D.C. news is a rich tapestry.

Drug-dealing pandas, popes fighting the war on cars, aurora borealis in the culture wars: A farewell to the free tabloid and its zany covers.

If you caught a glimpse of the Examiner, you’d probably walk away thinking that Pope Benedict hated D.C. traffic.

If you’re feeling the need to always be connected to the news of the day, the Old Ebbitt Grill will make it easier for you: the restaurant will now hand you a list of the most current top headlines alongside your check.

The Examiner produces reliable local journalism, but it also produces front pages that oddly juxtapose headlines against unrelated images. The results are often ironically hilarious.

The Examiner’s got a whopper of a front page today. If you don’t stop and read it, you might be excused for thinking that Capital Bikeshare is the reason U.S. embassies abroad are being violently attacked.

I almost didn’t believe it this morning when TBD’s Ryan Kearney, rounding up the post-Super Bowl front pages of local newspapers, spotted this clunker of a subhead in the Examiner. An attempted slight toward Giants fans, or just lazy copyediting?

Glory days are here again, apparently. The Redskins are riding high, climbing back from a very shaky first half from Rex Grossman to somehow salvage a one-point win over an Arizona team with a Graham Gano field goal. As you can see, the newspapers, they like this Gano fella.

The Washington Post may have discovered the best way to battle the public’s penchant for only reading the headlines of stories before moving on — just don’t bother changing the text of said headlines from stock placeholders.

According to the New York Times, embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is planning to resign. Weiner’s office on the Hill has reportedly been vacated and locked, and no one is answering the phone. The tabloids tomorrow should be interesting, huh?