by Nicole Tieman We’ve all heard it time and again- “it’s not what you know, but who you know,” particularly in DC, where who you know you can make or break your career. For anyone with social anxiety and uncontrollable awkwardness, this is a cringe-worthy fact. As an unenthusiastic happy …

As usual, kids can’t sled on the Capitol’s hill [fuddy duddy regulations] Watch Billy Eichner yell at Michelle Obama [for loving veggies] “Crazed millennial snowballers” descend on [Meridian Hill Park] Photo by Jim Havard from the FamousDC Flickr Pool

This Friday evening, Feb. 20, The George Town Club is holding a special edition of its Q&A Cafe, “Crisis Cocktails.” Carol Ross Joynt will moderate, and if you haven’t been to one of Carol’s live interviews before, you’re missing out. She’s a master of the craft and has talked to …

Once, people believed D.C. was glamorous. They were tricked by the travel industry. See more D.C. vintage travel posters over here at Curbed.

The BBC reports that the Washington Monument has .. well, shrunk. The stone obelisk was completed in 1884 and since then tour guides and others have dutifully quoted its height at 555ft and 5.13ins (169.3m). But US government surveyors said on Monday the column is 554ft and 7.34ins. Read more …

Ok, so it’s not, but you didn’t hear it from us, you heard it from: http://www.metroissuegenerator.com/ Photo by Flickr user Sergio Feria

Kevin Wolf did it again: he took the non-memorable and ordinary in the DC are (in this case the Dulles Airport shuttle) and made it look magical in his photo. Bravo.

“Oh. Look. Snow. I will stop by grocery store on way home” – said EVERY person in DC right now. — FamousDC (@FamousDC) February 16, 2015 If you ever doubted how quickly society could fall into chaos – you should visit a DC Harris Teeter before a snowstorm. — FamousDC …

Last night, Famous DC attended the GOP 2016 Kickoff Happy Hour hosted by Google and Facebook. Held at city-chic bar and restaurant Silo, located in Mt. Vernon Triangle, the event was teeming with GOP social media pros. Guests bellied up to the open bar, snacked on everything from oysters to …

#NATIONAL This guy is on his videobomb game; Twitter feed from 12-1PM yesterday = “OBAMA USED A SELFIE STICK OMG“; The government knows how to use Twitter; RIP David Carr and Bob Simon; Google and Mattel are ready to suck all fun out of the View Master; awwwwwwwww; the war …

Mike Juley with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel rounded up some amazing tips, meant for journalists but these are just amazing tips in general. 1. Ignore the haters. Time spent with them is time wasted. 2. Appreciate the work of your colleagues, and tell them so. 3. Know that, as busy …

It’s cold, but there’s cool stuff to do this weekend.

We forget about Weird Al, then he goes and does something like this. h/t Lori “WSB” Brown Gwen Stefani videobomb A video posted by Al Yankovic (@alfredyankovic) on Feb 10, 2015 at 4:52pm PST