Today and tomorrow, we’ll be taking the opportunity to look back at the year in D.C. and the year in DCist. We’ll retrieve for you what we’ve determined are the best and most interesting DCist pieces in dining, arts, music, and news. This year we’ve written over two thousand posts (generating over ten thousand comments), and we figured the best way to start the reminiscence was to bring back for you the most read DCist posts of 2005. Now, without further ado:

10: In the end, it appears the District was, in fact, hungry for bowling. Our list begins with its most recent post, a Lucky Strike review.

9: In what began a yearlong DCist infatuation, Rob Goodspeed first raised the question, “Who is Borf?“

8: To be honest, we can’t figure out what got this one on the list. We believe it may be the photo. We give you a random Mike Grass Morning Roundup.

7: “The cops came and we were like, ‘Get Freddy Adu out of here, and we hopped the fence with him.”

6: You’d have thought there’d be someone out there throwing a government subsidy toward Duane Dickerson. I mean, we’ve got to protect the family farm, from big corporations, boll weevils, and lost Census employees.

5: Not for joking, number 5 announced a loss for the D.C. community.

4: This one was a classic, the much linked to and much commented upon popped collar piece, courtesy of Tom Lee.

3: Warhol and the Capital Fringe Festival. At number 3, one of Cyndi Spain’s Arts Agendas.

2: This one made it for the comment war. Our readers always have strong opinions when we break open a ticket pre-sale.

1: And finally, coming in at number 1 with almost twice as many hits as the runner-up was this, Martin Austermuhle’s requiem for beer pong.

Picture taken by dcJohn.