Arthur Gardner, a.k.a. Dopey Fresh, spends many mornings trying to rouse BART commuters out of an iPhone-induced stupor. “Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!” he calls out to the crowd on board the ...
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 ...
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 ...
J and N Stables and Diamond M Stable’s New York-bred Dancing Buck found his groove on the front end under Luis Rivera Jr. in Saturday’s $150,000 Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship (L), a six-furlong ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Make no mistake, Daisy Vazquez loves to perform. But Friday night was time to compete at the TURF dance battle held at the Oakland Museum of California. "I just like putting ...
Turf dancing, a Bay Area style with roots in 1990s Oakland, is enjoying a resurgence and gaining international attention for its creative techniques expressing cultural and personal attitudes. And on ...
Youth Radio producers Chaz Hubbard and Ike Sriskandarajah recall riding BART last summer, brainstorming new projects to cover the art scene in the Bay Area, when an idea appeared right before their ...
Char� Johnson performs under the shadow of death. Every time the 17-year-old hip-hop dancer goes on stage with his group, the Architeckz, he looks inside himself and focuses on the anger and pain of ...
Sire: WAR DANCER, dkb/br, 2010. Raced 4 yrs, 30 sts, 6 wins, $1,072,097. Won Virginia Derby (G2T), Louisville H (G3T), PTHA President's Cup S (T); 2nd Man o' War S (G1T), Bowling Green H (G2T), ...
J and N Stables and Diamond M Stable's Dancing Buck broke sharply and took a lead he never relinquished Oct. 1, leading at every point of call en route to a five-length victory in the $200,000 Belmont ...