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The Must-Have Convention Ticket

Kurtz: The “Frill” is Gone Perhaps the shift also reflects a boredom with Washington in the eighth year of the Bush presidency, at a time when terror alerts have faded and Congress seems gridlocked about everything. If so, more papers might shore up their bureaus at the start of an …

OK, so August is still here. If we aren’t on a CODEL, leading energy revolutions on the House floor, or back tracking on drilling proposals, what should we do with all of our free time? We’ve decided to take this moment to investigate where DC get its daily conventional wisdom. …

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Yes, even FamousDC takes breathers. Luckily, Daily Render doesn’t. Ever had a bike ride home by DC’s Theivery Corporation? Enjoy We can’t do any better. Period.

Guide to Wearing Headbands [Blowtorch] Overlooked NFL team [skins] Gitmo on the Platte [Denver] Bats in the Cave [prince] I Am Very Rich [iPhone] We Agree [flip cup] Tell All [Sanchez]

This “job opening” has been making the rounds on the hill during this slow recess week: Staff Assistant – Congressman Hova’s Office has an immediate opening for a Staff Assistant.  Responsibilities include running the streets, stacking cheese, and assisting House offices in tasks such as rain making and “tricking hoes …

We’re still 100% thankful Gilbert Arenas is staying in D.C. and we love reading his blog updates on basketball, video games and life. Arenas is actually our second favorite DC area sports blogger (we got you Cooley!). His latest blog post covers the NBA trades and free agent moves, the …

Blog P.I. brings us the latest on the NMS – CSPAN announcement: I don’t write about clients often. When I do it’s really something, and this is really something: New Media Strategies will be working through the conventions with C-SPAN, perhaps my favorite Beltway news organizations, to run their Convention …

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Yep, it’s coming. Yeas and Nays: It’s Official: D.C. Gets Its Own Reality Show DCist: LNS Reality Show to Follow Project Runway on Lifetime Previously: DCist: Reality Show Based on Late Night Shots in the Works

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What would a Paris Hilton Administration look like? Ramin Setoodeh: Ms. Hilton Goes to Washington Our favorite of Adam McKay’s top 7: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would become more Parisian in other ways. “Instead of a bowling alley in the basement of the White House, Paris would have a Pilates studio. …

Captain Chaos picked the right winners for his beard contest. Please click to see the pictures. This definitely went too far… Chris Cooley’s Blog: Beard Co-Champions How am I going to explain myself to brothers with amazing beards when I shaved mine off a week early? Well, by crowning them …