FRIDAY: >> This weekend is filled to the brim with events surrounding the 2007 Urban Film Series tour just in time for Black History Month. Dozens of short and feature-length films addressing the black experience are being screened at Regal Cinema Gallery Place, many with panel discussions following. There’s a bevy of established and rising talent to see, but our pick for Friday has to be a conversation and book-signing with the Wizard’s own center…

Any longtime reader of DCist knows that many of us, particularly your editor here, find it funny how the nation’s capital is more likely to fall to its knees in absolute supplication when there is the threat of snow than when there’s an orange-level terrorist alert. We can take the snow, we can take the intense heat. It’s just when Mother Nature hasn’t decided what she wants to do with us is when we…