Brazilians know how to party, and the state of Bahia in eastern Brazil has a reputation for making a very big deal when Carnival comes around. You could get a head start on that winter festival by ...

Balé Folclórico da Bahia aims to give an authentic taste of Afro-Brazilian history and culture with every high kick and undulation that unfolds onstage. Using drumming and religious chanting as part ...

Couples dance at Stud Country, a queer line dancing night at Club Bahia in Echo Park. Subverting heteronormative stereotypes that often come with the country-western fan base and community, the night ...

It wasn”t until he was 16 years old that Walson Botelho of Salvador, Brazil, first saw a traditional performance of folkloric Afro-Brazilian dance. A friend from out of town wanted to experience the ...

Growing up in a working-class section of Jersey City, Cynthia Renta learned how to negotiate between many colliding worlds: the Cuban crowd she hung out with in Union City; her fellow Puerto Ricans ...

Brandon Lavoie always wondered about Club Bahia. The Latin music venue, on the southeastern end of Sunset Boulevard at the juncture of downtown and Chinatown, stood out for its neon-airbrushed murals ...