#WEEKEND Saturday 62°F and rainy, Sunday 55°F and sunny: is Spring finally here?
#FAMOUSINFOGRAPHIC Life on the Hill: A Day in the Life of a Staff Assistant;
#NATIONAL Secret Service – come on; Does Jay-Z really not have “Obama on the text?”; U of A makes a breakthrough; ball, meet face; Space Mountain is about to get a lot better; This is awesome.; it’s getting easier to spike your coffee; the President reads mean Tweets about himself and then talks important things; Elephants to be phased out of Ringling Bros circus; your dog has a bad short term memory; McDonalds is taking a long hard look at itself; we scored an interview with NFL wide receiver turned journalist Donte Stallworth;
#DISTRICT 40 things you should eat in DC this year; more things you should eat, in another context; Nice knowing you, DC Streetcar; 500+ expected at Johnny Pistola’s tonight for CapClub’s sold out Shamrock Soiree; Best Buddies Prom coming up- merging young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and adult party goers taking a stand for these incredible young leaders onto one crazy dance floor at Howard theater; here’s a time you may want to try and be out of town; DC and affordable housing; NBC DC wonders who has time to read bills; don’t try to cross these intersections; that’s one way to get a date; attention DC Winos;
#FAMOUSFORDC Mike Ricci runs more than Forrest Gump; We have less than a month until Nerd Prom the Movie premieres and we couldn’t be more excited; Glad to see things are going well for Michele Bachmann; Raul Henriquez = the man!; Ruffini geeked out this week; Paul Kane, Jon Scofield and Doug Heye are on tour in Florida; Take Neil Bradley off your “top free agents” list. He just signed up with CRN.; Doug Farrar definitely grew up to be the kind of person who calls into Washington Journal; We highlighted the best R & D political, digital free agents for 2016;
#CONGRATS Natasha Flint joined the NJI Media team; even more NJI Media expansions and promotions; Chris Taylor is an elected official; Full circle: how Shira Center got her start, and the recap of her goodbye party; Mike Madden is leaving WCP for WaPo; We heard Chelsea Oudin had a blowout of a bachelorette last weekend – congrats!; It’s Brad Stewart’s first week since moving across the Hill from Senator Kirk’s office to Rep. Bob Dold’s office as Press Secretary; Annie Karni moving down south to Politico to cover Hillary; House GOP’s Abby Alger got engaged to Christian Paredes on a cliff at Scott’s Run this weekend; Genevieve Carter and Bobby Barr Shoemaker tie the knot a week from today in NOLA; Jon Grella and Greg Staley were promoted at U.S. Travel; Congrats to the new Senate Press Secretaries Association prez Meghan Roh and board Micah Johnson, JP Freire, Katie Niederee, Julia Krieger, Neal Patel, Monique Waters, Ryan Taylor (h/t Mike Allen and Daniel Lippman);
#HAPPY Tell Katherine Raab and Lauren Mullins happy birthday; SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Greg Maurer, Chad Scarborough, Brendan Buck and Franklin Davis are celebrating birthdays.; There are only three shopping days left to get Andrew Kovalcin a birthday present. Will he make it back in London in time to show off his shiny new watch?; Give Ashley Hoy a high-five and tell her happy birthday; hope Mark Malone and Austin Carson are having good birthday weeks;
#BYE Enjoy the weekend.