Dannia Hakki is a DC-based PR guru and co-owner of the entertainment, hospitality, design and fashion PR agency Moki Media. I first met lobbyist and hospitality entrepreneur, Vinoda Basnayake, in 2009. I had just moved back to my hometown of Washington, D.C. after cutting my teeth in NYC at a high profile boutique lifestyle PR agency. I had some great experience as a publicist in NYC, but at just 25 years old, I had just taken an entrepreneurial leap to start my own PR agency, MoKi Media. DC was a new market for me, and I needed clients. I remember walking into Vinoda’s downtown rooftop lounge, Eden, and feeling like I was back in NYC. I had experience with nightlife accounts. I knew what to do, and how to do it. I needed to meet the owner of this place and introduce myself. The connection was instant. He went to Gonzaga High School. I went to Georgetown Day School & The Field School. He went to Georgetown. I went to George Washington University. He was a political lobbyist by day – with a JD/MBA from Wharton Business School – and nightlife entrepreneur by night. I was definitely going to be his publicist.

Morgan Gress is Editor at 1776, and the former editor of FamousDC. A quick note: FamousDC’s current editor, Marie, asked Morgan to write today’s thankful Thursday post. Guiding influences that immediately came to her mind? Amos Snead and Josh Shultz.

No, we’re not calling tourists pheasants these days. However, one of our favorite things to do is read the still-new advice column Rebecca Gale is writing regularly over at Roll Call. Just yesterday we stumbled across this gem: Q. First, the background on my question: I grew up and went …

Summer in DC means two things: amazing weather and awkward intern stories. Since only one of these can be controlled, Roll Call has offered up some advice to this summer’s interns. You’ve landed an impressive new internship, moved into a decent apartment, figured out the Metro, braved the heat and …

Meet Spike Lee.  He has advice.  You should listen because he’s famous. [go off] Related: James Cameron makes movies and knows how to plug holes. Why has nobody called Bruce Willis?

It’s unclear as to whether she sought out the former VP’s advice, but when Dan Quayle speaks – Sarah Palin listens. “I basically said, ‘Look, just be yourself. You were selected by John McCain because of who you are and what you have done,’” Quayle said. “Don’t let them take …