Famous Friday Round Up
#WEEKEND
Weather: Pull on those hunter boots and pop those umbrellas because Hurricane Joaquin is attempting to bring DC to a halt this weekend. Heavy rains and high winds will be blasting through the DC area with temperatures as low as 54.
Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Get in the Halloween Spirit and head over to Scream City; Hit up the Craft2Wear event at the National Building for some artistic fashion; Vegans and Vegetarians, VegFest is a perfect way to spend your weekend; Puddle jumping is always a classic favorite; Make your way over to the Taste of Georgetown; Take the Great Walk of Art throughout DC; Have the most epic Joaquin Pheonix movie marathon in lieu of the storm.
ROUNDUP PRESENTED BY
#NATIONAL
Your next beach vaca coming 2050; Time to dumb down; Adopt a Marco Rubio staffer!; We may experience Dunkin Doughnuts withdrawal; Mark Cuban scares the sh*t out of us about the future of social media; Way to go, NFL!; Parents may want to double check the content of this coloring book before passing it off to the little ones; Trump dons a man bun; The next big thing in fashion: human backpacks; But first, let me take a selfie (or 800); Mathew McConaughey bestows some serious wisdom.
#LOCAL
We love John Wall; We just can’t get enough of these Hillary emails; It’s love; Washington Post myth busters featuring online dating; Okay DC metro, we’ll give you this one; When you tell your friend’s secret that you really weren’t supposed to; Good thing we didn’t hold our breath; Bei Bei= best baby panda name ever; Meet the most powerful woman on Capitol Hill.
#ICYMI
Congress “brings the noise” against ovarian cancer; Landmark sets the bar high; 27 things you can do to prepare for hurricane Joaquin; Sean Spicer had a birthday; Famous Las Vegas.
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
@TheFix; @MikeMadden; @sppeoples; @Morning_Joe.
#BIRTHDAY
Famous birthday shoutouts to Sean Spicer, MacKenzie James, Max Weis, Emily Caruana, Doug Andres, Todd Malan, Ken Wingert, Collier Craft, Joanna Bednarek, Ida Rosenthal, Sean Spicer, Tory Skinner, Hank and Alex Fisher, Lexi Ashton, Lauren Gosgriff, Abby Miller, Bari Melissa, Lucy Swan, Sam Karastamatis, and Sean Spicer. Belated birthday wishes to Drew Goesl.
Also, Sean Spicer.
#FAMOUSFORDC
Ever wonder how Shawn Pasternak got his start? Tell Doug Andres happy birthday today and give him a hug in advance of his UGA Bulldogs lose tomorrow; Alex Schriver is still the man; We should go to lunch with Josh Shultz and Nathan Imperiale more often; Lauren Culbertson, Alex Finland, Brendan Buck and Doug Andres will have long, sad days on Saturday. #RollTide; Cyrus Krohn had his first virtual reality experience – and loved it; Hey Art Bochner!; Hammy and Indy made it on the DC snapchat story; Brian Johnson has really bumped up his Snapchat game; Amos Snead getting a slack.com account is the most exciting thing that’s happened today; Tell Susan Crabtree congratulations.
#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW
Ace Metrix establishes operations in DC and names industry veteran Mark F. Bryant VP & GM, Politics and Advocacy; The Arthur W. Page Society has named Chevron GM of public affairs Dave Samson as chairman, effective at the start of next year; Pepper Pennington Natonski, Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-N.C.) chief of staff, joins power company Duke Energy as director of federal government affairs, reporting to former Rep. Heath Shuler, senior vice president and head of the Washington office; Chamber of Commerce Chief David Chavern is headed to the Newspaper Association of America to hit his career peak as president and CEO; Colby Itkowitz at the Washington Post is switching gears from her current position over to their Inspired Life blog; Matthew Boyle takes on his new role as political editor for Breitbart News.
#BYE
RIP weekend picnic plans.
