Excerpt from:

A Night Out
With Mira Sorvino.
Sunday, April 21

Student of the Hip Swish's Sorvino took it all in long-legged stride, dressed in a tightly belted white trench coat and tiny high-heeled sandals. She navigated the crowd and then, as the clock neared 11, broke out with her friend Karim Noack to go salsa dancing in the East Village.

Ms. Noack, who is from Columbia, is Ms. Sorvino's salsa/ rumba/ flamenco/ tango teacher. "Karim is the best dance partner you could have," Ms.Sorvino said. "She really flings me around." The limo crept down to Avenue C, on the prowl for a bar Ms. Noack said was the only place in Manhattan for real Cuban salsa late on Tuesdays. The bar, Lava Gina, between Seventh and Eighth Streets...