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Famous Friday [Round Up]
We will live by the promise of hashtag #NATL Can we watch all sports with this filter on?; Here are 45 names the NYT’s Upshot rejected that you can use for your new data journalism organization; #MyNYPD; O, Canada; Goodbye Google+; Hannity vs. Stewart; Comcast vs. Netflix; Andy Warhol created …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL If you like Cheerios, you can’t sue General Mills; #BostonStrong; there’s a hellfire twin Earth out there; How did 4/20 happen?; tax preparers flip the bird at responsible Americans as filing costs go up; “WTF??” –Scandal fans; Happy Friday; spoilers everywhere; Congrats Chelsea; God bless America; RIP Gabriel Garcia …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL Always get the bigger pizza; Or maybe never get the pizza; We found the best ever House of Cards tumblr; Bitcoin: nice while it lasted; Lebron-man; Seaworld still pissed about “Blackfish;” where’s our American flag tee shirt?; what’s going on with the Tea Party?; Oscars Sunday; Anchorman 3: ain’t …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL #MondayNumbers; Congrats, Seahawks!; Facebook turns 10; The Beatles turn 50; CVS puts out its cigarettes; We wish you all the best, Jay Leno; Stress at Sochi — it kind of sucks; How popular is your favorite DC anchor on Twitter?; Super Bowl aftermath; Stupid baby panda falling on its stupid face; Uncle Joe Biden can’t think …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL SUPER BOWL WEEKEND; We have Super Bowl predictions; #SOTU; Guess what? Beyonce & Jay Z are perfect; #THEDISTRICT What does your DC Dog breed say about you?; DC drivers, you’re screwed; See ya later, 918 F St NW; Glover’s Jimmy John’s now open; Get better soon, snowy owl!; Watch out for the new Brookland Pint; Hide your …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL #MLKDAY; SUPER BOWL COUNTDOWN: 9 days; We are honestly frozen to death; #TeamUSA uniforms – umm what?; MITT is now on Netflix; Reminder: Don’t take a ‘selfie’ with a stolen phone; Doughnut-flavored beer?!?!?!?; It’s a HEAT NATION; Justice for Sean Taylor, finally; Sorry we’re NOT sorry; #THEDISTRICT There is no Washington, D.C.; SNOWBALL FIGHT IN DUPONT CIRCLE; Soon you may be able to …
Feasting Famously with Tammy Gordon
We steal her away from running AARP’s online twitter webs to get her take on the best food finds in The District and more!
When you think online multimedia campaigns that are just crushing it, and changing the digital landscape, you totally think AARP right? If you don’t, think again. Advocacy is advocacy, and reaching out to mobilize and engage a generation that is not a 20-something is a challenge I’d never want to have. So when I first heard of Tammy Gordon years ago, and found out she has a food blog, clearly she’s someone I needed to talk to.
Like so many of us, before running the ten-person social media team at AARP, Tammy was hitting the campaign trail. Thinking her DC stint would be temporary, (yeah, ok), the District sucked her in.
Like so many of us, before running the ten-person social media team at AARP, Tammy was hitting the campaign trail. Thinking her DC stint would be temporary, (yeah, ok), the District sucked her in.
Speaking of things that suck people in, her food blog Florida Girl in DC was inspired by first joining Twitter, sharing what the farmer’s markets around town offered and crowdsourcing recipes. Starting her blog in 2009 with no real plan, “things amped up in a huge way when I attended my first Food Blogger Happy Hour where I met some of my favorite bloggers,” she says. “I count almost everyone at that happy hour as a personal friend today. Meeting really cool people is one of the best side effects of blogging!” I couldn’t agree more.
Chris Matthews vs. the Ballerinas
Chris Matthews chose the Greenberg Theatre at American University as the venue to interview the President this Thursday. The interview bumped a dress rehearsal of the Nutcracker, keeping young traveling ballerinas aged 5-14 from practicing that night and kicking them out on the streets. Read on for the full letter from the Artistic …
Joel Daly
Meet Joel Daly.
Joel is the Washington, DC host of CreativeMornings, a monthly morning talk aimed to gather creative folks for good coffee and good conversation. The free series began in New York by Tina Roth Eisenberg and has now been expanded to cities throughout the world.
Speakers are selected by each city chapter based on a global theme, and this month’s theme is Bravery. All of the available seats have already been distributed for this month’s talk with guest speaker Jason Steinhauer. Tickets go quickly due to the huge success of the series, but the series’ Twitter is a sure fire way to get the most useful information to secure a seat in the future.
FamousDC was able to chat with Joel about his role as DC’s host and learn what goes in to planning these highly anticipated monthly sessions.
Feasting Famously with Mintwood Chef Cedric Maupillier
Apparently there were almost 50 new restaurants that opened in DC this past summer. Some are good; others, good luck; and the ones who stand out do so in a big way. However since early 2012, one restaurant has been sustaining crowds, consistently serving the same high-quality food night after night, and has refused to compromise the integrity of their initial mission. The restaurant is Mintwood Place, the Executive Chef and owner is Cedric Maupillier, and the food is consistently well above average.
Much of Mintwood’s success, in addition to the great staff, and managers, is Chef Cedric himself. Already starting with a strong background in culinary education, he earned his “DC-wings” so-to-speak under world renowned Chef Michel Richard.
Now that he has his own place, and two years later it’s more than surviving – it’s thriving – FamousDC wanted to provide some more insight into Chef Cedric himself.
Read more here
Famous Friday [Round Up]
If you missed the news about WaPo, then probably stop reading this; Wanna hear some baby-makin beats? Trey Songz is here this weekend; Congrats to Fred Lucas and Sara Carter on the new gigs at Glenn Beck’s ‘The Blaze’; The Braves swept the floor with the Nats (& caused a Twitter feud while …
Feasting Famously with Ashley Codianni & Julie Eckert
The DC-duo running the hottest viral news site NowThis News talks Obama’s food drawer, dream dinning with Joe Biden, and Grumpy Cat’s diet
Everyone with a webcam and cat-chat thinks they are the internet’s newest hot sh!t. Generally this happens with much little street cred, or a CV to back them up. Occasionally, a random interview can turn viral (see Antoine Dodson), or some marketing geniuses put together a satirical commercial that goes viral on sheer brilliance (see Somersby Cider spoof on Apple).
However for some people, it’s their job to make things go viral – and not just cat-bearding and babies dancing – I’m talking interviews with Grover Norquist talking about Grumpy Cat, and Congressman Trey Radel (R-Fla.) droppin’ dope knowledge about rap. Now making those viral takes skill and talent.
Lucky for the interwebs, Ashley Codianni and Julie Eckert are doing just that, and killing it, over at NowThis News.
Erin McPike
Meet Erin McPike.
After what we can only call a superwoman performance covering the 2012 election, Erin McPike got scooped up by CNN to join Jake Tapper’s newest venture, The Lead. Having been a fan of McPike since day one, FamousDC was excited to see her make the jump from Real Clear Politics. Luckily, between assignments McPike had a minute to sit down with us and answer a few questions on her new gig, working with Tapper and roller blading with MO.
Feasting Famously with Chef Bart Vandaele
Top Chef Season 10 contestant and owner/Chef of DC’s own Belga Café lunches with us for his thoughts on the DC food scene, where he thinks it’s trending, and wonders if DC is ready for Michelin stars.
Walking down the restaurant and bar lined Barrack’s Row neighborhood of Capitol Hill, I see many familiar haunts that serve cold beer, and I am sure, decent food. Yet I am comforted with each step I take as it brings me closer to Belga Café.
Opened in 2004 by Chef Bart, this place has been consistently cranking out some seriously delicious Belgian-inspired food, providing amazing mussels, and some of the all-around best dishes (and beers) to be found in The District. However, it’s not Chef Bart’s entertaining and hilariously hard-to-understand-sometimes performance on Top Chef Season 10 that brings me here…ok, well, it sort of is. I mean, come on, who wouldn’t want to have lunch with this guy. He’s always happy, he had a crazy ass partner Josie in the last challenge that resulted in his elimination (tear), oh yeah, and there’s mussel’s on the half-shell with garlic butter and an ice cold Kasteel Rouge waiting for me on the inside. Onward we march in the name of food journalism!
Famous Friday [Round Up]
Tom Newhouse is a special young man, Ethan Klapper is famous, President Joe Biden made a big announcement on gay marriage, Steven Moore is a little bit older today, ask Daniel Newhauser why he spend 20 minutes talking to a bagel in an elevator on Thursday, congratulations to Jessica Brady …