 2024: A previous version of this story said that singer-songwriter Blessd performed at the event. He did not. The article also said that the Conga Kids program has served 50,000 ...

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 ...