It’s the slept-on Times piece I can’t stop telling people about. A Dublin-born woman named Caroline Duggan has started an Irish dance troupe at PS 59 in the South Bronx, a school where 98 percent of the population is black or Hispanic. The kids, most of whom were attuned only to hip hop dancing or the merengue prior to Duggan’s arrival, absolutely love it.

I love the story. Is it because it’s yet another piece of evidence proving cultural norms can be transcended and reworked? Perhaps in part, but it’s also because the kids are so damn cute.

Read everything here.

• OMG, this would never have happened to Madonna and David Banda. [IOL]

• The game doesn’t stop for the Game. He’s abroad right now, but a trial was just set in the states for his three felony charges. [MTV]

• This whole “Regulators” and “Vikings” thing at the LA Sheriff’s Dept. is just very, very strange. [LAT]

• Stay away from those African drums. [IOL]

• The vast majority of students who didn’t find a place this year in Dublin’s public schools are black. And there are enough of them to start a whole all-black school. [IHT]