PJ Clarke’s – no shirt? No problem. Someone changed the dress code for dining in downtown DC twitter.com/EquinoxDC/stat… — equinox restaurant (@EquinoxDC) July 5, 2012 h/t Gary Karr

Happy Fourth of July. Ana Santos is a student at American University, an intern and a photographer. See more of her great work here and follow her on Twitter.

OJBG’s Secret Project recently launched with its inside look at DC. Check out some of their recent coverage below.

Meet Sarah Spear Sands. Sarah started DC’s hottest new exercise program – Dance Trance – after a successful career as a lawyer and lobbyist in DC. Luckily, Sarah had time in between launching her new business and teaching classes to sit down with FamousDC to answer a few questions about …

The 51st annual CQ-Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game took place last Thursday and FamousDC was lucky enough to attend. There we were able to catch up with Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in his 1979 vintage Astros home run jersey. Before he departed to throw the first pitch, Rep. Paul told …

Looking for a way to beat the heat? Need a relief from the TMItern’s story about his third counsin’s, once removed, nasty breakup? Or just looking for a way to beat your friends to happy hour fun? Then let us help with these recipes guaranteed to solve all those problems and more. …

Sunset at the Capitol from District Media on Vimeo.  

New to DC this Summer? Recently, FamousDC was asked “What is one thing I should do this summer?” by a DC newcomer. We decided to open it up and ask some true Washingtonians for their recommendations. We couldn’t come up with just one thing as there’s nothing quite like a …

Call these people. h/t Meg Smith

Trying to move up in DC? Considering graduate school? Want to start in the fall? Then head over to Nationals Park this Wednesday. There, American University will have a special info session on a number of its weekend graduate programs in Communication that are designed for working professionals.  Each program, the MA in Interactive …

h/t Darcie Piechowski

If you haven’t heard, Michael “Machine” Kaplan’s birthday party is this evening at Bullfeathers. If history is any indication, it won’t end well for Kaplan. Happy birthday from the entire FamousDC family!

Now that we’ve entered the throes of intern season, we thought it’d be fun to point out a few archetypical characters that fill our halls of power and proudly sport their badges. Let’s start with the various forms of the TMItern. This intern can take many forms. One, a derivative …

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Meet Joshua Funk. Josh works at the National Press Club as the director of business development and head of everything cool. We hear he gets to hang out with amazing celebs and journo titans. Josh graciously gave us some of his time in between all that awesomeness for an inside scoop on …