If you're a regular Flickr user, you probably noticed that sometime yesterday they enabled an exciting new feature: video uploading. While they may not surpass the megavideoempire YouTube in popularity anytime soon, it is pretty sweet for those of us who like to keep our online media all in one place. In keeping lockstep with the online community, we've created a new DCist Videos group on Flickr for you, the reader, to contribute your hilarious......

If you caught the morning network news shows or read this Washington Post story detailing the whole affair, then you may already know the story of Devraj "Dave" S. Kori, a senior at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County, who called the school system's administrator at home last week to give him a hard time about not declaring a snow day. Kori found a number for Dean Tistadt, chief operating officer for the......

When in the closing days of 2006 we looked back on the year in D.C. voting rights, we optimistically hoped that 2007 would finally be the year that saw some movement on enfranchising the District's residents. Movement, yes; resolution, not so much. So as we wind down 2007, we're again left hoping that maybe the coming year will be the one. The primary mover in the D.C. voting rights movement in 2007 was legislation......

One of these guys might be the next president, so it's good to try and parse where they stand on District voting rights. At least that was the thinking over at D.C. Vote, who recently recorded and sent in a number of videos of District residents asking the presidential candidates from the Republican Party where they stood on D.C. voting rights. The videos, eleven in all, were submitted to CNN for the upcoming CNN/YouTube......

The Associated Press is reporting that former Va. Gov. Jim Gilmore has officially announced he is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. John Warner. Gilmore announced his candidacy by posting a video to YouTube. The formal announcement sets up Gilmore as the presumed Republican nominee for the seat, as the other leading candidate, Rep. Tom Davis (Va.-R), announced last month that he would not seek the seat. Gilmore will......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Halloween Screams at the AFI Perhaps my favorite part of this time of year is the fact that on any given night, you can turn on the television, and somewhere on the dial you can find a movie about things that go bump in the night, creatures from the depths of Hell, or your garden......

Their debut album has been out for almost two years and somehow the outside world is only just getting to know them as that band that has that backward music video on YouTube. However you know them, Mute Math (or TBTHTBMVOYT, for... short?) is hitting up Sonar in Baltimore tonight for an evening of art rock/post rock/electro rock/whatever the hell music snobs and critics want to label it as. The band has come a long......

Here's some video of the Dalai Lama arriving in Washington today from YouTube. Tibet's spiritual leader will receive a Congressional Gold Medal tomorrow at the U.S. Capitol. The medal, which accompanies a resolution passed last year that recognizes him as "a leading figure of moral and religious authority," will be presented during a ceremony attended by Preident Bush, representing the first time a sitting U.S. president has met the Dalai Lama in public. If......

We love this video of Toronto FC fans heading to the game on Metro from YouTube. Despite their crushing defeat at the hands of D.C. United Saturday night, the visiting fans showed a lot of moxie. As the DCenters note, boisterous TFC fans came en masse to support their club:TFC fans: The expansion club's supporters are the gem of the league and to see (we actually heard them first; we were in the ramp......

Tuesday and today Howard University is hosting the Children's Defense Fund National Summit, which includes panel discussions on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Initiative, a project that seeks to end the cycle of poor minority children ending up destined to be shuffled in and out of the country's prison system. Yesterday Bill Cosby appeared on a panel titled "The Need for Personal and Community Responsibility" in conjunction with the summit, along with NPR's Juan......

Via the Examiner, someone has posted a video of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to YouTube where she openly discusses the obstacles she’s come across in trying to overhaul our troubled public school system. The 12-minute clip shows Rhee speaking to the Democrats for Education Reform about a week ago. She describes the school system as running “counter to the way any good organization operates,” and insists that "the only way" to get to......

YouTube user northeastcentral edited together this little music video ode to the Chinatown bus to Sufjan Stevens' song "Chicago," writing: I got this idea while watching a sequence from "Little Miss Sunshine" and decided that a video of the Chinatown bus could also be relatively faithful to the lyrics of the music in those scenes. This was the result. ~The price... ~The speed... ~The sketchiness... ~The freedom... Many of us who rely on the......

>> Little children don't like President Bush. [YouTube, embedding sadly turned off] >> Director Ridley Scott set off a bomb at Eastern Market yesterday, but Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio were not there, so stop asking us about it. [Reliable Source] >> A U.S. Park Police officer reportedly shot and wounded a driver on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Riverdale this afternoon. [WaPo] >> The FBI has launched a new Web site, BankBandits.com, in an......

YouTube user artschoolscrewup only recently uploaded this video from D.C.'s July 4th parade, which shows the guy playing Uncle Sam on stilts falling on his butt. A quick search reveals that Uncle Sam on Stilts Taking Abuse is on its way to becoming its own YouTube genre, but questions abound: is it funny for any Uncle Sam to look silly, or only ones on stilts? And why the prevalence of putting Sam on stilts......

In case you missed this great Post article from Clarence Williams and Elissa Silverman this morning, be sure and read the whole thing. It's the story of Simon Mahteme, owner of LeDroit Park Market, the center of a neighborhood struggling to improve itself in the face of continuing crime and violence. Mahteme's store has been broken into ten times since October, and after this last incident, he had a customer help him place the......

Just two days left in our V Fest ticket giveaway video contest. Make your best entry that includes some form of a song by a V Fest artist, load it to YouTube, tag it with "DCist," and send an email to amanda (at) dcist (dot) com with the link and your contact information to put your hat in the ring. All entries must come in by 5 p.m. this Sunday night. Don't miss your......

Because we care about our readers, we've dug around and found another pair of Virgin Festival tickets to give away. The LOL Cats-themed contest produced such creative and hilarious results, we're going to kick things up a notch this time around. To win a pair of tickets to next weekend's festival, make a video that somehow includes one or more Virgin Festival artists. Whether you're lip syncing, using them as the score to a......

This Digital Life: Basic Instructions for Coping with the 21st Century, a presentation by Truffle Pigs as part of the Capital Fringe Festival, points at the strange role the Internet can play in our daily lives. In a wired world where artificial identities are easy to acquire and where people ironically sit alone in front of their computer screens trying to connect with people, this play draws attention to how endless access to information leads......

But this photo, taken in Old Town on Friday night by zenisfrisbee just before the final Harry Potter book was released, is too funny not to post. I honestly honestly honestly have no idea if this is true, I'm still reading The Half-Blood Prince, and I'm choosing to believe this guy is just trying to rile people up. For now, PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS in the comments. I will remove them. That said,......

... But harder still is keeping from laughing while you're capturing some guy's rather sad attempts to perform some near the National Mall. YouTube user hermankirby's faint background laughter makes this short video all the funnier. Turns out practice doesn't always make perfect.......

YouTube user methticalman captured this footage of a D.C. Parking Enforcement Services vehicle being towed, and tagged it with "dcist". We asked him whether he could confirm the car was towed for being parked in an illegal spot, and he said he couldn't be totally sure -- it might have just been hauled away because it broke down, but it had indeed been parked in a no parking/standing area on 11th St. NW, near......

Hayden Panettiere, the young star of NBC's Heroes, is getting mixed reviews on YouTube for her performance singing the National Anthem in D.C. on Wednesday as part of the Capital Fourth concert at the National Mall. Judge for yourself.......

For anyone remotely involved in the D.C. art scene, we present to you a solution to your frustrations with Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik. Avowed local oddball photographer James W. Bailey posted this video to YouTube and tagged it with DCist. If you've got a video you'd like to share, we encourage you to do the same.......

Who are these people and why are they tangoing the night away in Freedom Plaza? This is a video submitted to YouTube of the popular summertime milonga, the Milonga a la Libertad, which happens most Sundays from 7 to 10 p.m. from May until Sept. It's free to join in -- participants are merely asked to bring a snack or beverage to share.......

Above is one of the many short videos we found on YouTube from this past weekend's Capital Pride Parade (and if dancing men dressed as cowboys in short shorts isn't safe for your work, then this is NSFW), and it got us thinking. We couldn't be happier with the community of excellent photographers that's developed out of our DCist Flickr Pool. But we like running funny, interesting, or beautiful videos just as much as......

Youtube user Brohim posted a video of Sunday night's impressive storm with a view of lightning striking what looks to be pretty close to the Washington monument. Since most of us were away yesterday, care to share any stories of how the storm affected your holiday plans?......

We were excited to stumble across this fantastic clip of D.C. icon Petey Greene on YouTube today. In the clip, for reasons we're not really sure about, Greene explains how to eat a watermelon on his show, "Petey Greene's Washington" on WDCA-TV. If you're unfamiliar with (or perhaps too young to know about) the life of Petey Greene, the famed ex-con turned civil rights activist turned TV and radio personality is the subject of......

CBS finally released video to YouTube today of that terrifying Battle of the Bands between Tony Snow and Bob Schieffer we previewed late last month. It's just exactly as scary as you might imagine.......

Yesterday we picked up a false report from a usually reliable news source, and conveyed misinformation as facts. Washington Capitals team webmaster Mike Vogel ran a story on the official team website stating that Caps forward Alexander Ovechkin had been disciplined for a "hit from behind," and we picked it up as fact. After all, there was a link to the story on the NHL.com homepage, so someone must have checked it out. Hitting......

Today the National Press Club announced the craziest show to hit the Washington music scene since Dismemberment Plan decided to reunite for two performances this weekend. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who's recovering well from his cancer surgery, and CBS anchor Bob Schieffer go head to head in a battle of the bands dubbed Honky Tonk Meets the White House Wonk. The veteran newsman sings with Honky Tonk Confidential, a country-western band, while......