Famous Friday Round Up

#WEEKEND

Weather: Although the sun will still be shining bright enough to need your sunnies, winter is finally starting to hit DC with temperatures as low as 27 this weekend. Ready, set, complain!

Awesome events you can attend this weekend: Two words…STAR WARS; Get out and support the Washington Capitals; Bust a move at the the Silent Disco Party… if you’re into that sort of thing; Pull on your ugliest Christmas sweater and head over to Heritage Brewing Company’s holiday party; Catch the Thievery Corporation concert at the 9:30 Club.

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#NATIONAL

Yes, Obama has plans to see the new Star Wars movie; Canada has good air and they know it; And the most popular google search in 2015 was… Lamar Odom?; Dick Van Dyke celebrated his birthday with a Mary Poppins flash mob, because of course; Sorry not sorry; Your year in search; This is either ingenious or incredibly pathetic; Trump…Darth Style; Pilot wrote 32 late notes when plane was delayed and caused students to miss class; How many times can Hotline Bling jump the shark this year?; Make the NFL great again; Putting your Christmas card to shame just like that; Hoverboard explosions = phase one of robot retaliation against humanity; This year’s biggest bromance.

#LOCAL

The best two sentences anyone on Capitol Hill saw in their inbox this morning: “Our first and only vote series of the day has concluded. These are the last votes expected in the House for the day, week, month, and year.”; Don’t worry the FTA announced there are only 295 unresolved safety issues with the metro; Is there a worse kind of thief than a puppy thief?; The FBI is buying a minivan and moving to the suburbs; 5 steps to becoming a DC socialite without a monocle; A list of all the weirdest things that have happened in DC; Meet the man who cares for Bei Bei and Bao Bao; Bus driver asks for apology but gets stabbed instead; Ten years of DC in photos.

#ICYMI

#BIRTHDAY

Riva Litman – RINGING in 30 with some bling. Congratulations on your engagement!; Allison Schneider; Maha Hakki; Devon Redfield; Wendell White; Holly Campbell; Carla Michelle Coley; Dave Tate; Shayne Feinberg; Eliza Hopkins; Briana Cait; Perry Crain; Alex Sipilief; Lauren Howard; Lisa June; Angela Kazmierczak; Domenic Merolla; Dillon Harrington; Mike Kelleher; Bob Cheetham; Christoph Andersson; Nate Dupuis; Riley Charters; Mindy Demeo; Karen Christian; Silvija Augstums.

#TWEETSOFTHEWEEK

nprmonkeysee (h/t Clinton Yates); MrNickDyer; weeddude; nickgillespie; AdamSerwer.

#FAMOUSFORDC

Best of luck to Catherine Gatewood Easley – DC will miss you!; Cheers to Robert Horne and Molly Wilkinson who are tying the knot this weekend; We live vicariously through Sara Croom’s travel schedule; Danny Lyon is ready for all Star Wars spoilers; Who can get Amy Wren Adele tickets?; RIP Sarah DeBron; 102 videos later, is Patrick Gavin any closer to scoring an interview with Obama? Unlikely; Morgan Gress, have you eaten your 22 little hot dogs yet this holiday season?; Find famous Wendell White; Will Max Gigle share his pepper vodka?; What do we have to do to get Jerry O’Donnell to make us guacamole?; Does Barack Obama still read this far down?; Has Mal Kennedy signed up for our mailing list yet?; What about Saint West?; Doug Parsons, enjoy your Macallan and congratulations; NJI Media apologizes to the Secret Service for the large number of drones flying over DC; Ask Julie Germany for a cat treat; Teri Galvez has the busiest Holiday schedule of anyone in DC; Merry Christmas Chris Seidel; The biggest thing to hit Chicago since Michael Jordan –> #RamletsGetMarried, Tell Michael Ramlet and Brook Hougesen congratulations on their upcoming nuptials. Ramlet, as he always does in life, out-kicked his coverage.

#MEDIAMOVES BY BRYANT ROW

Larry Wilmore will host the 2016 WHCA Dinner; Lester Holt will moderate NBC’s democratic debate in Charleston this January; Ross Barkan is joining the Observer as a national politics reporter but “will miss the bathrooms in City Hall”; Stephen Dennis will cover the U.S. Senate for Bloomberg. Kevin Whitelaw also joins Bloomberg to head the Congress team. Both are coming from CQ Roll Call; CQ Roll adds five hires of its own with Phyllis W. Jordan as the new congressional editor and Mary C. Curtis as political editor; Stephanie Akin, Eric Garcia, and Rema Rahman join Roll Call as staff writers (h/t FishbowlDC); Chris Strathmann leaves ABC and joins NBC as senior producer of nightly news; Emma Dumain is also leaving CQ Roll Call to become the Charleston Post and Courier’s new DC correspondent.

#BYE

See you in MMXVI