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Members of Congress vs. DC Press Corps: Softball Lineup Announced
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 …
Hyper Hill: McHale Mary
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 …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#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; …
How to Survive #WHCW
Stretch out your tweeting thumbs, round up your b-cards, and grab those Crest Whitestrips because it’s finally here– it’s White House Correspondents Dinner Weekend. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, then odds are you are a nobody — it’s #nerdprom weekend and it’s going to get a little …
Welcome to Washington Round Up
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 …
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 …
Obama Plays Soccer With a Robot
This is not only an amazing feat of technology, it’s a feat of diplomacy as well. President Obama played soccer with a robot.
Hyper Hill: Wet and Warm
White House Easter Egg roll [has begun] D.C. snowy owl [got better] POTUS and FLOTUS go to church [dressed up for Easter] Good luck to Kerry Allen, Matt Lehner, Krysten Sinema [and all Boston marathoners today] Where to have a [tea party, not the political kind] At least it’s going …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
It has been 0 days without a shoe being thrown at Hillary Clinton #NATIONAL Obama nominates his Bro; NASA is building a flying saucer; Sebelius (and Seacrest) Out; #CancelColbert worked; Bacon prices rising; we want more more fake car noises in TV news; goodbye Ultimate Warrior; did you change all …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL #MarchMadness; Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight went live; How’s your bracket going?; no Tesla for NJ; Prime hikes prices; Where is the plane – still; Russia’s new bases are a little close to home; Microsoft probably read your email; Harvard really?; Welcome, chicken from hell; this kid is asleep; #DISTRICT Welcome back, …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL Where’s the damn plane?; Obama goes Between Two Ferns; Russia…okay; Pinkberry founder going to jail; Bill Gates says a robot will take yer job; the 1800s called and they’d like their diseases back; GET TO DA TANK; #DISTRICT 8 best Irish bars in DC to celebrate St. Patty’s; March 23 = Amsterdam Falafel opens; 18th Amendment …
Hyper Hill: Dreams / Clouds / Office Buildings
Peet’s Coffee is [taking over DC] Ok Columbia Heights, we get it [Obama swung by] Maryland just says no to tracking [permits] You actually CAN be gluten free in DC [it doesn’t get any better] Oops sorry about all that stuff before [can I be mayor again?] I’m the governor …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
The only thing scarier than Friday the 13th is how out of control my weekend will be: Hey #FamousDC Fans-Happy Friday the 13th; Read this funny s*** NOW, oh, this too; Obama gets serious on #Syria; Crossfire launch spices up Mt. Vernon Square, #NYFW happened and it was #TRENDY; Congrats Laura McGann on to bigger things as MSNBC.com‘s news editor; #DCWeatherPanic happened; Dear Amos: …
Hyper Hill: Piled on
So many presidents, so much road [blockage] Tuesday morning just isn’t cute enough without [baby tigers] Know what’s not cute? The upcoming [debt limit] Then again, neither is this giant [road slab] Photo by Kevin Wolf