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The National Cherry Blossom Festival kicked off this past weekend, and with peak cherry blossom dates officially starting Wednesday, area restaurants are busy cashing in on cherry blossom fever. As we mentioned earlier, a number of local eateries are celebrating the arrival of D.C.'s famed blossoms with cherry-themed food and drinks. DCist sampled some of these creations over the weekend. From savory to sweet to boozy, there are plenty of cherry-infused treats to tempt both tourists and locals alike. These menu items are all available through April 12, but some will also be available after the end of the festival, so call ahead to check.

Ninety-six degress, Washington. That's what weather.com is predicting for today's high. That should put the heat index safely into the hundred range, and the city as a whole into the "justified complaining" range. And it's what made this photo from phillefan_99 catch our attention. It's hard to look at it and not think wistfully of summer days at Cameron Run, rubbing our backs raw on the waterslides and bobbing in the suspiciously salty wave...

By Amanda and Ben Page

FRIDAY: >> January at 9:30 Club tends to be a no man's land of lots of dark nights with the occassional local line-up thrown in for good measure. So we think it's great that Taint, DC9's weekly queer dance night for electro-indie goodness, and Black Cat's popular Bliss have ganged up to create INFAMY, a late-night dance fiesta featuring DJ Will Eastman and New York's DJ Bill Coleman, with special guest Daisy Spurs. Doors open...

By DCist contributor Celeste Dawn Mitchell Two thousand of the khaki crowd's finest came out to party Thursday at Friends of the National Zoo's Young Professionals' (or FONZ YP's, if you will) sold-out Brew at the Zoo. Proceeds went toward its Asian elephant conservation project. Just in case patrons forgot they were partying for a cause, four-ounce fill-lines on souvenir mugs intimated that this was a classy tasting affair, not a frat kegger. Though...

Good morning, Washington. It's not local news, but we'd be remiss if we failed to mention the story that's at the top of every media outlet's coverage this morning: Iraqi insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed by a precision airstrike. The news comes approximately four years after the military's first opportunity to attack Zarqawi was inexplicably abandoned. What this means for U.S. security, Iraqi democracy or the midterm elections, we couldn't guess — but it seems safe to say that this is what folks will be talking about today. Nats Owners Fight Underground Parking; Emergency Fund Used: The Post reports on the progress of the Nats' new stadium. It sounds like underground parking is probably out — there simply isn't enough time or money to complete such a facility, according to the team's new ownership. And that's not all: apparently half of the stadium project's contingency funds are now spoken for, thanks to the site being more contaminated than originally thought. Chaos At Eastern High Graduation: NBC4 brings word of what sounds like an astoundingly bad high school graduation. Eastern High administrators passed out tickets for far more seats than their auditorium could accomodate. Worse, enforcement of the ticket policy was uneven. Some folks couldn't get in; others couldn't get out. Chaos apparently ensued. Stay Of Execution Revoked: It was only yesterday that Percy Levar Walton won a stay of execution on the grounds that Virginia's practice of lethal injection may be unconstitutional. However, today's Post reports that that reprieve has already been cancelled: Virginia won an appeal to have the ruling overturned just hours after it was issued. Walton, who is schizophrenic and mentally retarded according to defense witnesses , is scheduled to die at 9 p.m. tonight. Governor Kaine's office says that he is reviewing the case. Briefly Noted: Rabid kittens menace Greenbelt... Potomac river killing fish, but not people... Band of armed jewelry thieves on the loose... This Day In DCist: A year ago today we preached about pidé, discussed places to get free haircuts, and questioned Mie N Yu's recent Rammy success. Image posted to DCist Photos by Flickr user maxedaperture

We've been waiting patiently for a press release on the 2005 Rammy Award winners, hoping that the three-day delay was because there would be some sort of recount. Not that we completely disagreed with the winners -- many are good choices, whether selected by the public or by RAMW itself. Saint-Ex as best neighborhood gathering spot? Sure. Indebleu as hottest bar scene? Obvious. CityZen as best new restaurant? Even more obvious. But when we read that the public chose Mie N Yu as favorite restaurant we immediately thought there was some sort of mistake.