It’s Friday, and chances are you’re going clubhopping this weekend. So we’d like to help. Each week, we’ll be selecting three hot current dance jams for you — tracks to add to your weekend playlist, or to ID when you’re moving to them on a crowded dance floor. Just to make it a little easier, we’ve added YouTube embeds for each song, as well as some notes on what they mean in the larger scheme of things.

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1. Why Is Kanye Mad at SNL? We’re willing to forgive his anger due to how much we love his new single, “Power.”
2. Writers for Conan O’Brien Get Their Own Show (for a Night) – No word on whether Jay Leno will get this canceled, too.
3. Opera Makes Fun of Google Chrome Speed Test – Although pretty hilarious, we decided that we’re going to have to stick with Chrome.
4. The Various Hairs of Nicolas Cage – As we typically tend to avoid Cage productions, we had difficulty naming the movies these crazy “do’s” are from.
5. Pogo’s “Gardyn” – Almost as good as the song is Pogo’s garden. We want that garden!

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Forget the so-so acting and formulaic plots — there is a long and illustrious history of great dance moments captured on film. Be it Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire tap dancing, John Travolta doing the disco, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray practicing lifts in the water, or Julia Stiles fusing ballet and hip hop, everyone has a favorite dance scene that they have tried to memorize and perform. After the jump, we have compiled our favorite dance scenes from film in chronological order. We’re willing to bet you won’t stay in your chair for long.

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Today at Flavorpill, we gawked at Spencer Tunick’s latest naked photography project at the Sydney Opera House. We wondered what would happen if Community were more like Friends. We made plans to see both Alec Baldwin in an upcoming Long Island production of Equus and William Kentridge’s crazy directorial debut, a rare staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera. We imagined reading The New Yorker on our iPad this summer while simultaneously contemplating a future without bookshelf espionage. We jammed out to the ultimate New York playlist, followed up by the 22 greatest songs written for commercials. We fell even harder for Roger Ebert after reading Will Leitch’s story on Deadspin. We watched The Jersey Shore recreate scenes from The Hurt Locker — we can’t wait to see what they do with Avatar. We were super excited at the prospect of no more hangovers thanks to oxygenated alcohol. And finally, we were surprised to learn that the earthquake in Chile has likely shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. Crazy, right?

If you’re one of the many admirers who discovered Sunn O))) through last year’s galaxy-shaking Monoliths and Dimensions, then you understand the soothing effects of doom metal. As the band’s guitarist Greg Anderson told author and enthusiast John Wray in a 2006 New York Times Magazine profile, “I think low-frequency sound, when played above a certain volume, is very conducive to a meditative state or a trance.” This isn’t metal for headbanging; it’s metal to meditate to.

Although Anderson and his partner Stephen O’Malley have honed their brand of focused distortion to a therapeutic science, they’re far from the only metalheads employing extreme low-end rumblings for our metaphysical benefit. To aid you on your spiritual journey, we present this collection of notable releases from metal groups working to bring us closer to enlightenment through the heaviest of sounds. Namaste!

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When it comes to Macs, we all tend to get a bit crazy. Some of us wait in line overnight for the new iPhone, while others scour the Internet for the latest Apple tablet buzz. So it came as no surprise when techies started buzzing about a Swedish company’s newest addition to the bedroom. Meet what we’re calling the iBed — a 21st century alternative for the man who refuses to update his Batman sheets. More Mac-spiration after the jump.

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There’s no debating that 2009 was the year of the Snuggie. TV personalities — from Oprah to Jimmy Fallon to the cast of the Today Show — endorsed the sleeved blanket. There were parodies, imitators, and pub crawls. Even fictional characters (we’re looking at you Liz Lemon) sang its praises. But as we all know, you can’t stay on top forever. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of possible contenders to takeover in 2010 where the Snuggie left off. Which one will you be wearing?

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Pez man Curtis Allina may not have lived to see what is to come of the new decade (he died in mid-December), but his candy remains a constant fixture. The candy exec was responsible for changing the 1927 Austrian peppermints (or “pfeffermintz,” where the name Pez comes from) originally created to curb cigarette smoking, into a saccharine candy in a kid-friendly package. And although the kitschy dispensers may have changed from classic Viennese busts of Mozart to the big-lipped and overly rouged Bratz dolls, we appreciate the reflection of culture with each and every backwards snap of a head.

Which dispensers do you have at the bottom of the box under your bed? Or are yours displayed dust-free in a glass-enclosed case? Either way, check out our homage round-up of the weirdest Pez dispensers, and add yours to our list.

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Earlier today someone sent us a link to Mattel’s Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Barbie Doll, and we thought it was the best thing we’d ever seen. And then we stumbled across this roundup of handcrafted Lady Gaga Barbies on Refinery29, and our mind exploded. Veik, the 29-year-old Beijing-based artist behind the dolls, explained to Joonbug why he chose Gaga as his muse: “Just look at her in those amazing wigs, makeup, and outfits! I was thinking it would be fun to make those wigs for dolls, and that a Lady Gaga doll must be interesting. Since then, I pay close attention to her; her music, clothes, glasses, makeup, everything! Every detail makes me love her more and more.”

Peep ‘em after the jump and let us know which one is your favorite. We’re partial to the crazy VMA look to the right — but wish he’d added some blood for realism.

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Artkrush launched in March 2005 with a mission to cover the most innovative art and design coming out of cultural capitals worldwide. We’ve featured art fairs, biennials, and roundups of recent trends; reviewed shows from Mumbai to Moscow; highlighted the hottest emerging talents; interviewed the day’s sharpest artists, designers, and curators; and reported on breaking art and design news and essential publications. Looking back, to mark the end of the decade and our own first half-decade, we’ve compiled five years of Artkrush covers into a sparkling, new slideshow.

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