Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the Mambo Room Cultural Dance & Event Center is closing its doors at the end of the month, the heart and soul of the small ...

“They were doin’ the mambo. What the heck is a mambo?” came across the space of my office. I listen to “oldies” to open up the right side of my mind for creativity as I write. Those lyrics and the ...

FOR A fast dance, the mambo took a slow boat to New York. But once it arrived here in 1946, almost a decade after the Lopez brothers introduced it in Cuba, the only question for local dancers was how ...

From 1974 to the early 1980s, disco ruled the clubs. But in the late 1940s and 1950s, the dance that was significantly more pervasive and influential was the mambo. From the start, the mambo's ...

When the band Machito and His Afro-Cubans “make a brand-new sound called Latin jazz” in 1940, everyone in New York City dances to it—Italian people such as Millie, and Puerto Rican folks like Pedro, ...

The all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance’s high art and sillier side When the curtain goes up here in east London, just across town ...

From Cuba to the Catskills, the mid-20th century saw the rise of an improbable partnership between American Jews and the mambo. And with its popularity, a Yiddish-inspired term entered the lexicon to ...

A typically manic episode of the iconic '50s TV show The Honeymooners has Jackie Gleason's embattled everyman Ralph Kramden coming home from work to find his wife Alice, along with several other wives ...

While the Mambo Room Cultural Dance & Event Center is closing its doors at the end of the month, the heart and soul of the small business cannot be stopped. Kianda Fiske, owner of the studio on 21st ...