You just can't beat those Latin beats
Photo credit: Barbara Alper | Raul Jimenez dances with Monica Pau at Monday Night Salsa at the Allegria Hotel in Long Beach to live music by Mambo Loco. (Jan. 10, 2011)
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Monica Pal and Raul Jimenez are twirling around the wooden dance floor to a pulsing Latin beat.
The beat's supplied by Mambo Loco, a live four-piece dance band with pounding pair of conga drums.
"You can really feel the drums through the floor," says Pal, 27, a doctoral student from Baldwin. She met Jimenez, also 27, a carpenter from Freeport, when she asked him to dance bachata at another...
