Nikki Schwab

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

What was once Silverdocs, an annual documentary festival held in Silver Spring, this year has become AFI Docs. And with a new name comes new territory. The documentary festival, being held June 19 to 23, will now be screening films in both Silver Spring and downtown D.C., this year attracting...

Nikki Schwab

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Hip-hop artist and businessman Diddy dipped into the District on Tuesday on business for his vodka, Ciroc. The mogul was spotted at the W hotel's POV Lounge, according to report from the Fab Empire website. Dressed in a smart suit, Diddy "inspired his D.C. team to become even better than the...

David M. Drucker

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Republicans are warning that meddling by the White House and House Democratic leaders could jeopardize prospects for congressional action on immigration reform. The House immigration working group was on the cusp of a bipartisan deal, Politico reported, when House Democratic leaders pulled the...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

Actor Rob Lowe seemed to be showing up everywhere in Washington this week. On Tuesday night, he and his wife, Sheryl, had dinner at the new NoPa Kitchen + Bar with friends Jack and Susanna Quinn and Ed and Shirley Henry, a restaurant rep reports. On Wednesday, Sheryl, a jewelry designer,...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Senators are angry that tech giant Apple isn't paying its fair share. I'm not talking about taxes. This is about campaign contributions and lobbying fees. An investigation by Sen. Carl Levin and a grilling of Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on...

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is no fan of swamp alligators, and now he's proving it with a $5,000-per-person alligator hunt fundraiser complete with Cajun food, an airboat swamp tour and a "tag" to hunt the toothy reptiles. Secrets received a copy of the invitation to the Sept. 5...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

One good way to rile up a District movie audience is to show them a WikiLeaks documentary. At the Landmark E Street Cinema on Tuesday night, a brief but heated argument broke out in the audience -- while the movie was still playing -- over the involvement of Adrian Lamo, the former hacker who...

Charlie Spiering

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

This graphic video from ITV features a man in South London who has just beheaded a man in the street. “You people will never be safe, remove your government, they don’t care about you,” he says to the camera, holding a knife and machete in his blood stained hands. According to ITV, the...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

Hopefully Cookie Monster didn't try to influence policy on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, because we suspect all his legislative ideas consist of "me want cookie!" Fortunately, it sounds like Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., was able to stand up to the fuzzy blue "Sesame Street" character. "Told him...

Conn Carroll

Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013

“You don’t screw up your policies to fit a stupid government program,” amnesty advocate Grover Norquist recently told National Review in reference to welfare spending on low-skill immigrants, “You reform the stupid government program.” That is a nice thought … in theory.