Recess weeks can be a blissful break for a burned out staffer. Here’s how it usually goes. Last day of votes before a recess week. This is you. This is you, inside. Things are tense around the office. Very tense. Your boss is leaving. This is your face as you …

Game on: The lineup for Members vs. Press (aka the 2014 Congressional Women’s Softball Game) has just been announced. Full roster below. Get your tickets for the Wednesday, June 18, 2014 game at 7PM. It’s always a blast, and ticket money goes to a good cause: benefiting the Young Survival …

Actress Robin Wright (a.k.a. Claire Underwood from House of Cards) got sassy this weekend when asked about her favorite WHC: …we tried to get Wright’s take on her favorite White House correspondent. You know the folks whose work the weekend is supposed to be celebrating? “Who are they?” she asked, …

Cinco de Mayo [margarita prices] Mirror, mirror on the wall [which rap artist has the largest vocabulary of them all?] Are you single? Do you make $100-200k? [we have the perfect 400 square foot studio for you] The running of the chihuahuas [this is really actually a thing] Building collapses …

#NATIONAL The pollen vortex is here; kids these days; Rob Ford- c’mon man; Godzilla is too fat; “What is a photocopier?”; wearable tech: a gun that needs a watch to fire; we’re entering a post-antibiotic era so see y’all later; mint juleps, anyone?; this joke about May never gets old; …

Story Partners, in honor of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner,  hosted a slew of Washington influentials at their inaugural “Welcome to Washington: A Salute to Women in Journalism” event. The party, co-hosted by Story Partners’ Gloria Dittus, NBC’s Betsy Fischer Martin,Washingtonian’s Cathy Merrill Williams, CNN’s Dana Bash, CBS News’ Jan Crawford, and The New Republic’s Julia Ioffe definitely kicked off the weekend …

Want to find the most traveled routes in D.C. by both bike and running … so you can avoid those sidewalks? Yeah, us too. Check out this map from Strava. h/t Washingtonian  

They played on the “house music” phrasing.

Happy Movember! Ladies, get excited! It is finally November, a month in which men across our great nation, and our very own Capitol Hill, will exert their manhood and let it grow for a good cause. In the meantime, let’s look around the Hill and reflect on those mustachioed men (and unfortunately …

Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will reconvene because of one single tweet. This 140 character message, not only ruined thousands of August vacations, but will cost staffers and members thousands of dollars when it’s all said and done. With the help from FamousDC, the fine folks at JESS3 illustrated …

August is so close we can smell it. Happy Monday. Let’s rock this week.

Recess. It’s a busy time back in the district. But in THE District, it’s about as slow as Doris counting the pennies the latest tourist decided to use to pay for their buffalo wrap. Back home, the boss is kissing babies (and goodness knows who else) while office work productivity …

Meet Rick Klein. He Tweets from the hospital room when his child is born and covers politics and hosts Top Line for ABC News. In addition to that, Mr. Klein was recently promoted to Senior Washington News Editor for ABC “World News.” Rick was kind enough to spend a few …

Rep. Diane Watson had a five-minute speech paying tribute to Gary Coleman. We can just imagine the office conversation before the floor speech: Staffer: “Congresswoman, there are 20 thousand gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf everyday. Want to touch that on the floor?” Congresswoman: “Nah, that’s a toughie.” Staffer: …

It’s almost that time of year again. 5. Bring your dogeared copy of “Modelland” to the break room. 4. Tweet: “So I just got asked to give a neck massage. Creepy! #myboss” 3. Ask, “Who is Betty White?” 2. Wear your “Vive la France” t-shirt on Bastille Day. 1. Say …