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Maegan Carberry and Leslie Sanchez hit the Couture for a Cure DKNY fashion show, Operation Top Kill worked -then didn’t – then sort of did, BP went back to their Mad Libs book to come up with another ludicrous sounding plan to stop the worst oil spill in U.S. history, …

Sure, others may spin at Privilege in Ibiza‎, but who else can say they’ve been all DJ quick hands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? DJ Truman in the House, er, the White House!

Check out Katherine Cotsonas’ new site: Gab Girl Glam

Sure, Dale Peterson had a horse and a gun and complained about Facebook and yard signs. But that was Alabama. Welcome to California, where Democrat Richard Aguirre has a surf board, Hawaiian shirt, and is complaining about Jerry Brown’s thugs messing with his Wikipedia page. Also, enjoy the Led Zeppelin …

FamousDC Nightlife Correspondent @BlairDC brings us the Famous 5: Top Summer Happy Hour Spots. Summer brings an excitement for the outdoors and mingling, and what better way to unwind after a long day at work than to meet friends for happy hour. Here are some of the tried and true …

Ars Technica: New political taunt: We have more Facebook friends than you In a sign of just how mainstream social networking has become, Republicans have now taken to bragging that they “out-tweet” the Democrats—and have more Facebook friends, too. Yesterday, Congressional Republicans launched America Speaking Out, a new website that …

Aaron Blake Tweets: DSCC tweets and posts Biden’s Blumenthal comments. Whoops http://2.ly/bmya UPDATE: The link is dead (Contentless Rant), but we got a screen grab.

We here at FDC have been very vocal about our dislike of Foursquare. Matter of fact, we’ve gone as far as stating that Foursquare “serves no purpose beyond helping you stalk strangers.” Perhaps it’s our fear of knowing too much personal information about people. Or perhaps it’s because we don’t …

Here’s another guest column by FamousDC Nightlife Correspondent @BlairDC AC Milan rolled into town yesterday and I got a glimpse of the dashing “football” players as they checked into the Hotel Sofitel (see pic below). Much to my delight, I had a chat with both Alessandro Nesta and Ronaldinho! Amazing …

We hope you had a good weekend and didn’t drunk dial David Axelrod.

DCist: Overheard in DC Congressional humor Outside the House side of the Capitol building: Men in suits are walking past the man who dresses like Jesus who is outside the Capitol a lot. Man in a suit: “For what purpose does the gentleman from Nazareth rise? … The gentleman from …

Albritton scooped up DCist’s Sommer Mathis for TBD.com, House floor speeches can be boring, Clinton Portis has a stripper pole in his basement, @BlairDC gave us her favorite top 5 rooftop bars, bring it Mayweather, so what’s the deal?, Chris Frates finally took a vacation, public service for Congressional press …

Apparently size matters. “They’re too small.” Srsly?