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 ...

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 evening commute on BART is Eric Bassett's time to shine. Bossett, 20, who performs as Kid Strobe, leads his seven-man crew onto a train at Powell Street Station in San Francisco and carves out a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 dancing was born from the rhythm of Oakland and developed in conversation with the world. An acronym for Taking Up Room on the Floor, TURF is a prominent dance style from the San Francisco Bay ...

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 ...

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 ...