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Vendors at A Taste of Nations Food Festival in Portland include Hellenic Kitchen and Burundi Star Coffee, among others.

On August 24, 1973, 40,000 salsa fans (a record-breaking crowd at the time for a Latin music event) eagerly piled into New York’s Yankee Stadium to watch some of the world’s most influential artists share the stage. But the Fania All Stars—a collective that included such legends as Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colon, Ray Barretto, and Héctor Lavoe—was eager to highlight its versatility by performing not just Latin hits, but also soul and rock hits from the day.

Leon Gast, Oscar-winning director of the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ documentary When We Were Kings – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Patrick Downs/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Leon Gast in 1997 - Patrick Downs/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Leon Gast, who has died aged 85, was an American filmmaker best known for his documentary When We Were Kings about the “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974; the two decades it took Gast to bring his footage of the fight to the screen were vindicated when the film triumphed at...

Johnny Pacheco’s recent passing rocked the Latin music community. Without him, salsa would never have coalesced, been codified, and spread throughout the

Print If the New York salsa scene were its own galaxy — a glittering cluster where artists from across the Caribbean and the United States orbited around one another in a feverish dance — the late Johnny Pacheco was the gravitational pull that held them together. Pacheco, the famed bandleader, flutist, percussionist and co-founder of the groundbreaking salsa label Fania Records, died Monday at 85. His wife, Maria Elena “Cuqui” Pacheco, confirmed his death of complications from pneumonia. Born in the Dominican Republic, Pacheco inherited his musical prowess from his father, Rafael Aza...