We hope you had a good weekend Washington. This photo was taken by DCist’s Kyle Gustafson at The Futureheads’ show at the 9:30 Club on Saturday. Read our review of that show and Spoon’s performance on Friday. In the meantime, here’s what you may have missed on DCist over the past few days. — Current newspapers to wed Voice of the Hill. — Have you ever wondered what it’s like to prod a poodle with…

Sorry for the lack of posts today. This DCist was run off the road by a black Volvo while biking yesterday after work up near Battery Kemble Park. We’re OK, for the most part (no broken bones), but our body really hurts after hitting a tree. So we’re at home in bed (laptop nearby) and Kyra Phillips’ voice on CNN is starting to cause acute ringing in our ears. Additionally, when we read the City…

(Photo of a photog let loose around the Tidal Basin from DCJohn’s Flickr photostream.) We guess they’re the D.C. version of the Gates. Instead of visitors in Central Park looking at saffron fabric, we have visitors in West Potomac Park admiring a blanket of pink flowers … except that unlike Christo’s public art, the cherry blossoms will return next year, assuming a swarm of beavers or northern snakeheads don’t crawl out of the water…

Washington, D.C., may not be a locale frequently visited by the flaws and foibles of A-List celebrities, but the nexus of power and politics nevertheless yields a generous supply of dish. Washingtonians know where to get their gossip, and they have a decent array of choice: such as kitten-with-a-whip Wonkette, the above-the-fray Reliable Source Richard Leiby, the unbuttoned back pages of The Hill and Roll Call’s “Heard on the Hill,” the window into vicarious living…