Stemming from the 1980s break dance movement, Northern California has pioneered a number of offshoot dance styles, including turfin, which stems from the acronym TURF: Tearin Up Room on the Floor. Shout to the Turf Feinz from my hometown of Oakland, CA, who I recently saw perform at White Collar Brawler.

Check out TF’s remarkably elegant video for a style of dance that’s as much street-inspired as it is linked to guys like Michael Jackson and even traditional dance like ballet:

(via The Barron)

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Stemming from the 1980s break dance movement, Northern California has pioneered a number of offshoot dance styles, including turfin, which stems from the acronym TURF: Tearin Up Room on the Floor. Shout to the Turf Feinz from my hometown of Oakland, CA, who I recently saw perform at White Collar Brawler.

Check out TF’s remarkably elegant video for a style of dance that’s as much street-inspired as it is linked to traditional dance like ballet:

(via The Barron)

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The Story Pirates– a part-comedy, part-theater, part-educational troupe of actors, musicians and puppeteers working to improve literacy and writing in schools– help MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan explain the recent Financial Crisis through song:

Watch the full segment here, and be sure to check out the Story Pirates’ great programs in NYC & LA schools. Also be sure to check out the Story Pirates Facebook Fan Page.

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The band ‘OK Go‘ has a reputation for non-traditional music videos and they’re back at it again with an amazing Rube Goldberg device that takes us through their new son, “This Too Shall Pass.” Check it out:

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This Conan O’Brien masterpiece employs Cheetos in a simply amazing way:

Chester Cheetah Bonus Round: The Cheeto living room!

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Billed as “the greatest Hanukkah gift of all time” — and I’m not necessarily disagreeing — the Spinagogue reinvents the Jewish game of dreidel in a modern way, that people of all faiths can appreciate. In fact, who doesn’t like spinning a dreidel, particularly when you get to spin it on the moon or on a skeeball lane?

Schmaltz & Latke Bonus Round: Buy your tickets for Major League Dreidel 2009, to be held on December 12 at New York’s Knitting Factory, and check out scenes from MLD 2008:

To pre-order your Spinagogue for Hannukah 2009, visit ModernTribe.com, and for more information about Major League Dreidel, hit up League Knishioner, Eric Harris Pavony.

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This is one of those brilliantly made hypnotic videos – elegantly simple, yet says so much (wait for the fat guy at 3:50):

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