Famous Friday Round Up
#WEEKEND
Weather: Expect a cloudy weekend with a bit of sun shining through on Saturday. Temps in the forties but no snow in sight.
Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Port City Brewing won best small brewery in America AND is throwing a 5th Anniversary Party; The American Ballet Theatre is performing Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty; Restaurant Week DC has been extended so that you can spend more money and eat more carbs.
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Taste of the South’s 2016 charity gala featuring southern fare and libations will be held on Saturday, April 16th at the Washington Hilton. Tickets are set to go on sale on Friday, March 11th. Taste of the South supports deserving charities from 13 southern states plus D.C.
Those winter blues got you down? Join Taste of the South for a pre-party on Friday, February 5th.
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#NATIONAL
Debate winner: anyone who didn’t grade the candidates after the debate; Every presidential ad in one place – have fun nerds; The National Review is crushing the political beat; Smile, not because it’s Friday, but just because; Super useful info for, ya know… in case; What the hell is going on Phelps?; Barbie now comes in more shapes and sizes than “disproportionately skinny”; Disturbing on so many levels; We still think Big Bird is unusually sized; Bad news for workaholics, you actually need to sleep; Mysterious illnesses on planes are terrifying; Brands have once again jumped the shark; Calling all reality show creators; Real American hero throws a tomato at Donald Trump; Great “Hungry Like The Wolf” cover; What neighborhood would this happen in, if it were DC?; Well YEAH: shoveling < Xbox; Steven Tyler should be featured in every weather report; Yes here is the epic WEST – WIZ Twitter feud in all its glory; Why cockfighting (yes, really) is legal in Puerto Rico; Facebook is blowing up the Like button; Great Scott – Deloreans are back in production; TED CRUZ LIKES NICKELBACK!?; Snow does sound ridiculous.
#LOCAL
A phrase you don’t usually hear: Good job, Pepco; The real Snowzilla; Goodbye Millie & Al’s – DC needs new dives; BRB finding this speechwriting robot; DC issues $1.4M in parking tickets after blizzard, which seems totally fair; A surprising take on DC’s inability to handle snow; Woodley Park snow time lapse by Sean McNally (h/t Emily Dahl); DC Police had a pickup football game with residents in the blizzard; For some reason the Snow Dragon doesn’t seem like it’s the ideal answer; This Regal Gallery movie theatre rant sounds personal; DC took up a really interesting hobby during the blizzard.
#ICYMI
POLITICO
Friday Grind
Exclusive Interview with Donald Trump
Top 10 Worst Things About Working in a Congressional Office
Famous Feedback: Storm Jonas
Snow Over It
Through the Lens – Ben Carver
How to Use Blizzard Jonas as an Excuse All Week
How F*cked are DC Road Conditions
WATCH LIVE: Snowfall From the FamousDC Offices
#EDITORSPICK
KATHRYN LYONS JOINS FROM NBC NEWS
FamousDC Continues to Expand with New Video Series, Managing Editor
Washington, DC – FamousDC this week named Kathryn Lyons as Managing Editor of the growing media company. In this new role, Kathryn will launch a brand new video series and oversee all content.
Kathryn and the FamousDC video series, like all FamousDC content, will provide a unique and exclusive insight into the events and people everyone in Washington, D.C. is talking about.
#BIRTHDAY
Speaker Ryan; Brennan Killeen; John Shepard; Chris Anderson; Alison Sinton; R.J. Clarke celebrates the big 4-0; Justin Vogt; Caitlin Poling; Michael Lewan; Grace Anne Ma; Sonya Spery; Mary Gunion; Curtis Lester; Dan Bunting; Karl Hall; Ashley Miller; Elle Floresque; Denise Grabianowski; Shelby Fay; Chloe Glover; Matt Shea; Linda Groff-Mroz; Brianne Ellis; Graham Moller; Kara Kane; Lauren Molony; Dillon Pershyn.
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
DougHeye; TonyRomm; ConsultReid; danbutler_55; BenjySarlin; lculbs; ThamKhaiMeng; GlennThrush; fmanjoo; SeanBlanda
#FAMOUSFORDC
Congrats to mattklewis‘s new book “Too Dumb to Fail”; Keep grinding Linda Shultz; Thank you for the kind words Matt Lira; Congrats to Michael Lewan on being named one of the top innovators for advocacy in DC; We give Sean Spicer’s video work a B-; Anton! Let’s do this…; NY Times writer Emma Graves Fitzsimmons = former baby model; Dick Armey loves his Gold Wing; Raise your hand if you played games at Sonoma this week!; Congrats to Noah and Sarah Lieb on the birth of their twin girls; The Snow Dragon is pretty much the best thing to have come to RFK in… a long time; Katy Ricalde gets serious work done, even without a desk; Todd Harris was on Showtime – we are officially jealous; Congrats to Peter Tabibian on Z-Burger’s 10 year anniversary; Awesome article by Noelle Clemente; We found a clip from an old interview with Rodell Mollineau; Caitlin Rourk is rocking it at Dynamis Strategies; Rebecca Matulka gave away a few secrets about Twitter and Instagram this week; Welcome to the world Aiden Barth; Won’t someone help Christin Fernandez dig out her Camry!?; Congrats on sending your first press release, Emilija Grace; When will Victoria Pasko be on Jeopardy?; Zoe Cianciolo is the proudest new Aunt on the planet; Congrats to Lauren and Sterling on welcoming their baby boy; Kristen Soltis Anderson is a rockstar in more ways than one; What is Paige Gress asking for for her birthday?; Mark Borelli and Jordan Cooper are leaving Glover Park and moving to China… town; Thanks to Mike Dunkle, Kathryn’s car is out of the snow back on the road; Kathryn Lyons is killin’ it, just ask us.
#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW
“Jim VandeHei, Kim Kingsley, Roy Schwartz, Mike Allen and Danielle Jones have told me of their wish to move on from POLITICO. Jim, Mike and Roy will be here through the 2016 election; Kim will be with us until early summer. Danielle plans to leave before then. These transitions make perfect sense for the publication, coming a decade (almost to the day) after I recruited them to join this cause.” – Robert Allbritton, founder and publisher of POLITICO
John Harris will take on the title of publisher in addition to editor in chief and Susan Glasser will become director of editorial innovation
To honor the big changes going on at POLITICO, we took a trip down memory lane, recognizing past and present talent that the company has become known for.
Congratulations to Mary Leschper on moving from Capitol Hill to API; Allison Schneider is the new Director of Communications at Locust Street Group; Jonathan Allen joined Sidewire to work on community and content and explains why; Sarah Mills recently joined the District Policy Group as Senior Government Relations Manager; Patrick Reis is returning to POLITICO as deputy national editor; Amanda Cox named editor of NYT’s The Upshot (h/t Politico); MTV News is bringing in the big guns and ramping up its political media presence with Ana Marie Cox and Jaime Fuller; The American Association of Airport Executives appointed Gwen Basaria as its first ever vice president of member delight and engagement.
#BYE
If we ever see snow again it will be too soon.
