DC’s ‘Mayor for life’, Marion Barry, said “everybody knows COOL “DISCO” DAN” – do you? Only a handful of his tags still remain, but during the 80’s you couldn’t turn a corner from Tenleytown to Congress Heights without seeing his graffiti. “The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan” highlights Dan and …

Party like the #PandaCam is on. WHO Guess who’s back? Steve Feldgus; Brian Diffell joined the ranks of successful SVPs; CQRC added Katy O’Donnell and Randy Leonard to their crack reporting team; tell Freddy Barnes and Jeff Ostermayer you’re sorry that Auburn will drop out of the top 25 this weekend; Uri …

It’s the first weekend after the shutdown and you want some time off from your unwanted time off. We knew that, so we hand selected the best picks for this weekend for you.

Dating was up while we were [shut down] District won’t shut down in January [money money money] DC’s electronic pop scene in a [flowchart] Disco Dan, DC Graffiti artist, on the [loose] Bionic Man crossing [streets of dc] Photo by Andrew Bossi

Sure, Noah had to build a whole ark by hand, but he never had to deal with a #GovernmentShutdown. Good, clean, bipartisan, canine fun; Amee Reyes Patterson and Jessica Moore celebrated a birthday; say goodbye to Brad and Whitney Hiscock as they move to California; Dan Snyder doubled down on …

Meet FamousDC’s newest writing duo, Stefanie Petropoulos and Kelly Cohen. They are constantly inside each other’s heads, collaborating to come up with observations and straight up DC style jokes. We talked to them about their style, inspirations and DC thoughts.

We’re here with hand-picked events to make your weekend brighter, even if it is grey and kinda rainy. Our picks this weekend include comedy, fashion, wine, whiskey, Warhol, spies, and all things H St NE.

“Put your money where your mouth is.” “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” “Just do it.” For most people, such motivational quotes and clichés push them to meaningless action. They post the phrase on their Facebook, or they tweet how they will soon be making a …

If you’ve been under a rock the last year, you’re probably not familiar with Bar Method DC, but you should be. We talked to founder and instructor, Kate Arnold. She hails from Chicago and we may have developed a girl crush on her by the time our interview was over.

I was non-essential, furloughed, and bereft of a good reason to be drinking in the middle of the day.

Oh, you said shut-down this weekend? Well I said shut up and drink. We wish we would have gotten an invite to Kevin Spacey’s silent auction dinner last Saturday; Matt Compton takes over digitally for the DNC; Lane Kiffin had a bad weekend; Sally Goldenberg celebrates a birthday and a …

We could see a government shutdown today. We have so many questions about it. 1. WILL THEY STILL PICK UP OUR GARBAGE? 2. CAN WE GET A WRAP IN LONGWORTH? AND IS THERE A STAFF ONLY LINE? 3. DOES THIS MEAN DC IS NOT GETTING THE OLYMPICS? 4. DOES THE DC …

We can’t talk for 21 hours – but we’ll try to take 21 shots this weekend Our party rocked; Click Clink; thank you to Microsoft, Resonate, The New Republic, Veronica, Marie, Stefanie, Kelly, Rebecca, Josh, Amos, Brian; We saw Lauren French, Ginger Gibson, Katie Harbath, Morgan Gress, Ashley Summers, Reid Wilson, …

Last night FamousDC teamed up with Microsoft, Resonate and The New Republic to throw another great happy hour. The event was held at the spectacular downtown office of Microsoft and featured great conversation, amazing food and delicious cocktails. We hope to see you at the next one. Famously Spotted: Kelly Dieter from WWSG, Margaret Chadbourn and Tim Ryan from Reuters, Melissa Morrill from INGAA, Charles Small from Cuomo’s office, Jade Floyd from the Case Foundation, Jeremy Art and Howard Mortman from C-SPAN, Abby Matousek and Georgette Spanjich from ML Strategies, Jim Billimoria from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Mark Bryant from Resonate, Alex Byers, Lauren French and Ginger Gibson from Politico, Will Carty from Twitter, Laurent Crenshaw from the House Intelligence Committee,  Katie Harbath from Facebook, Reid Wilson from the Washington Post, Morgan Gress and Ashley Summers from 1776, Paige Helling from CQ Roll Call, Megan Kirkpatrick from The Beer Institute, Chris Moody from Yahoo News, Nika Nour from the Internet Association, Lauren Patterson from Daily Caller, Archie Smart and Matt Lauer from Qorvis, Jim Swift from The Weekly Standard and of course Stefanie Petropoulous with DC London and Kelly Cohen with The Washington Examiner. A special thanks to our host committee: Gerrit Lansing, Kristen Soltis and Rebecca Mark And a big thank you to FamousDC’s Event Production Director Veronica Wilson for coordinating such a memorable evening. Photography by Dakota Photography. All photos can be found here.

We got the new iPhone 5s, what did you get? Praying for the families of the victims who were taken from us this week in the Navy Yard tragedy; We wish Bret Baier’s son Paul the speediest recovery; We’re in the mood for some STK Steak; Get a SmartTrip Card …

Quickest interviews ever Now This News developed an innovative series of short interview videos on the Now This News Instagram. Your favorite lawmakers may make an appearance soon, so keep an eye out. First at bat First question and first video comes from their interview with US Senate candidate Cory Booker. …

We all know that Nick Saban has won back-to-back National Championships with the mighty Crimson Tide. Alabama has won three of the last four titles (2010 does not exist). And the SEC has been winning BCS championships non-stop since before Barack Obama was a United States Senator. Lots of people …

The only thing scarier than Friday the 13th is how out of control my weekend will be: Hey #FamousDC Fans-Happy Friday the 13th; Read this funny s*** NOW, oh, this too; Obama gets serious on #Syria; Crossfire launch spices up Mt. Vernon Square, #NYFW happened and it was #TRENDY; Congrats Laura McGann on to bigger things as MSNBC.com‘s news editor; #DCWeatherPanic happened; Dear Amos: …

Recess might be officially over and all the kids are back in school, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop.

During their encore last night in Birmingham, Alabama, Mumford and Sons grabbed a guy out of the crowd to sing Sweet Home Alabama (it was their first time in Alabama). Here is a video of it happening: What is amazing is the guy had the thought process to pull out …