Famous Friday Round Up
#WEEKEND
Weather: Autumn is upon us Washingtonians, but this hasn’t put a halt on the DC heat. Keep the sunscreen handy and be rain ready. Saturday will be sunny with a high of 79 followed by rain showers on Sunday.
Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Head out to the DC Shorts festival; See Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; Hit up the fairgrounds for the Truckeroo festival; Enjoy a day in the neighborhood at Columbia Heights Day; Spend your Sunday at Adams Morgan Day; Catch the Death Cab for Cutie concert; Chill out at Storey Park for their Curbside Cookoff event.
#NATIONAL
Apple has to be messing with us, right?; Football. Is. Back.; NO NEW FRIENDS; Definitely not a DNB; We’ll have a McLuminati (h/t Brian Johnson); Don’t ask Serena why she’s not smiling; One billion waffles; The GOP 10 California bound; Summer is over, put your shirt back on; We Can Do It!; Who’s ready to party with us in Vegas?; Biden and Colbert speak candidly; “I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people – and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” – President Bush, September 14, 2001; No no please no; These parents though; FINALLY a middle finger emoji.
#LOCAL
These ten DC people are SO HOT right now (but actually); Only 323 more days until August recess; Pope Francis prefers Jeep Wranglers to PT Cruisers when in America; And his own Popemoji to all other emoji; The highest of fives for this Metro driver; “I love my job” said no one while cleaning up the National Building Museum beach; Adams Morgan Day returns; Another day, another Trader Joe’s on Capitol Hill; Best bars where you can watch NFL games; There are already save-the-dates for DC Christmas events in September; Eastern Market has goats?!; Slow clap for NBC4; These signs are way too neatly written to be real; Enjoy the Fall – the best time to live in Washington, D.C.; Save the date for February 11, 2016 for the National Press Foundation Annual Awards Dinner.
#ICYMI
The Nats lost something, have you seen it?; LinkedIn can make you a super model; Black meets Biden; What the truck?; Presidential Candidate Bucket List.
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
eliseviebeck; RepMarkTakano; MEPFuller; itgetsbedder.
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#BIRTHDAY
Congrats on being born! Alex Russ, Craig Dulniak, Michael Maroney, Brendan Corcoran, Brittany Johnson Hernandez, Natalie Mamerow, Sara Bonjean, Kevin Davis, Deidra Olson, Natalie Voos, Riley McCarthy, Henry Williams, Melissa Gerace, Cailin Walsh, Meghan Sullivan, Max Feldman, Perry Albert, Natalie Baker Shultz, Jon Downs, Brian Diffell, Alison Harden Siciliano, Tina Gray Pelkey, Matt Mackowiak, Mal Kennedy, Katie Baskin, Anna Woodruff, Rachel Koch, Craig Cassidy, Becca Hurst, Lauren Donnelly.
#FAMOUSFORDC
We see you, Frank Hollowell; Famous best wishes to Toby Fallsfraff and Laura Wilson; Jimmy Walsh wins hashtag generator this week; What’s Robby Wehagen up to?; Congratulations Akshai Datta and Natalie Mamerow; Max Gigle needs to watch this; We’re absolutely loving Patrick Gavin‘s new series about trying to land an interview with the President; Thank you Ericka Andersen for the shout out yesterday; Kurt Holmgren is back stateside – at least for now; ATL’s favorite son, Court Lanio, bought himself a selfie stick; Todd Carney is leaving DC; Josh Shultz charges for high-fives; Does Sean Spicer still read this?; Freddy Barnes is getting a new mug; Alex McCoy’s Thai restaurant, Alphie’s, will be DC’s new hotspot this November.
#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW
CNN snatched Masuma Ahuja from Washington Post as their new social apps producer; Big congratulations to Karen Chevalier, Chad Smolinski, Chris DiCosmo, and Kim Castro on their new promotions at U.S. News; Tim Grieve is taking the next step and joining The McCarthy Company; Dan Berman is leaving National Journal and starting a new position with CNN Politics; Elisabeth Bumiller has been named bureau chief of the NYT; Patricia Fili-Krushel is moving on from NBC Universal.
#BYE
Beach body.
