The Washington Post Video Podcast

Every Saturday at dawn, dozens of people line up outside the Ambassador Baptist Church in S.E. Washington. In recent months, the demand for food assistance in the D.C. area has grown significantly.

First-time home buyers and eager investors take advantage of low interest rates, falling prices and the D.C. area's abundance of foreclosed properties.

At the Newseum, the public rates Obama's first months in office.

The Washington Post's Joel Garreau takes a look at an upcoming Star Wars-themed toy that uses new technology to allow the user to levitate an object...with their mind.

More than a year after 14-year-old DeOnt Rawlings was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer, his father Charles reflects on the loss of his son.

Virginians gather in Wakefield to eat shad, drink beer and mingle with gubernatorial candidates Bob McDonnell (R), Brian Moran (D) and Terry McAuliffe (D) at the annual Shad Planking.

At CulinAerie, a new recreational cooking school in Washington, D.C., co-owner Susan Holt teaches a class in conjuction with Dogfish Head Brewery about how to make food that pairs well with beer.

A former embalmer at National Funeral Home in Falls Church, Va., exposes how some bodies were stored in the facility's unrefrigerated garage.

Molly O'Hare, 10, a fourth-grader at St. James Catholic School in Falls Church, Va., can list all of the Presidents of the United States in order, backwards and by random number.

David Williams, program director of the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, visits a school to facilitate dialogue circles among students. He uses the drum as a tool to get children to talk. Read the Post Magazine cover story

The Community Conferencing Center, a non-profit organization in Baltimore, helps people settle disputes by talking to one another face-to-face. Read the Post Magazine cover story

Air Force dog handlers train canines to search for explosives and narcotics in war zones and for domestic patrols.

Two years ago, Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched a major offensive against drug traffickers, sparking an all-out war. For the border town of Ciudad Juarez, the conflict has meant a complete breakdown of law and order and a spike in violence.

Jorge Luis runs the most popular news blog in Ciudad Juarez. His site is called La Polaka, which is a derogatory word for "politician" in Mexican slang. Last fall after receiving threats to his life, Luis and his family fled the city for the safety of El Paso, Texas.

Forensic investigators have the grim task of collecting the victims of the drug war from Ciudad Juarez's streets. And with the murder rate rising, they pick up about a dozen dead bodies a day.