Post Archive

May 2010

Meet Shira Toeplitz. She writes Shop Talk for CQ – Roll Call and heads over to POLITICO in a few weeks. As she’s preparing for the move, Shira spared a few minutes for a FamousDC Famous 5. 1. Today is actually your birthday, what is the best b-day gift you’ve …

Lots of politicians are for sale, but this is the first we’ve seen for sale on Ebay. [sell now price] The Republican Party of Florida has followed through on its promise to auction off an oil painting of Gov. Charlie Crist, who bolted from the party last week to run …

Note: He doesn’t want to come off as “egotistical,” but… “I don’t want to be egotistical, but I could be the governor if I ran. My polls are very high. I got the money. I got the polls. I got the support.” — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (R), quoted …

Happy Tuesday morning. Spit your game. Also, was Gabourey Sidibe nice to anyone in DC?

Too soon MSNBC, too soon. h/t Leslie Bradshaw

Meet Chris Cillizza: the basketball playing, rap dancing, trivia night organizing, obsessive political reporter for the Washington Post. Mr. Fix spent a few minutes between deadlines and dinner parties to answer five questions for one of our FamousDC Famous 5 interviews. Famous Five Questions: Chris Cillizza 1. You just launched …

Who needs a research department when you have Wikipedia? President Obama presented a revised version of history at the correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night when he unveiled issues of POLITICO from previous centuries. And while POLITICO certainly didn’t exist during the Civil War or the fight for America’s independence, the …

Here are a few photos from this weekend’s Time/CNN/Fortune/People party. The “real life” Tuohy family and Jessica Simpson Photo credit: Larry Bussacca/Getty Wolf Blitzer, Dennis Quaid, Jeff Probst, Seth MacFarlane Photo credit: Larry Bussacca/Getty Kim Kardashian Photo credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty

… or at Least Try for a Good Cause Here’s your chance at Major League Baseball glory…kinda. Horton’s Kids, a favorite charity of current and former Hill staffers, is holding its annual Home Runs for Horton’s Kids at Nationals Park on May 12th. Attendees will get to bat on field …

Wedding day [congrats!] Got heart [give hope] Prom time [Jonas] Mobb Deep [DC]

Team Conan… Conan O’Brien made his return to TV in a much-hyped 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft. It was a decidedly Team Conan segment, and also a surprisingly serious and frank discussion with the comedy host. Watch it here. Watch CBS News Videos Online

Doug Heye: “I’m known as the Johnny Drama of Capitol Hill.” Adrian Grenier: “Oh, I’m so sorry.”

It wasn’t even close. Once again, the standup routines of Barack Obama and then Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night demonstrated that the most dangerous job in comedy is following the president of the United States—especially when the latter has better writers. [trounces] And who exactly …

Happy Monday. What a weekend: White House Correspondents Dinner, pre-parties, post-parties, brunches, NASCAR under the lights in Richmond, beautiful weather for Gold Cup, the Kentucky Derby, Floyd Mayweather Jr. earned his money, and and somehow Conan won the weekend.