#WEEKEND
Weather: This is a joke right? Temperatures as low as 10 degrees will be blowing through DC this frosty weekend.
Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Check out Cupid’s Undie Run on Saturday; Take the kids to family fun day at the National Portrait Gallery; Head over to Chinatown on Sunday for its annual Chinese New Year parade; Make sure to take full advantage of the Valentine’s Day happy hours and drink specials.
#WATCH
Can Chef Geoff Tracy make a pizza blindfolded?
Watch and see.
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#NATIONAL
Houston, we’re having a party; This just in: Every candidate has great crowds at their campaign events in SC; Space + Tourism = these cool posters; It’s come to this, huh?; Bernie Sanders has raised 100,000,000 million billion dollars online since NH; RIP Barney; She gave me a cough and shake; Make no mistake… Trump makes no mistakes; Ooh… berrrnnnn; Maybe Eli Manning was really happy, but just had botox injections done; If Pablo has nine lives, we’re gonna be stuck with Kanye for a while; Warning: This video from Patagonia about a man and his dog might make you cry at work; Why would anyone ever question Einstein?; These pizza deliveries are completely unacceptable.
#LOCAL
Let it snow!; 64 year old Bethesda lawyer accidentally gets 300 requests for free Chipotle Burritos; Rumors of The Thing’s demise are premature; Ron Bonjean is on TV across the pond; It’s like going on a blind date… but with your apartment; Our mouths just watered; But Mommmmm, everybody’s doing it!; This seems uber familiar; Let’s hope this DC cab app fares better than the last attempt; DC’s worst dates told by bartenders; You really need to break up with the district streetcar, DC; Not sure how this is going to work but ok; Don’t blow it on Valentine’s Day, click here.
#ICYMI
Friday Grind
Chef Geoff Tracy Makes a Pizza Blindfolded
S-3 Group and Bryant Row Team Up to Create S-3 Public Affairs
It’s Better to be Single in DC on Valentine’s Day
DC Students Take on New Hampshire
New Hampshire Ave. Poll Results
Famous 5 – Kristen Soltis Anderson
Surprise Wilco Performance at NPR’s Tiny Desk
DC Goes North – Thank You Politico
The NPF Celebrates 40 Years of Esteemed Journalism
#EDITORSPICK
ROSES ARE RED. VIOLETS ARE BORING. (CHECK OUT THESE VALENTINES INSTEAD)
#BIRTHDAY
Famous brithday wishes to Amos Snead; Pat Gorman; Taylor Tobian; Riley Jenkins; Olivia Martiz; Alexander Schroder; Kati Tan; Gavin Clark; Krista Becker; Katie French; Lindsay Gesel; Jaron Snyder; Kristi Augenblick; Tammy Wetzel; Anna Tolner; Sarah Hudson; Charlotte Sellmyer; Sofya Leonova; Heather Date; Charlotte Sellmyer; Mark Seacat; Alison Smyth Lynn; Allison Steely; Bobby Honold; Kerry Feehery; Chris Hodgson.
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
bcdiff; ComfortablySmug; mattyglesias; zenametal; BuzzFeedAndrew
#FAMOUSFORDC
Congrats to Michael Kaplan on the new gig with Jon Black at Cascade Strategies; Gerrit Lansing is a competitive capitalist; Wolf Blizter is a sharp-dressed, good looking man; Anna Palmer, are you going to join us in Houston?; Jocelyn Quinn, let us know if you’d like to write for us; Matt Lakin and Johnny Destefano can stop by anytime; Shots fired; Sean Spicer has risen to a new level of internet stardom; Can someone let us know when Michael Bloomberg is gonna #spiceitup and join the race?; Hats off to Ed Pesce for his 15 years of service; Congrats to Sarah Ghessie for passing the HR Certification Exam!; We’d like to have been a fly on the wall for the Sanders Sharpton lunch; Stephen Collinson has an interesting beat; Tommy McFly really knows how to work a poll; When is Cara Becker moving here already?; We think Tom Simei is still at brunch. Can Heather Dean confirm?; Christa D’Amico better start training for that 5k; What’s Troy Lyons up to this weekend?; Lauren Hagen is gonna see a movie with her rooms at some point; Paige Gress gives the best Valentines; Nikki Burdine knows how to have fun on the job; Howard Mortman is still EXTREME (video coming shortly); Huge congrats to Alexandra Tennant on passing her Foreign Service exam!; Is Lindsey Miller enjoying Columbia Heights?; We couldn’t be happier for Mal Kennedy for getting into Columbia University graduate school!; D. Archibald Smart knows the correct way to use FamousDC mugs.
#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW
Jean Case was named the first female chair at the National Geographic Society; Lindsay Walters joins the RNC as a National Spokesperson; TNR brings on Brian Beutler as the host of their new Politics Podcast; Michael Lutzky joins NPR; WaPo names Lori Montgomery their new deputy national editor.
#BYE
Your reward for reading this email is a three day weekend. You’re welcome.
