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FILM: Starting tonight and ending Saturday is the Ryerson University Film Festival (RUFF), an annual end-of-year screening of graduating film students' final projects. The opening night screens nine short films from the class, which is certain to offer up some gems from the city’s young film talent. Case in point: many of the films screened over the next few nights are picked up by international film festivals and shown around the world. Royal Cinema (608 College Street) 7 p.m. $10.

FOUND magazine's hook is simple: readers send in items they've found (from handwritten love notes to Polaroids), and Davy Rothbart curates and publishes them. The finds, which appear in the magazine, the best-selling series of FOUND books, or on the mag's website as the Find of the Day, run the gamut from cute to tragic; like PostSecret, it's a way to get an anonymous glimpse inside someone else's life, but unlike PostSecret, participation in the project isn't voluntary.

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now.

started finding all my lost socks! What? Anyhow, Found's North American tour stops by the Drake Hotel this Friday, Nov. 5, from 7-9pm. The magazine is a literary collection of found items such as quirky to-do lists and psychotic break-up notes, in which nothing is contextualized or explained at length. The post-it notes, scribblings or what-have-you's can read into the pathos of some or just demonstrate the bizarro lives of others. And since none of the notes have authors, it's okay to laugh. A free event at the Drake Hotel Underground.