Nikki Schwab

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Usually when a cellphone goes off in the middle of an event, it is met with disdain by those hosting it. But not on Thursday night at Politico's Playbook Cocktails discussion at the Mayflower Hotel. Politico's Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei were interviewing "Morning Joe" hosts Mika Brzezinski and...

Alicia M. Cohn

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

"Let the wild rumpus start!" - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, reading Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" for the Reading is Fundamental campaign in the District last week. The 7-foot-2 basketball great provided the "Good Night Reading" to a room of mostly adults at RIF's annual fundraising...

Nikki Schwab

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

So what's it really like for astronaut Buzz Aldrin to gaze at the moon? "I don't curse at it," the 83-year-old said, referring to his cameo several years ago on the television show "30 Rock," where he yelled "I walked on your face" to the moon with Tina Fey. "Well, [I have] a little difficulty...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

Prince Harry created a royal frenzy on Thursday when he visited Capitol Hill to tour a photo exhibit in the Russell Senate Office Building. The hallways surrounding the roped-off rotunda were filled, mostly by women who screamed the prince's name every time they caught a glimpse between the...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

They are waffles fit for a first lady, but this weekend they're being made for the moms. Chefs at downtown D.C. restaurant P.J. Clarke's will be making waffles this Sunday using Jacqueline Kennedy's waffle recipe (ones she would make for JFK. Jr. and Caroline Kennedy in the '70s before lunching...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

Daytime television got its day at the museum Thursday, as "Barney" co-creator Kathy Parker and her composer husband, Phil, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek and "All My Children" star Susan Lucci all donated items to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Lucci signed over a pink gown...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

House members didn't so much strut as walk the runway Wednesday at the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Gala benefiting the Global Down Syndrome Foundation. "I don't have much experience on the runway," Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., admitted when asked backstage. She planned to focus on her...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

The American Cancer Society presented Tanya Snyder, wife of Washing ton Redskins owner Dan Snyder, with the Mother of the Year award on Wednesday, the first time the ceremony has been held in Washington. Snyder, a breast cancer survivor, is the NFL's National Spokesperson for Breast Cancer...

Alicia M. Cohn

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

"House of Nerds," a video shown at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that spoofs the dinner and the politics that surround it, was a year in the making. Kevin Spacey said the idea originated after last year's dinner, even before "House of Cards" became a Netflix phenomenon. "By the time...

Alicia M. Cohn

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Many Republican voters were celebrating Rep.-elect Mark Sanford's win in South Carolina's first district on Tuesday, but Meghan McCain wasn't one of them. The senator's daughter tweeted that any Republican who voted for the former governor "but is against gay marriage is an unbelievable...