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

It’s that time again – time for Reaganpalooza. After 11 years and still going strong, Reaganpalooza has become the flagship celebration closing out the annual national Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) weekend. Reaganpalooza humbly started with only 40 people at a small apartment party in Arlington, VA as a way …

Just when we thought Drake could be good for America … He inspires President Obama to use a selfie stick in the White House. Post by BuzzFeed Video.

Tommy McFly hosts The Tommy Show on 947 FRESH FM!  He’s also newly appearing on WUSA9. At a press lunch in Bethesda in two thousand seven, maybe eight I crossed paths for the first time with Bob Madigan. He and I had so little, yet so much in common. That …

Neda Semnani, incredible human and excellent writer generally, wrote this beautiful piece for The Week, this week.   …In Paris, I told myself, writers must never fear the blank page or the blinking cursor. In Paris, the stories just write themselves. For a long time, I convinced myself that to …

Great article about Washington Wizards point guard John Wall on ESPN today. So while Greater Washington coos and prays for its homegrown luxury liner, Kevin Durant, to dock at Chesapeake Bay in 2016, perhaps the city unwittingly discounts the captain destined to restore D.C.’s NBA legacy to where Wes and …

Meet the #OffseasonSundays brunch club, which trust us – should be your new weekend thing. At least until next football season. From 12-3 on Sundays in the basement of Adams Morgan’s Smoke and Barrel, the #OffseasonSundays crew hangs out and listens to themed jams – most recently they hosted T-Pain …

Are you having this much fun in life? Think about it.

Gabriel Snyder, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, and Alberto Ibargüen, president of the Knight Foundation, will outline their individual visions for journalism at the upcoming National Press Foundation Awards dinner. Ibargüen will also receive NPF’s prestigious W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism. Nine other awards will be given. …

Ain’t nobody got time for dessert. Some restaurants have given up entirely. “More restaurants than you would think” are outsourcing their sweets to independent bakers, says Mark Bucher, who owns Medium Rare, with locations in Cleveland Park and Barracks Row. Bucher’s is among them. “You give them your recipes and …

There is nothing more we can say about an accordion version of Sandstorm by Darude, except that maybe this would be the time to question why you and your talents haven’t been on stage yet.  

Don’t settle in for a long winter’s nap, get out and go see these cool things this weekend. Phillips After 5, punk fundraiser concerts, drones &&& more – your ultimate first February weekend has arrived.

Queen Elizabeth has HAD IT UP TO HERE [with these corgis at her feet] Politico reporters are ruining Rosslyn? [Say it ain’t so] Did you want to watch an autonomous firefighting robot from VA Tech suppress flames? [Yeah, thought so] Photo by Jim Havard

That’s all for Tuesday, folks.