Note: The video contains some simulated graphic violence With ever constant spat between cyclists and drivers in D.C., let's imagine if we included the other main sub-sect of local transit: Metro riders. For those of us less inclined to attempt to pop a wheelie on a metro platform or train aisle, perhaps those urges can be satiated with Happy Wheels, a ragdoll-physics Flash game by Jim Bonacci. While there are already 1.7 million user-made levels, the Dupont Circle Metro station lands prominently as a feature level in the main game. more ›

By now you must know how much DCist loves our photographers who contribute through Flickr. You're probably sick of hearing us talk about them really, like your co-worker with the fabulous new millionaire boyfriend she keeps gabbing on about. But we can't help it -- we just adore these folks for offering up such great work to share with us. So you can understand why we've been so upset after reading the following discussion from... more ›

TUESDAY Got someone in your life who neatly fits within the Young Adult demographic? They’d be pleased as punch to meet China Mieville, whose new fantasy novel, Un Lun Dun, reads like a Pan’s Labyrinth without all the blood-spatter and heavy overtones of European fascism. And, yeah, you grown-ups will probably dig it as well. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY There was a time when “hooking up” really meant something.... more ›

Last month we reported that the District's first official triathlon, the Nation's Triathlon, was a go. After months of haggling with competing jurisdictions for permit, race organizers got the final go-ahead for the event, which would include a swim in the Potomac River, a bike ride up Rock Creek Park, and a run to the U.S. Capitol and back. Plenty of readers made jokes about swimming in the Potomac. Hell, so did I --... more ›

Joe Gibbs spent the past week making sure we knew he wasn’t looking past the San Francisco 49ers. He didn’t want to provide them with locker-room material. He didn’t want his team to lose focus and start drifting ahead to next week’s battle in the Meadowlands. Gibbs wanted one thing made clear—the San Francisco 49ers were the greatest threat to life in the DC Metro region since the Hot Zone. “Do you think you... more ›

The 2004 D.C. Labor Film Festival starts tomorrow and ends Monday. The festival is sponsored by the DC Metro Council AFL-CIO, Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute, and the American Film Institute, and all films are shown at the AFI's Silver Theater in Silver Spring. The concluding film will be shown in the District at the D.C. Jewish Community Center at 1529 16th St. NW. All of the films are $8.50, the final film $9. more ›

As reported by DC Metro Action and Weirdcurves, Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell will have a show opening at the Provisions Library, located at 1611 Connecticut Ave. NW. Swentzell's sculpture will be featured in the theater of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, however Wierdcurves suggests we check out the Provisions Library exhibit because "many DCers may wait until the crowds lessen before we explore it." The NMAI opens in style with an array of grand opening events on Sept. 21. more ›

DC Metro Action is reporting the HERE Union is planning a demonstration at Park America, located at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW on Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. more ›