It all began in 1993 with salsa classes on Monday and Wednesday nights at the spacious and charmingly down-at-the-heels Blue Banquet Hall. By now the place is packed four nights a week, and Salsa Lovers is a huge enterprise that has expanded to two more locations. But the West Miami-Dade scene has a festive, nightclubby scene all its own, and it just keeps getting hotter. Some people skip the classes and instead hang out, flirt or practice moves with a partner. Between classes, the DJ spins a ‘practice song’, and a gigantic circle of couples fills the entire main dance floor. All this for $7.
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