Release me.....

Photo credit: Nancy Claire Cantine 

Two music videos premiered this week that were fully shot in Washington, DC.  Both videos feature Georgetown and H Street  -  Crash Boom Bang: VIP and Dirty Vegas: Little White Doves

"I won't stand for.....

by contributor Brendan Kownacki

As February wound down Tuesday, the crowds on K Street were asked to be a part of the end of "Characters Unite" month, a program set forth by the USA Network in the month of February to fight against discrimination and hate. 

Bottoms Up!

by contributor Courtney Cohen
Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan
 
Capitol File magazine helped Smith & Wollensky kick off their upcoming Wine Week (March 5-9) with a chic cocktail hour soiree featuring wine tasting stations, an oyster bar, and chefs carving sumptuous prime rib. Rum was also represented with some of Gosling’s best dark rum, providing some deliciously sweet dark and stormy cocktails for the non-wine drinking guests. 

OUR TOWN IS SHOW TOWN!

Bill McSweeney, Rise Cole, Lionell Thomas of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

by contributor Donna Shor

Photo credit:  Shannon Finney Photography

Two hundred ardent theater-goers and passionate theater professionals gathered at the National Theater to hear announced theatre Washington’s nominations for the 28th Helen Hayes Awards to be presented April 23rd. 

“The First Lady of the American Theatre”

Tyne Daly shown here with brother Tim

The 2012 Nominations for the 28th Helen Hayes Awards were announced at The National Theatre in the Helen Hayes Gallery. 

Seriously, nobody poses like that, unless....

Oscar-winning actor Jean Dujardin chooses Jaeger-LeCoultre

by contributor Wendy Gordon

Photo credit:  Pascal Le Segretain/WireImage

Unless, of course, the watch is courtesy of Jaeger-LeCoultre.  Hey, we want one, would be happy to strike a pose. 

Oscars....take two....

 

D.C. maybe Hollywood for Ugly People, but we have opinions too.  Here they are:

Curb Appeal

Photo credit: Donne Ashlock

"Optimism is my secret ingredient. Fresh air is my fave. Definitely not the A-type personality," Kimberly Lacy told us over lunch.  

And the winner is....

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at The Berlin Peace Awards

Photo credit: Pascal Le Segretain 2012 Getty Images

Although director-producer Angelina Jolie's debut via "In the Land of Blood and Honey" may not have been nominated for an Oscar, partner Brad Pitt is up for two nominations:  Best Actor in "Moneyball" (also nominated for Best Picture) and in another Best Picture nominee, "The Tree of Life." 

We'll have what he's having....

William Macy

Photo credit:  Courtesy of 2012 Getty Images  

That would be Jameson we're guessing. 

How big is your Roladex?

Former Chief of Protocol "Lucky" Roosevelt with Rima and Salem Al-Sabbah

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan 

If you happen to be the Ambassador of Kuwait, the Rolodex is monumental. 

Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah and wife Rima took over the ballroom of The Four Seasons, as they usually do, for the Anniversary of the National Day of the State of Kuwait, this year is the 51st Anniversary.

Say what?

Photo credit: Venturelli/Getty Images for Anteprima

The fashion industry is playing tricks on our internal time clocks again.  While we're still waiting for Winter 2011, they're enticing us with fall-winter fashions for 2012-2013.  Just sayin'.

Mrs. Laura Bush attends Afghan Benefit

Ray Mahmood and former First Lady Laura Bush

Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan

The Benefit for Afghan Street Children honored General (Ret.) & Mrs. Richard B. Myers - who were both instrumental in securing medical care and the building of a medical clinic for Afghan street children - at the Residence of The Ambassador of the Netherlands and hosted by Her Excellency the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Renee Jones-Bos and Dr. Richard Huw Jones.

The Envelope please..........

Do you know how many hands actually touch the coveted envelope?  We didn't, so we asked.

There he goes again.......

Video credit: Christina Davidson

National Journals' resident comedian Matt Cooper did it again................winning the Commedia dell Media contest held at the Riot Act Comedy Theatre where journalists bared their comedic skills - or not, as the case may be. 

Gone fishin............

Vertu's Casey Gorman and Wolfgang Puck

Photo credit: John Sciulli/WireImage

If you're hoping to catch a glimpse of celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck dishing it up at at "The Source" this weekend, well..... you can just fergettabout it....he won't be there.

The Austrian born Chef - who maintains his thick accent - will be dishing it out for the Oscars, not that his thick accent has anything to do with it.

The fish may be raw, but........

by contributor Brendan Kownacki

The house was packed with media types and VIPs on Wednesday evening as the curtain rose to unveil Fujimar. 

Beware the "baby trinket".....

by contributor Wendy Gordon

Le Bon Temps Rouler.  It wasn’t NOLA, but came close as Tuesday, February 21st brought a bevy of Mardi Gras celebrations to DC—and the annual celebration of Fat Tuesday to many of the area’s aptly themed Crescent City dining establishments, and to Central Michel Richard. 

Francophiles are out there....

by columnist Wendy Gordon
 
Photo credit: Daniel Swartz

Thursday evening was among the most busy in the event annals of DC.  But there could be no more alluring potential than the promise of champagne and hors d’oeuvres at one of Adams Morgan’s favorite haunts, Napoleon Bistro and Metropolitan Lounge, to honor its fifth anniversary.  

The President did what?

 Jeff Beck with wife Sandra Cash at Cities

Looks like Mick Jagger finally got some satisfaction when President Obama went for round 2 of his budding musical career during a star studded White House performance for PBS on Tuesday night.