Allison Williams, a woman who has not (to the best of my knowledge) ever undergone a DNA paternity test, says you can trust her father.

Citing its sexually suggestive nature, Aliso Niguel High School in Southern California has officially banned twerking from campus and all school dances: "Twerking now joins 'freaking' and 'grinding' as prohibited dances at the Orange County school."

There's not really anything to say about this except that the little girl is perfect and should never change, and thank God it's Wednesday.

Consternation!! Alarm!! Here is a shocking video of NYPD officers at the West Indian Day Parade, in which the cops appear to be enjoying themselves and interacting positively with the community, instead of preventing shootings that were happening blocks away, possibly at a different time altogether!

There's a lot to like about this very well-done promo video for a soon-to-open East London shopping, hrm, "centre" besides the fashion, much of which still looks very snappy, if not entirely accurate. Such as, for example, the music (by Tristin Norwell), and the choreography, and imagining how annoying, but also fun, it would have been to change your clothes 100 times and do the same dance every time. [via The Hairpin]

Want to see Russian President Dmitry Medvedev shaking his groove thing at a techno dance party? Of course you do.

Remember when, before iPods, et al. became ubiquitous, record stores—like the Virgin Megastore in Chicago, for example—had those cool listening stations that allowed you to jam out to your favorite tune in public? Those were the days.

Here's a video from a cover band performance of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" at the Winstar Casino. But the true star isn't the singer—it's the elderly couple performing an interpretive dance to the song. Awwwwww!

Are you familiar with the dance that is sweeping America's youth? It is known as "The Dougie." Here's CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer doing the Dougie. Time for a new dance craze.

Here is an odd, elderly-looking (2,000 year-old?) baby in church, dancing as if possessed by the Jesus Spirit. Give that baby a cigarette and tape it to a wall, it'll be the biggest thing on the internet!

Men! Do you feel lost on the dance floor? Are you having trouble scoring hot babes at the club? Don't worry! Scientists have identified the sexiest dance moves. Want to see them?

"'Square-dancing here isn't really what people imagine it to be,' [Portland hipster Paul] Silveria [friends with many 'tattooed habitués of the punk scene'] says of the hybrid rock and square-dance moves he does." Oh yes it is. [WSJ]