With Bay Area traffic at peak awful, and BART totally shot for the foreseeable future, commuters are spending more and more time stuck in traffic. Enter Javonne Hatfield, the 23-year-old San Francisco resident who KQED reports has been dancing for cars atop the 101 overpass at 18th Street off and on for the past two-and-a-half years.

“I always felt that there was this was unspoken power that comes over me when I participate in any kind of dance,” Hatfield told KQED. “I would always get this very special feeling and think ‘This is for me.'”

Hatfield told the publication that following the death of his mother, he was going through a tough time in his life and found that dancing and making drivers smile was a way for him to focus his negative thoughts into something positive.

"This particular location is like a gateway in and out of San Francisco,” he furthered. "I believe what you put out is what you get back. So, I try to just give out good, give out good.” Drivers, it seems, appreciated the good vibes.

"I drive this commute, I’ve been driving this commute for close to 15 plus years,” Patricia Douglas told KALW late last year. “For the past couple of years, I’ve seen JaVonne on the freeway, just dancing with his heart, having a good old time.”

According to KALW, Hatfield's a big fan of Drake, Rudimental, Erykah Badu, and Sam Smith.

“The way that I'd describe it is like, I'm here but I'm not,” he explained to KALW. “Like, I know physically I'm here dancing in the moment, but when I'm doing it it's like I'm almost in a nirvana of it's own. The energy I feel from other people is what I go off of, and the more I dance the more energy there is.”

Related: Video: Turf Dancers Tear It Up on BART

Karen X. Cheng and Ross Ching are having some fun with gravity and camera angles in this video that's been making the rounds on Reddit and local blogs. In the past, Cheng has collaborated on that Superheroes dangling from buildings photo shoot. She's also learned to dance in a year, a process she time-lapsed to much press. Her current job or at least one of them, judging from her site, includes "viral video consulting." Here's some of that at work.

Previously: Video: Daring Photo Shoot Dangles Superheroes From SF Skyscraper

Gerard Livernois snapped this shot of a Trolly Dancer working it among the foliage.

WIth a meme-ridden theme of "Harlem Shake" this year, the 35h Carnaval, one of the remaining remnants of the old Mission, still stands as the city's most bombastic annual parades, featuring music and cultural elements from Latin American and Caribbean traditions.

The party went down wonderfully on Harrison Street between 16th and 24th Streets over the weekend. Gorgeously so, in fact. Here are a handful of stunning, color-drenched images from Sunday's bash in the Mission.

Special thanks to Bhautik Joshi and Erik Wilson for their choice imagery.

Have you ever yearned to see a California sea lion groove to "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys? Well, want no more. Ronan, a 4-year-old sea lion rescued from Highway 1 in San Luis Obispo in 2009, lives at the Pinniped Cognition & Sensory Systems Laboratory at UCSC's Long Marine Laboratory. And she doesn't just live, you see. She jams.

Wired has more:

... [UC Santa Cruz] graduate student Peter Cook trained her, beginning with a simple, repeating sound, like a metronome. When Ronan bobbed her head in time with the sound she earned a fish. Eventually she graduated to more complex tunes, and she’s now able to spontaneously bop to tracks she hasn’t heard before.

Behold:

We can only hope that this aural discovery leads tribal sea lion raves at San Francisco's Pier 39. Fingers crossed.

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Super Bowl halftime shows make Rob Lowe and Snow White's infamous 1988 Oscar performance look like "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy. And you think that reference is gay, you should see the following Super Bowl halftime shows. They're divine and everything sporting events should be, but, alas, are not.

5. Date: 1982
Location: Pontiac Silverdome (Pontiac, Michigan)
Theme: Salute to the 1960s and Motown
Performers: Up with People

They don't make halftime shows like this anymore, sadly. Up With People (right-wing music group/sect) made numerous appearances at Super Bowl halftime shows -- four of them, to be exact. This particular one, a jarring mixture of terror and smiles, features UWP bopping and hopping along to hits of the '60s. The spectacle culminates into a rendition of Let the Sunshine In, complete with a Fosse-like blob of arms, shuffling feet and movement. A fitting performance that pairs nicely with football's equality cultish and scary fan base.

4. Date: 1977
Location: Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California)
Theme: It's a Small World
Performers: The Moustekeers, Los Angeles Unified All-City Band, audience card stunt

Aside form the fact that this halftime show involves Mickey Mouse and Moustekeers working it (check out a brief appearance by Blair form The Facts of Life around the 5:30 mark), the decision to shoot almost the entirety of the halftime show from a distance is groundbreaking. So close and yet still so far away from the viewer, the mere mortal.

3. 1992
Location: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Theme: Winter Magic and salute to 1992 Winter Olympics
Performers: Gloria Estefan with Olympic Figure skaters Brian Boitano & Dorothy Hamill

What would Brian Boitano do? Figure skate at the Super Bowl. The man has balls, folks. When SFist asked Boitano to tells us about the show, he said, "I think the Chronicle voted it one of the 10 worst half time shows! That was hilarious. But It was not easy because [I had to figure skate] on small plastic ice."

Also, the majority of the show is a tribute to Christmas. Don't most Super Bowls happen in February? Don't answer that.

2. Date: 2004
Location: Reliant Stadium (Houston, Texas)
Theme: Rock the Vote
Performers: Janet Jackson (and Justin Timberlake)

Janet's career faltered after the excruciatingly named "nipplegate," while Justin Timberlake (the male Anne Hathaway) did little to support for the legendary Ms. Jackson during her time of need. So we're giving Janet's nipple reveal the No. 2. It's all for you, Janet.

1. Date: 1996
Location: Sun Devil Stadium (Tempe, Arizona)
Theme: Take Me Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Super Bowl
Performer: Miss Diana Ross

DIANA ROSS IN A HELICOPTER. Look, everything about this performance is nothing short of brilliance. From Miss Ross' welcoming statement ("We're going to take you higher at the super, super Super Bowl!") to the pyrotechnics to the hair in her face to the dancers. But the crowning touch is when, at the end of the song-and-dance spectacle, Diana is whisked away in a helicopter.

* Honorable mention: Madonna... who didn't make the list for including LMFAO in her show.

If you didn't get your fill of young gays and dancing on New Year's Eve, we have the perfect solution for those of you who decided to stay home on Monday night: Booty Call at Q Bar.

In addition to listening to the fine DJ stylings of Juanita More and DJ Duarte, you can get warm on this cold winter's night care of $6 vodka drinks and $2 whiskey shots.

Runs from 9 pm until closing. See you there.

Booty Call at Q Bar (456 Castro)

This has been making the rounds today, and it's kind of an amazing cleanser for your palate. Someone only needed to slow down the Daft Punk track ("Around the World") just slightly to get it to synch perfectly with this vintage video of three guys doing the Charleston. For those out there who don't appreciate dance history, the Charleston is a dance step popularized in the early 1920s, and though the video labels this as Charleston, it could arguably be a later style that developed out of the Charleston, since this was probably shot in the 1950s. [BuzzFeed]

Remember those groovy tunes from the mid-'60s? No? Well, neither do we. We weren't born then. However, what with the resurgence of all things non-hippie '60s (due in large part to Mad Men), it's high time you checked out "1964" at Edinburgh Castle.

Happening on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, "1964" is billed as the longest-running '60s club in San Francisco. A for the music? SF Weekly notes, "the Shirelles, the Sapphires, the Poppies, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas abound. Whether you're tragically hip or completely clueless, once you've tried the handy selection of whiskeys and taken in the sounds, there's no way you won't be dancing with a smile on your face."

1964: Edinburgh Castle, 950 Geary (at Larkin), S.F., free

Muni Diaries alerts us to this very important video: three women doing interpretive dance on a Richmond bound BART train. Fun! And fluid! But... would a little Michael Bennett now and then kill anyone? We think not. We really think not. Anyway, enjoy.

In related BART choreography news, Mission Mission has a delightful GIF of a gentleman passenger's fresh moves on a train recently. The dude performed all the way from MacArthur to the 24th Street station.

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