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  • Sightings: Mark Wahlberg at Georgetown Ritz, White House

    Nikki Schwab

    Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Actor Mark Wahlberg was spotted having dinner at the bar at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown on Tuesday night. Washingtonian's Carol Joynt spotted the "Pain & Gain" star dressed casually in a T-shirt eating with a group of four or five people. "I asked Mark if he was in town working, filming...

  • Swag suite mini-scandal settled?

    Nikki Schwab

    Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Organizers say there will still be a swag suite for celebrities taking place over White House Correspondents' Association Dinner weekend, but don't think for a minute that it's associated with Saturday's big event. Last week, the Los Angeles public relations firm GBK put out a press release...

  • Ed Henry: WHCD swag suite is 'disgusting'

    Nikki Schwab

    Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    For White House Correspondents' Association President Ed Henry, a celebrities-only gifting suite was just too much. "I was just stunned because it sort of sounded like it took [the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner] to a whole new level, a disgusting level," Henry told Yeas &...

  • Nation and National Review hosting (the same) WHCD fete

    Nikki Schwab

    Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    From the left corner we have the Nation, and from the right corner we have the National Review, and the two magazines are the latest to announce that they will be hosting a White House Correspondents' Association weekend party. The two pubs, along with the Purple Network, will be feting guests...

  • Kuciniches link up with Congressional Veggie Caucus for Earth Day lunch

    Nikki Schwab

    Updated: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    The formation of the Veggie Caucus on Capitol Hill came about organically. A couple of friends got together including Adam Sarvana, a staffer for Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Madeline Rose, who works for Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., to create a Congressional Vegetarian Staff Association, or...

  • Grandson to discuss Walter Cronkite at press club event

    Nikki Schwab

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    Walter Cronkite IV is a journalist in his own right, working as an associate producer for CBS News. But he's also paying tribute to that other Cronkite you may have heard of -- grandfather Walter Cronkite -- in his new book "Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home." Cronkite and historian...

  • Despite the political stuff, Redford a fan of D.C.

    Nikki Schwab

    Updated: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

    When Robert Redford arrived at the Motion Picture Association of America in Washington on Friday night, there was a tennis racket there waiting for him. Redford was in town to promote the new documentary "All the President's Men Revisited," which he did Thursday night at the Newseum, and then...

  • 'Girls Rising' gets celebrity endorsements at the World Bank

    Nikki Schwab

    Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013

    For once, the actress wasn't the biggest celebrity in the room. On Thursday, "Slumdog Millionaire" beauty Freida Pinto stopped by the World Bank to promote the documentary "Girls Rising" at the movie's D.C. premiere. Pinto was not only flanked by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, but also Ban...

  • In Washington, Jennifer Hudson has Congress as her opening act

    Nikki Schwab

    Updated: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Alicia Keys and the band fun. opened for Jennifer Hudson for her last big performance in Washington, as she sang standing next to a pair of dancing Obamas, during this year's set of inaugural balls. This time around, the songstress had to contend with a slightly less talented set of musicians:...

  • Buzzfeed throwing party during White House Correspondents' dinner

    Nikki Schwab

    Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    After hosting two packed parties at last summer's political conventions in Tampa and Charlotte, viral news site Buzzfeed is once again going to a presence on the party scene, this time over White House Correspondents' Association Dinner weekend. But instead of pre-gaming with the news outlet,...


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