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Huffington Post’s Nora McAlvanah recently interviewed a few FamousDC types about their plans to celebrate the anniversary of the stimulus. Our favorite answers below… Dana Milbank: “This morning I sent flowers to Larry Summers. Tonight I’m going to save or create jobs in the liquor industry.” GOP strategist Ron Bonjean: …

The Snowmageddon photos will be narrowed down to five finalists as decided on by our celebrity judges: Tommy McFly, 107.3 Rachel Cothran, Project Beltway Nora McAlvanah, Huffington Post Shana Glickfield, DC Concierge Angie Goff, OhMyGoff The ultimate winner will be voted on by the FamousDC readers Friday in an online …

How do you say goodbye to someone who starts your work day with a laugh and then gets you through the 4 p.m. hour with a little Last Call! humor? Well, it’s hard. FamousDC says good luck to our nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health …

It’s the news you’ve been waiting for all morning… [drum-roll please] White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee took home the top prize in the 16th annual “D.C.’s Funniest Celebrity” contest on Wednesday evening, and he did so in a very unconventional way. Unconventional, as in, he was actually funny. Patrick …

The FamousDC Spinster of the Week Award goes to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: In an interview, Sec/State Condoleezza Rice described the “shoe incident” as “a kind of sign of the freedom that people feel in Iraq” (AP). Hat tip – Nora and Last Call!

She’s not going to like this.

We’re often asked – who is FamousDC?  Good question… FamousDC is that District celebrity that everyone stops to talk to when they’re sitting outside of Sonoma, but someone no one will recognize outside the beltway. They‘re someone who is behind the scenes and just below the radar. Like an approps …

FamousDC sends birthday greetings to our friend Nora McAlvanah

Much like smokers need their morning fix of nicotine, so do political junkies – and for most, it comes in the form of Hotline’s Wake-Up Call – and for those chain-smoking junkies, there’s always Last Call!  And who might be the pushers who ensure the political crack gets delivered each …

French Version (he does pay homage to the Last Call experts: Danielle Jones, Nora McAlvanah, and Mike Memoli) SHOT: Obama, explaining at a town hall meeting in Georgia on July 8 why children should learn a foreign language: … “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, …

FamousDC readers know we’re big fans of Patrick Gavin and Nora McAlvanah. You can imagine our surprise to read an article that has advice from both of them. Luckily for all of us….they nailed it (with an Extreme quote). Campaigns and Elections: How to get on the air – all …