Famous Friday Round Up
#SNAPCHAT
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#WEEKEND
Sunday is the winner AGAIN this week: Saturday 90 °F and thunderstorms; Sunday 91 °F and partly sunny;
#NATIONAL
Blind Melon’s “No Rain” was released in 1992; RIP Christopher Lee; hospital price gouging; the President did not have relations with a cigarette; cool to see how famous brands’ logos evolved; take that, Zuckster; amazing optical illusion on the streets of San Francisco; Interns of DC: you could have it worse if you were interning on Wall Street; Sasha Obama is 14 already!; Airlines want to shrink the size of carry on luggage; Cuomo has a pot problem; Click bait journalism; Please tell us this is a real thing;
#DISTRICT
We heard that Real Housewives of DC is coming back; “Watch this“; the most brilliant DC word you never knew is escaleftors; Need a vacation, stat? We figured out the top 5 destinations in the DC area; Catch the Bill Christenberry exhibit at Logan Circle’s Hemphill Fine Arts, now through August 1st; Does the Hirshhorn have windows?; Not COOL bro; Cloture Club did a great Congressional Baseball game wrapup; Fritz Hahn asks people around the District about the best summer beers; Guess what? Barry Manilow, that’s what; TP 4 NKOTB?; Dead guy went unnoticed in the Metro for 4 days; The WCP Food Issue; D.C. Newswomen > Newsbabes; Same-sex and straight couples from around the DMV will say “Yes!” during event at The Embassy Row Hotel this Saturday;
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
Tweets you can RT, @mention, or just enjoy: tomgara; anthonyweiner; drewmagary; CIA; ha_na_nah; BuzzFeedAndrew; Darth; cerenomri;
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#BIRTHDAY
Happy Birthday, Lindsey Williams Drath; Steve Schwab celebrated his birthday with the Senators Dole at The Hay Adams; Happy birthday week to Victoria Palmer Pasko, Janie Sheehan and Lori Brown; Only two shopping days left for Amber Marchand and Lauren Griffin Hamel birthday gifts; Happy birthday and happy trails Whitney Mello!;
#FAMOUSFORDC
Mike Steel is still in Miami; Robert Gibbs loves a McDonald’s Happy Meal; Nobody can refresh a page, or a career like Benny Johnson; Famous 5 with the founder of Messenger Beauty Markette Smith Sheppard; Stoney Burke & Josefina Urzaiz welcomed her sister to DC and onto the “circuit”; Jake Tapper is taking back Sunday; Bennett Richardson and Lindsey are moving to Brussels #RoyaleWithCheese; US Travel blitzed the Congressional Baseball game; Morgan Ortagus is back in DC for the Miss DC pageant this weekend; Mollie Camp caught #NKOTB in concert; Danny Diaz became Jeb’s Campaign Manager, and his Boss calls him a “grinder.” (Not to be confused with Grindr.); Jennfier Morris & Jenifer Sarver are drinking their way through Columbia. Cheers!; Amanda Carpenter is leaving Senator Ted Cruz’s operation and joining journalism again; Jackson Verhoff is 2 months old; Annie Baker Hoar has been missing her pug, Senator; Sarah Smart is in Paris and complaining about it;Olivia McDonald joined Team Boehner; We launched a political Snapchat channel so Will Kennan will throw a party with us in DC; Give Alex Smith, Gus Portela, Stefanie Petropoulos, Catherine Cypher and Carolina Hurley a high-five for crushing their conference this weekend; Famous Will Hurd; Happy 14th Anniversary to Geoff Tracy and Norah O’Donnell – we hope you celebrated with #bacon; Tell Neil Chatterjee congratulations on graduating to First Grade. #WeBelievedInYou; Ask Clinton Yates who he’s got winning the NBA Finals and whether he liked the game; Tell Jaime Harrison congratulations on launching “Chair Chats” #DoBigThings; Steny Hoyer > Tim Cook; Is Charlotte Sellmyer a great photographer – or the greatest?; Ask Lily Muntziing is USC is going to be any good at football this year?; Will this be the first Friday Round-Up that Alison Hawkins reads?; Congrats to Garrett Jackson who married a fellow Ole Miss graduate, Suzanne Weaver this past weekend; Todd Carney is looking for roommates; Happy 1st Birthday to Emmy Grace Summer Taylor; Tyler Roberts is now rocking the standing desk at work; Has Erin Veltman asked her physical therapist on a date yet?; Danny Diaz will need to buy a few bottles of SPF 45; Ballsy move by Vince Harris;
#BYE
Good weekends never die, they only fade away.