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Virgin Mobile Free Fest Winner
Congratulations to Tommy Sheridan, a legislative assistant at the National Head Start Association for submitting the winning photo in our Virgin Mobile Free Fest Contest. Tommy took the prize of four tickets to Virgin Mobile’s Free Fest, along with four digital cameras and 2×3 printers from Polaroid, with 75% of …
Esquire Endorses…Mitt Romney’s Hair
The Endorsement: Mitt Romney’s Hair Romney’s haircut makes him look like a lot of things: a caberet singer, an enthusiastic Elvis impersonator, a Mormon. But there’s one thing it does not make him look like: a politician. Unlike Harry Reid, John Edwards, and anyone on Meet the Press, he doesn’t …
Can We Draft Jonathan Grella on our Fantasy Football Team?
The Bucs are undefeated and Grella’s Twitter machine is on fire. RELATED: Grella goes 1-0 in Tampa Bay
About That Tax Increase …
Roll Call’s Annual Look at the 50 Richest Members of Congress Top Five: 1. John Kerry ($188 million) 2. Darrell Issa ($160 million) 3. Jane Harman ($152 million) 4. Jay Rockefeller ($81 million) 5. Michael McCaul ($73 million)
Lady Gaga Tries To Phone Sens. Schumer And Gillibrand…They Don’t Answer
About 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the clip. Perhaps they were both out in the club and a sippin’ that bub? And although she vows to call again and again, she should know that that blowin’ up their phones won’t make them leave no faster, put their coats on …
Pet Night On Capitol Hill
Our tip box received a press release regarding Pet Night on the Hill, so we clicked through. And found some gems: RELATED: Pet Night on Capitol Hill 2009
Go Remy: Metro Song
FamousDC fave Remy is at it again. [We must be at Foggy Bottom – I just got crop-dusted] H/T TBD RELATED: Famous 5: Go Remy
Robert Gibbs vs. John Boehner
Robert Gibbs and The New York Times spent the weekend tangling with House Minority Leader John Boehner and his staff. In today’s wired world, the story doesn’t stop on the printed pages of the newspaper. Boehner’s press shop spent the weekend neutralizing the hit piece and Robert Gibbs took to …
Ana Marie Cox Loves Famous-for-DC
Spotted on FishbowlDC: Losing 1.3% of my Twitter followers is the kind of tragedy I would write a mocking Tweet about had I not come to realize that covering the minutiae of the lives and careers of the “famous-for-DC” is exactly sort of bottom-of-the-bellybutton [sic] scraping that has caused so …
NFL Bar Watching Guide #DC
The NFL Season is upon us and all of our teams are undefeated (except Vikings fans). As a favor to all of our readers, we’ve compiled a list of the best bars to watch your favorite NFL games. FamousDC Presents … The DC NFL Bar Watching Guide Arizona Cardinals – …
Famous C-SPAN Coffee
Thanks to our Extreme friends over at C-SPAN we now take our morning coffee in a more fashionable manner. Speaking of mugs … where will the next FamousDC mug show up?
Election Season Madness is Upon Us #TwitterWars
Lots of options with this one: Twitter: where elections are won & lost Two Twitterers enter, one Twitterer leaves Carpet bagging: still relevant in 2010 The Hill’s Elise Viebeck: Democrats rip NRCC spokesman for tweeting addresses of staffers Democrats are demanding that an NRCC staffer be fired for tweeting the …