Famous Friday Round Up   #WEEKEND Saturday will remind you of summer so you won’t mind rain on Sunday: Saturday 80 °F and sunny; Sunday 65 °F and maybe rain;   #NATIONAL The force is strong this week; Presidential doodles; Drake basically lives the same life as us; Gyrocopter > letter to …

Alright friends – dream big. You could start a company and work on a Presidential campaign in just a short few years. Congratulations to hipster Tim O’Toole and the Poolhouse Digital team for their Rubio work.

Famous Friday Round Up   #WEEKEND It’s gonna be a nice one! Saturday 64 °F and sunny; Sunday 67 °F and sunny;   #NATIONAL It’s Sibling Day; “Big Dave Navarro??!“; we’re getting close to caftan season, ladies; A video of your upstairs neighbors; Coffee Shop Algebra: 1/x = y Where x is …

Steve Johnston has joined Google as an Account Executive on the Republican politics team. Most recently, he ran digital for Dan Sullivan’s winning Senate campaign in Alaska. He previously did product marketing for the Silicon Valley tech startup Quora. His political experience includes working in the Office of the House Majority …

Happy birthday to Robin’s husband, Natalie and Camden’s dad, and FamousDC’s co-founder, Josh Shultz! If you have a moment today, wish FamousDC co-founder Josh Shultz a Happy Birthday! –The FDC Team

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Meet Victoria Lai. She’s an attorney-turned-icecreampreneur who has long loved channeling her creativity and passion for flavors into making ice cream. She started making ice cream in her apartment kitchen six years ago, and since then has decided to deliberately add passion, creativity, color, and flavors to every aspect of her life. One of those aspects is her Navy Yard store, Ice Cream Jubilee.

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Meet Brandon Byrd. He started a vintage mobile eatery paying homage to the Rock & Roll era, serving turtle pecan sundaes, rootbeer floats, doughnut sandwiches, and other amazing treats to District Citizens out of a restored 1952 step van. Named one of the best food trucks in DC, Goodies is now also a stand at National Harbor. We caught up with him about work and life in DC.

We were thrilled to hear Roll Call’s Jason Dick and National Journal’s Fawn Johnson got engaged this week at The Inn At Little Washington, and immediately asked for more details. Jason gave us the scoop: “We went to the Inn knowing we would get engaged, but not the hows and …

Sad news for a DC institution – Chef Ike’s Mambo Room is closing. “What a great run we’ve had! We would like to thank the [residents] of Adam’s Morgan and the DC Metro area, and those across the country who have supported Chief Ike’s throughout the years,” the restaurant wrote …

***ROUND UP PRESENTED BY The American Gaming Association*** The American Gaming Association has released new research estimating that Americans will bet more than $2 billion through more than 70 million brackets on March Madness this year. With more people filling out brackets than casting a ballot for President Obama – who makes …

When you work on the Hill, certain tasks can take over the time you spend at the job. We polled all of the LCs and former LCs we could get in touch with to ask how their time is spent at work. This week, we have how a legislative correspondent’s day can be divided.

Christopher Gindlesperger, affectionately known as “Gindy” to FamousDC, is moving from his position as Senior Director of Public Affairs at the American Beverage Association to Vice President of Public Affairs & Communications at the National Confectioners Association (NCA). Gindlesperger said leaving was “bittersweet,” surely an intended pun, but for good reason …

All right all you big-time editors (looking at you, Ryan Grim, Susan Glasser, Jon Allen, Rachael Smolkin, Gabriel Snyder, Karey Van Hall, and Rachel Van Dongen) – we’re helping you find the next generation of talent. We reached out to our sources and  compiled a list of 5 political reporters …