The Spanish Harlem Orchestra brought its irresistible salsa revival show to the Conga Room on Friday, reminding us how thrilling this music can be, especially in the hands of committed New Yorkers.

Celia Cruz may innovate on vinyl with such producers as Willie Chirino–even doing radical updates of such classics as “Drume Negrita” on her last CD–but when it comes to singing in the flesh, she is ...

Adrienne Bailon Houghton should release an album covering salsa classics because the girl can sing anything. The former Cheetah Girl jumped on stage to sing “Ese Hombre” during La India’s Mi ...

Famed Colombian singer Joe Arroyo, composer of such salsa classics as "La Rebelion" and "Echao pa'lante" and "Tania," died Tuesday after a monthlong hospitalization. He was 55. The singer, whose given ...

I almost broke my neck the other day, walking across the intersection of Third Avenue and 109th Street in Spanish Harlem—better known as El Barrio—to pick my daughter up from school. I whirled around ...

A tortilla chip being dipped in a bowl of tomato salsa - Drong/Getty Images Peanut butter and salsa might not sound like the filling for the next viral TikTok sandwich, but you do you if that's how ...

“What are those things?” a fellow shopper at the produce counter asked as I loaded tomatillos into a bag. The checkout kid was equally stumped. He rang up tamarinds twice before I finally convinced ...

Besides the humidity, the evening in Little Haiti was picturesque. Palm trees swayed, the sun set turned the sky into cotton-candy colors and hundreds of twentysomethings were gathered wearing ...