Some might argue that no actor on prime time television has ever come close to achieving with a dance move what Alfonso Ribeiro did with "The Carlton" on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air." His performance, complete with swinging arms and goofy, gleeful grin, redefined uncool. But in today's ironic world, The Carlton's very uncoolness makes it the epitome of cool, and so naturally, Ribeiro decided to use it to try to put together the largest flash mob in North American history. more ›

Nothing is more 2012 than a flash mob, which is probably why Nabisco included one as part of a surprise 100th birthday celebration for Oreo cookies Tuesday at The Grove. Wait--flash mobs aren't cool anymore? more ›

Diners and drinkers at the original Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood Thursday night were treated to a flash-mob style poetry performance in tribute to iconic L.A. writer Charles Bukowski. more ›

Occupy Santa Ana kicked off the holiday season by holding a pair of flash mobs at the checkout lines of Walmarts in Santa Ana and Orange last night. The protestors asked the workers to call in sick on Black Friday, when many retailers are opening up as early as midnight. more ›

A group of skilled dancers cavorted to the tune of "Marry You" by Bruno Mars, "surprising" the couple and their close friends during their jaunt. After watching the spectacle for a minute or so, Love joins the dancers, shocking his soon-to-be-fiancée. more ›

You've heard of flash mobs -- gatherings of people, coordinated online or on phones, who are getting together because they just want to dance. But now, police are cracking down on what are known as "flash robs," according to CBS News -- when a group of people get together at a place like a 7-11, walk in, and rob it. more ›

Deep fried Oreos, farm animals, floral displays, carnival rides and...a Spring 2012 dress collection? Attendees at the Los Angeles County Fair last weekend found themselves treated to a surprise fashion show by designer Tess Vigil of 50 Dresses, with models strutting the collection "Fash Mob"-style amidst the fried food and family fun. more ›

Just before Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was scheduled to speak at California's Republican party convention last night at L.A. Live, a flash mob emerged. Sponsored by the group Courage Campaign, the mob was protesting Bachmann's anti-gay political stances with a dance choreographed to — what else? — "Like A Prayer." more ›

In just under a week, The Game has gone from a prankster under criminal investigation to a champion of responsible free speech. The rapper got into hot water with the LA Sheriff's Department after he sent out a tweet with the agency's public help line but authorities agreed to drop charges after he apologized for the incident on CNN. more ›

Claiming a music internship opportunity, Charles Louboutin, The Game, tweeted the public help line number for the Compton Sheriff's Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to his nearly 580,000+ followers at 5:23 p.m. on Friday night prompting hours of calls and delaying emergency response service for incidents including "a missing person, a spousal assault, two robberies and a stolen car," according to a LASD statement. more ›

The man wounded in a shooting on the Venice Boardwalk Saturday night was struck during the course of a flash mob gathering that had been organized using Twitter, reports the LA Times. The victim, said to be in his mid-20s, received a gunshot wound in the head and was listed in critical condition following the shooting. more ›

Even in the chilly and wet rainstorm-y weather it's still the holidays, and while we find it in decorations and displays, it can also pop up in unexpected forms like it did on Monday, when a group of 150 dancers from the non-profit arts group Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation performed flash mob--or "splash mob"--style at LA Live to several holiday tunes. more ›

There was buzz about a secret flash mob hours before the mob actually appeared. A window of hours during Saturday's festivities was secretly passed along, but no mob was sighted during the supposedly set times. Then, just as we were leaving, we saw an unusual number of umbrellas. It was hot enough for shade protection, yes, but not that hot. more ›

They came, they saw, they beat the crap out of each other with pillows. more ›

Many small libraries use web resource LibraryThing to help sort their inventory, as do readers all over the world who want to keep track of their tomes. The site is now urging users to form FlashMobs to catalog complete library inventories. They explain that the event usually entails a gathering where "LibraryThing members descend on some small library with laptops and CueCat barcode scanners, catalog their books in LibraryThing, eat some pizza, talk some talk and leave them with a gleaming new LibraryThing catalog." more ›