A recent Friday, 1:37 p.m.: Calling themselves the Turf Feinz, the four members of the Turf dance crew dart through a BART train headed for San Francisco. They need to find the next audience to wow ...

On a cold and rainy October day, four men gathered on two corners of 90th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. What they did next captured the attention of more than a million YouTube ...

Turf Feinz began with one dance, a tribute to Darrell Armstead's brother who had been killed in a traffic accident. It has since accumulated more than a million hits on YouTube. Turfin, a dance style ...

OAKLAND — So far, 2013 has been a come-out year for Oakland films with “Fruitvale Station” taking top honors at the Sundance Film Festival and “Licks” pulling in the same at the Chelsea Film Festival ...

During a recent trip to San Francisco, Feist and her backing vocal crew Mountain Man stopped on a street corner for an impromptu performance of delicate Metals ballad “Cicadas and Gulls.” Looney and ...

The street code has its own commandments. Thou shalt be down with thy set no matter what. If someone shoots one of yours, you retaliate. If you get arrested for a crime you didn’t commit, you take the ...

Programmed by David Wilson Join an all-style dance tournament featuring the best of Bay Area turf dancing, hosted by Johnny5 of Oakland-based dance crew TurF FeinZ and founder of Turf Inc., which ...

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If there are two dance forms that seem to be total opposites of one another, it's turf and ballet dancing. Turf dancing is an art form that was created by black youth in Oakland, and is characterized ...

ON A COLD and rainy October day, four men gathered on two corners of 90th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. What they did next captured the attention of more than a million YouTube ...