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#RisingDigitalStars

Thank you to everyone who came out and celebrated FamousDC’s Best of Digital – and congratulations to our rising digital stars for 2018! A big thank you to our sponsor Resonate, co-sponsor Targeted Victory and hosts Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America, Microsoft, MV Digital Group, NJI Media and S-3 Public Affairs for helping us put on a great event!

Check out the complete list of winners and event photos!

#Weekend

Awesome events: The FIST continues this weekend! No, we’re not encouraging violence – it’s like March Madness, but for improv duh; Imagine Star Wars, but a burlesque rendition. It’s not weird – it’s going down tonight at Black Cat; The Wharf is kicking off it’s inaugural Fire and Ice Festival on Saturday featuring fire twirlers (fire) and an ice sculptor (ice) – Mind. Blown; Take a step back in time with some cask ales (basically beer, but it sounds sophisticated) at Denizens Brewing Co’s annual Winter Cask Classic on Saturday – hockey is included; Or maybe beer isn’t your thing and barley wine is (also, v sophisticated sounding), in which case, head on over to Mad Fox Brewing for not one, but a TWO-day 8th annual Barleywine Festival; And for Sunday? Relax. Recover. Reboot

#Watch

Here’s an interview that went so wrong it felt so right to release it. We’re not sure what to make of this so if you do, please let us know. In the meantime, grab the popcorn.

#NewsYouCanUse

DC’s cherry blossoms DGAF about your schedule; Speaking of, here is a training program for that little 10-mile race; Congress is reserving one of the nation’s greatest distinctions for Reverend Billy Graham; Sooo is Oprah running for president?; At least DC airports had a good year; A major shout and much respect to Director of Constituent Services for Rep. Will Hurd, Jon Arnold who’s teaming up with NFL stars for a great charitable cause in East Africa; Now this is what we call a Chevy Chase.

#FamousForDC

Congratulations Amanda Falkner and Ben Khouri on your engagement! (h/t Playbook); Safe travels to Allison Cunningham; We didn’t get to spend enough time with Howard Mortman on Wednesday and feel terrible about it; Shout out to Samantha Stark and Burkaker!; Lara Aulestia is joining the SoulCycle craze; Drew Ellis, get your Round Up items in; Alison Friedrich and Diana Marrero are up to big things over at The Hill; Happy Go Texan Day to all of our favorite Texans; Is Kevin Madden ever going to invite us to play golf?; Shawna Thomas knows a good National Anthem; We’re thinking about taking Daniel Lippman curling; We’re gonna miss Jonah Van Why; Against his best efforts, Jake Wilkins will not make the Round Up this week; We’re loving this interview with Peter Alexander on being a dad; Give Jared Parks a high five next time you see him; Huge shoutout to Ryan Fitzpatrick, Gary Sherwood, and Lewis Muller; Kristin Blaser is the best; Ask Melissa Enriquez where to get brunch in DC; John Starkey is ready for springtime; Kelsey Lubatkin thanks for coming to see us!; Kendall Forward has great style; We want Matt Hallerto iron our stuff too; Happy Jeb!-versary Jordan Frasier; Mary Bruce made a friend in Texas; Mary Caswell had an event-full Wednesday; Rachel Adler is kind of a big deal; John Scofield pushed S-3 to the limit Wednesday morning with Corey Belin’s (Not Barry’s) bootcamp and of course we posted them on insta; Tara Palmeri’s got it covered; We’re so glad Riva Littman is feeling better!; Sorry we’re a week late Sean Hayes; Summer Bravo’s totally burned Matt and it was amazing; Welcome back Drake Springer & Mattie Duppler!; How was the “Manhattan drip coffee” Neils Lesniewski?; Kaya Singleton is not having fun in Florida; We hope Brian Wohlert is having fun on vacation; Edgar Estrada knows how to do London well; Kate Murphy crushed her panel at MakeOffices Launch this week; Congrats to Ally and Alex Sailer on the birth of their beautiful baby boy!; Sarah Schladen Smart, we back you 1000%; Michael Kelley is a great American; Serena Ardizzoia take us to Italy with you; Neil Chatterjee needs a travel show; Kathryn Hazeem Lehmanmakes us happy; Does John Patrick Feehery have a national radio show yet?; We love Cindy Ziegler; We love your Facebook feed, Ashley Westby; Patrick Wyman’s podcasts are phenomenal; Sean Mandell of the TMZ needs to come work for us; Jennifer Hodges Kozlow, we need a FamousDC Disney World trip; Taz Jones KNOWS The Futurebirds

#MakingMoves by S-3 Public Affairs

Congrats to Ian Martorana on his new gig as a senior account manager at The Bulleit Group. Martorana most recently was press secretary for Speaker Ryan and before this, communications director for Rep. Bilirakis (R-CO); From USA Today, Sara Sorcher is joining the Washington Post as deputy editor of PowerPost; Lead political writer for The Sacramento Bee Christopher Cadelago is joining Politico as a White House correspondent; The Weekly Standard has named The New Atlantis’ Christine Rosen as managing editor; Former press secretary for the Republican Party of Wisconsin Jesse Dougherty has joined the Republican Party of Iowa as communications director; Kim McIntyre, most recently assistant director of broadcasting for The Heritage Foundation, has joined DCI Group as a national media strategist; Former chief of staff to Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH) Rick Limardo is leaving his post as coalitions director for the House Ways and Means Committee to join MGM Resorts International as vice president of federal government affairs; Current press secretary for Rep. Raul Ruiz Alex Macfarlane is making moves to the office of Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) as communications director; After three years with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, director of media & external communications Megan Van Etten is making moves to PhRMA as senior director of public affairs; From 270 Strategies, Keosha Varela recently joined InterAction as its new communications director; The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace welcomes Douglas Farr, previously assistant director of public affairs for the Aspen Institute, as its new head of media relations; And finally, a big congratulations to veteran reporter Margaret Brennan on her new role as host of CBS News Sunday program “Face the Nation.”  Brennan will host her first program this Sunday and will also continue to serve as a senior foreign affairs correspondent for the network. #DoBigThings 
  

#Birthdays

Famous birthday wishes to Grace Lamb-Atkinson, Marissa Mitrovich, Michelle Santuoso, Merris Badcock, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Lee Moretz, Christa D’Amico, Mike Cugno, Beloved intern Josh Snead, Michelle Cho, Arjun Mody (h/t Jay-Z), Emily Zanotti Skyles, Molly Hooper, Michael Calvo, #PWS Joel Snead, Greg Crist, Jonathan Nabavi, Alex Swoyer, Stacey Johnson Hutchinson, Jill Chappell Adly, Liz Laurie Bogie, Andrew FImka, Andrea Riccio, Bob Brennan, Leslie Lake and Casey Duggan!

#BYE

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