I'm glad Oakland manages to leave the house in the rain because San Franciscians are fucking weak in that department

Oddly enough, this video is hella old but no one in the Bay really watched it.  Then people in Europe found it, blew it up big, and now SF is finally catching wind.  From The Bay Citizen:

It’s the old filmmaker’s joke, “We’re big in Europe!”

Well, that’s certainly the case for YAKfilms’ YouTube video, “Dancing in the Rain,” which shows four men TURF dancing on the corner of MacArthur Boulevard and 90th Avenue in Oakland. The video was going viral through Europe and is now catching on in the United States.

TURF stands for “Taking Up Room on the Floor,” and it’s a form of street dancing that originated in Oakland. In contrast to other street dances, TURF aims to tell a story. And so “Dancing in the Rain” is a memorial to dancer D Real’s (he’s in the white shirt) brother Rich, who was killed in a car accident on that corner.

Read on.

Previously on Uptown Almanac

• Creepy Dancer
• Bay to Breakers Dance-Off: Hot Dog vs. Astronaut