Famous Friday Round Up
#WEEKEND
If you’re staycationing in DC, beautiful days ahead: Saturday 72 °F and sunny; Sunday 83 °F and sunny; Monday 91°F and sunny;
#NATIONAL
Beautiful places that could soon disappear forever; ICYMI Letterman’s final top 10; you can now officially play the word “LOLZ” in Scrabble; Does color even exist, man?; Best hate-mail ever: man cross-stitches his bank card & sends it to the bank while waiting for a replacement card; Many song lyrics are on a 3rd grade reading level; Nope nope nope nope nope; Eliot Spitzer has a new baby and it’s a cat; Maggie Gyllenhaal is too old; you have never had a bad birthday party; looking at Appalachia anew; Irish people going #hometovote;
#DISTRICT
A day in the life of a Capitol Hill reporter; National Journal cited some of the most powerful women in Washington and Alexis Covey Brandt is one of them; Rosa DeLauro rocking these frames; from the non-news desk – rich DC residents like to cheat on their spouses; #FloridaMan; Capitol Police getting extra training; Does ump Marvin Hudson hate the Nats?; Yes, this cat cafe is really happening; Conservatives taking a break from Chick-fil-A; how well do you know your way around DC?; DC murder suspect identified by DNA left on pizza crust; vote for your home state food at the Taste of America; Google Maps having problems with racist slurs directed at the President; best 25 of Washingtonian’s cheap eats in DC; Jessica Sidman calls out DC for weak breakfast scene; amazing love story behind this Fairfax house; Good explainer on the Nats and chocolate syrup; DuPont underground tunnel will be an impressive art space; a true story of the DC life, as told in gifs by Jacob Wood;
#FAMOUSFORDC
Michael Steel’s amazing sendoff; John Murray JAMS. Seriously.; S3 rocked Stanton & Greene; Batting fourth for the Washington Nationals, US Travel’s Jonathan Grella; Tell Paul Stimers congratulations on the House of Representatives passing the SPACE Act; Tell Lori Brown and Brian Werner congrats on getting hitched this weekend; Alex Rodriguez hung out on the Speaker’s balcony with an international man of mystery; Steve Scully is the most patient man on television; It’s good to know Tim Tracy keeps a bowl of cookie dough in the fridge like the rest of us plebes; Please tell Reid Wilson, aka @ConsultReid, congratulations on his move to the Morning Consult; Michael Ramlet is building an empire; Kathleen Joyce continues to crush it at NBWA; Hollis Gurley is from Morristown NJ; Sometimes it’s worth vacationing Imperiale Style; Congratulations to Dena Battle and Jonathan Wolcott on their nuptials last weekend; Victoria Palmer‘s baby Goldeneye handily won pet of the week; Liz Eddy! We miss you; Where in the world is Chris Brooks?; Nina Shelat is a badass; Cyrus Krohn graduated; Yahoo! celebrated 20 years. Kenny Day is still the man; Matt Woelfel rocks his Shinola watch as any proud Michigander should; Rob Saliterman is gearing up to do BIG THINGS with Snapchat; Peter Cherukuri can pull off the seersucker like nobody’s business; Lauren French tells it like it is in Huddle (“AROUND THE HILL – Not much”); Mike Dankler shaved a MINUTE AND TWENTY EIGHT SECONDS off his 6 mile PR;
#BIRTHDAY
Happy birthday this weekend to Anne Brady Peron, Chuck Clapton, Britton Clarke, Rory Cooper, Sarah McDonald and Kasie Hunt; Wish Jillian Lane a happy birthday today;Brent DelMonte celebrated his 21st birthday; You only have two shopping days left to get birthday gifts for Anna Palmer, Matt Lakin and Kate Ackley Zeller; we hope Julia Judson-Rea had an amazing birthday week;
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
Tweets we liked you can RT, @mention, or just enjoy: billclinton; POTUS; andersoncooper; chrishams; MaryLeeShark; thisstuartlaws; marcia_bee;
#MEDIAMOVES by Bryant Row
Kimberly Hefling joins PoliticoPRO and the Politico education team (h/t Nirvi Shah); Garrett Quinn will join Boston Magazine as digital news editor; That’s L.D. Platt, Vice President of External Affairs Communications at UnitedHealth Group, to you; Tim Herrera moving from WaPo to NYT;
#CWSG
The Congressional Women’s Softball Game announced their lineup. For the Members: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Rep. Joyce Beatty (D, OH-3), Rep. Cheri Bustos (D, IL-17). Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Kathy Castor (D, FL-14), Rep. Katherine Clark (D, MA-5), Rep. Donna Edwards (D, MD-4), Rep. Renee Ellmers (R, NC-2), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D, HI-2), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D, NM-1), Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R, WA-3), Rep. Kristi Noem (R, SD – At Large), Rep. Martha Roby (R, AL-2), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R, FL-27), Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D, AZ-9), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D, FL-23), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21), Rep. Kathleen Rice (D, NY-4), Rep. Mia Love (R-UT-4); Coaches: Tori Barnes, Natalie Buchanan, Jim Kiley, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D, CO-7). For the Media: Jill Agostino, New York Times; Christina Bellantoni, Roll Call; Lisa Desjardins, PBS NewsHour; Elise Foley, Huffington Post; Emmarie Huetteman, New York Times; Caroline Horn, CBS News; Kasie Hunt, MSNBC; Jill Jackson, CBS News; Brianna Keilar, CNN; Tamara Keith, NPR; Abby Livingston, Texas Tribune; Carolyn Ryan, New York Times; Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times; Shawna Thomas, NBC; Amy Walter, Cook Political Report; Mikayla Bouchard, New York Times; Julie Percha, Washington Post; Coaches: Dave Espo, AP; Carl Hulse, New York Times; Frank Thorp, NBC;
#BYE
If you’re not already on the road, you’re doing it wrong. Happy Memorial Day weekend.