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#NATIONAL Yellowstone … Yikes; Goodbye Letterman; RGIII is keeping #10, DeSean Jackson; CRAWFISH; We heard the last HIMYM episode sucked but need to catch up on seasons 1-9 so NO SPOILERS for the next year and a half; Microsoft rolled something out and people found stuff wrong with it; The US created a secret Cuban Twitter, so there’s that; We were normcore before we realized that was a thing; #DontCancelColbert; The Lion King and an airplane or something; Did you get pranked on Tuesday?;
#DISTRICT We love to binge watch; It’s Cherry Blossom season, do you know where your mom in dad are? (Hint: Check your apartment); Vince Gray conceded to Muriel Bowser; Eataly’s coming to Capitol Crossing aka the 395 roof; Beer Madness; You’re gonna be a-MAZED this summer; King of Barracks’ Row not doing so hot; GCDC; Bao Bao. Went. Outside; Marijuana legalized, almost; Kevin Wolf had an awesome photo this week; WIZARDS make the PLAYOFFS; District Taco coming to West End; NoMa gets free WiFi; STK DC opens April 25 (YUM); @InstacartDC arrives in DC; Join other GoT fans on Sundays at Little Miss Whiskey’s; Willie T’s Lobster Shack to become neighbors with Kramerbooks;
#WASHINGTONINSIDER It’s been one crazy ass week in Legislative World; FLOTUS and Valerie Jarrett at Fiola Mare; The Hanson bros were on the Hill – ok; Bradley Cooper is a political mastermind; Blair Mixon totally yolo-ed this week; Wale went a litttle crazy; Shiny candidate; Good Luck Georgette Spanjich, Ben Schorr, Jared Dashoff, Abby Matousek, and all the other Cherry Blossom 10 Miler runners this Sunday incl. Lindsey E. Stout; Are you going to DC Fiton Saturday?; Jeff Shockey, John Scofield and Mike Ference brought hundreds of close friends and NASCAR to Hawk’n’Dove (what?);
#NATITUDE It’s the Nationals’ first game in DC today; We’re going to win it all!; It’s a little pricey to propose; Nats Park looks pretty cool (as usual) this year; Yes I’ll take one of everything at the stadium; Hand surgery!; Everything you ever needed to know about the home opener;
#BIRTHDAY Have a good one Joe Hack; Happy birthday to Michael Ramlet; HBD Madison Case;
#CONGRATS Make sure you congratulate the flawless Julia Lawless on her move to comms director for the Senate Finance Committee minority, and also say congrats to Aaron Forbes on his new gig as press secretary on the same team; Happy anniversary Sean and Kelli McMorrow; To the Froemmings on their upcoming bundle of joy; Congratulations Stephanie L. Fontenot on her new job on the Senate side; Scott Bland gets a promotion at The Hotline; Charlie Spiering heads to Brietbart News; Alexis Levinson heads to Roll Call;
#MEDIAMOVES thanks to @StoryPartners: WaPo introduces “Read In” with @PostReid, “Read In” is a morning tip sheet for political professionals, lawmakers and anyone who cares about politics. Speaking of the @WaPo, the newspaper’s been looking for new digs which are reportedly at 1301 K Street, just a few blocks away from its long-time 15th street home. @Rollcall made moves this past week with @alexis_levinson moving over from The Daily Caller. She will cover Senate races, while Allie Robinson joins the copy desk. @KyleTrygstad has been promoted to Associate Politics Editor and former Roll Call staffer Meredith Shiner is reportedly in talks to join Yahoo! News. Yahoo! Is bolstering its online news team, starting with the addition of @KatieCouric earlier this year.@CNN taps Politico’s @maggiepolitico to serve as a Politico Analyst as the network gears up for 2014 election coverage. @FrankKonkel leaves Federal Computing Week and @charliespiering jumps from the Washington Examiner to @BreitbartNews. @EmilyMiller tweets she will be the new investigative reporter @fox5newsDC. JJ Gould takes over at the helm of TheAtlantic.com. On the Hill, Matt Thornton takes over as Comms Director at House Majority PAC, replacing Andy Stone who left for some website called Facebook, Wendy Davis nabs @ZacPetkanas as her new Comms. Director and @RollCallAbby has all the rest of your movers and shakers here.
#BYE; Get those pencils out because it’s Cherry Blossom People Watching Scavenger Hunt time; here’s what you can do with your all-spring-all-the-time weekend.