Famous Friday Round Up
#HAPPYHOUR
FamousDC took its talents to Cleveland and threw an epic party. A huge shout out to everyone who joined us at Lola Bistro and an even bigger thank you to GOPAC Education Fund and American Freedom Builders for giving us the opportunity to team up with them to host this awesome event. An additional thank you to PhRMA for their help and making the night a true success. It was a famously fantastic evening filled with great cocktails, political puns, and Rick Santorum sightings.
Until next time Cleveland. Cheers!
#WEEKEND
Weather: DC has taken it down a few degrees, but only a few. This weekend is bringing us highs of 85 and 87 with only a 10% chance of rain and consistent cloud coverage.
Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Grab a bucket of $1.00 brews at Hamilton’s Bar & Grill on Friday night; Watch some epic live music at Gypsy Sally’s; Hit up the farmers market at the National Harbor; Head to the Rock & Roll hotel for some awesome rooftop jams; Catch an outdoor movie screening on the Potomac; Get your workout in at The Yards Park boot camp class.
#NATIONAL
America is calling for Eleanor Roosevelt to be the new face of our $10 bill; The Washington Post and New York times are butting heads; Check out if the debates were really worth it; Obama for VP. Is it possible?; Goodbye humans, hello robots; The republican debate was certainly entertaining to say the least; GOP debate: Who ranked and who tanked; The Washington Examiner has ruled Carly Fiorina as taking home the gold in the GOP debate; Thank you Jon Stewart for making our entire generation care about politics.
#DISTRICT
Swap out your usual Miller Lite or PBR for an epic local brew; Go Green with the simple download of this app; Presidential Perk: No Line at Rose’s Luxury; We just cannot get enough of Capital Bikeshare; The Iran Deal is getting heated; The Metro wreaked serious havoc for DC commuters; Kim Kardashian and Hillary Clinton are getting cozy; Trump has it out for FOX News; Hillary is in the hot seat; DC’s epic beer week just keeps getting better; Where’s Michelle Obama’s next stop on her fine dining tour?
#ICYMI
Do it right and host the best debate party; Congress has officially hit Snapchat level; Cyber Security Legislation is being backed by these 10; John Oliver took on a DC hot topic; Shout out to Andy Katz and Rick Klein for their epic Capital Games bracketology; Instagram has taken on the 2016 presidential elections; The Republican candidates certainly put on a show. The awards go to…; Heather Paich has a brilliant eye for photography.
#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK
ktumulty; ryanbeckwith; darth; KevinMcLaughlin; rebeccagberg; 1happy_elephant.
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#BIRTHDAY
Famous birthday wishes for: President Barack Obama; Christopher S. Murphy; Keith Ellison; Hakeem Jeffries; Tom Rice; Mike Doyle; Stephanie Báez; Andrew Bremer; Jessica Lynn; Caitlyn D’Agati; Sarah Roach-Miller; Andie D’Agostino; Dani Bagwin; Jill Ricotta; Renee Preston; Ingrid Lund; Jordan Novak; Marcella Moslow; Hunger Carl Bamberg; Pete Snyder; Taylor Imperiale; Rachel Robinson; Frank Hollowell; Nate Politi; Julianna Jacobson; Mike Dankler; Jessi Calzado; Joy Asico; Ivy Williams Malone; Skye Earls Replogle; Mary Kathryn Steel; Matthew Dornic; Jeff Urbanchuk; Carrie Thornton Ashbee; Meredith Griffanti; Marc Ambinder; Rachen Robinson; Deborah N. Sauri; Michael Biundo; David H. Bass; Cliff Riccio Jr; Robert Traynham; Jennifer Mundy Flitton; Karin Tanabe; David Sours; Pamela Lynne Sorensen.
Special birthday shout out to Allyson Browning. Toss back an Alabama Slammer this weekend.
#FAMOUSFORDC
The Hill won’t be the same without you, Alexa Marrer. Good luck in the Midwest; Notre Dame is lucky to have you, Patrick Manion. DC will miss you; Awesome new consulting firm, THINKP3, has officially launched and is open for business; We want to join Morgan Ortegus, Jonathan Weinberger and chef Daniel Boulud on their European food tour. #realityshow?; Zac Moffatt killed it on Squawk box; Elliot Berke is going Hollywood; We’re betting Eric Wilson is pretty happy today; The Fix knows what his audience wants: The Donald; Sean Spicer got his own spin room sign; Tyler Roberts hearts Ted Cruz; Is Noah Black a reader of FamousDC?; Happy Anniversary to Brian and Jennifer Diffell; Not sure Rachel Taylor was terribly impressed by last night’s debate; Rebecca and Neil Chatterjee are taking over London; Brian Diffell dominates air hockey; Kristen Soltis Anderson needs her on TV show; Pete Snyder turned 25 this week; Pro tip: Don’t try to attack Megyn Kelly; Tell Austin Gaddis congratulations on completing his internship with Walt Disney company; Cleveland rocks; Congrats to Spike Mendelsohn and Cody Borromeo on tying the knot; Good luck to Betsey Stevenson as she goes back to the University of Michigan as Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Jessica Schumer leaves the White House for Brooklyn where she will be chief of staff of the Robin Hood Foundation, dedicated to fighting poverty in New York City; Michael Greenwald will be moving to Doha in the Middle East to serve as the United States’ Treasury Attache to Qatar and Kuwait; Wes McClelland leaves Majority Leader’s office and will start as Vice President, Federal Affairs for the American Insurance Association this fall. (h/t Playbook)
**A special thank you to our own Marie Formica for helping coordinate an amazing debate party in Cleveland this week.
#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW
Doug Heye, Deputy Chief of Staff for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor goes to Harvard where he’ll serve as a Resident Fellow for the fall semester; Big welcome to Megan Murphy, Bloomberg’s new DC bureau chief/executive editor starting in September; Demetri Sevastopulo gets promoted from US political correspondent to the new Washington bureau chief at the Financial Times; Jared Grusd is the new CEO at The Huffington Post; Alice Rhee leaves her position at The Washington Post as a senior producer to start a digital media consulting firm; Sarah Spigelman Richter is the new food reporter at Mashable; Brian Madigan is named photo director at BuzzFeed Life; Jarrod Dicker is now director of ad product and engineering at The Washington Post; Jennifer MacMillan; joins the CBC; (h/t Poynter)
#BYE
It’s been real, Cleveland.