Night Life: Shot of Irish Whiskey
New midtown restaurant concept ups the ante of a traditional Irish pub with designer cocktails, custom-designed interiors and full menu.
WL Insider: JHud’s Surprise 3-Oh!
Friends and family came out to Opera Ultra Lounge to surprise singer Jennifer Hudson for her 30th birthday.
WL Insider: Opera Hits A High Note
I Street nightlife scene continues to evolve and challenge K Street's club supremacy with latest entrant Opera Ultra Lounge.
WL Insider: District of Couponing
Washington's latest entrant in the deal site craze, Gilt City DC, launches with a fashion forward crowd and adult slushies
Night Life: Shot of Irish Whiskey
06 January 2012
New midtown restaurant concept ups the ante of a traditional Irish pub with designer cocktails, custom-designed interiors and full menu.
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WL Insider: JHud’s Surprise 3-Oh!
13 September 2011
Friends and family came out to Opera Ultra Lounge to surprise singer Jennifer Hudson for her 30th birthday.
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WL Insider: Opera Hits A High Note
02 September 2011
I Street nightlife scene continues to evolve and challenge K Street's club supremacy with latest entrant Opera Ultra Lounge.
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WL Insider: District of Couponing
28 July 2011
Washington's latest entrant in the deal site craze, Gilt City DC, launches with a fashion forward crowd and adult slushies
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WL Insider: 24-Hour Party People
23 June 2011
Billed as the social event of the decade, The Global Party, seeks to bring 80,000 of the world’s top VIPs together to party for 24-hours for charity.
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WL Insider: Jabbar Gets the Lincoln Treatment
07 June 2011
Author, Athlete and Filmmaker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar barnstormed DC to receive the The Ford's Theatre Society Lincoln Medal and promote his first documentary film.
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Access Pollywood: Cool Climate Art Competition
15 October 2010
The CoolClimate Art Contest challenged artists to confront climate change.
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WL Insider: When Politics and Star Power Collide
07 May 2010
The White House Correspondents Association Weekend has become an extended East Coast version of the Oscars – it’s chic, celeb-laden, and media-frenzied. Is this Hollywoodization a good thing or are we simply becoming the latest TMZ outpost?
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WL Insider: Alicia Keys Lights Verizon’s Fuze
26 March 2010
Alicia Keys dazzles at the Verizon Center with a combination of arena style numbers and intimate favorites.
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WL Insider: Big Ideas, Big Action
09 February 2010
What do you get when the Metro area's top creative minds come together for a day of idea creation, brainstorming, and Play Doh? Big ideas, big action, and some childlike inspiration.
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Access Pollywood: Washington Life’s “Social Year in Review”
12 January 2010
Washington Life aired it's first prime-time TV special on Jan 9th 8PM and Jan 10th 6PM on DC50TV - the CW. If you didn't get a chance to view it . Check it out here!
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WL Insider: A New Decade in Three Parties
05 January 2010
We said goodbye to 2009 by party hopping to some of D.C.'s hottest venues in search of the elusive "awesome New Year's Eve"
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Washington Has a Secret: We Have Artists!
13 November 2009
Washington is a city about secrets. Everyone has one. We are letting one of them out of the bag – D.C. is creative
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Access Pollywood: Efron, Danes, and Linklater Advocate for Arts
13 November 2009
The IMPACT Arts + Film Fund pushes art and Hollywood with "Me and Orson Welles" screening
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Heavyweight Philanthropy at Fight Night
06 November 2009
Fight Night celebrates its 20th anniversary with plenty of boxing legends, donations, Marines, cigars, eye-candy, and the inspirational Joe E. Robert, Jr.
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WL Insider: One Night Art Stand
28 October 2009
Hickok Cole is known for its architecture, but its annual Art Night is helping build the local arts community.
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WL Insider: Sea and be Seen
28 October 2009
A ‘Nautical Affair’ at the Corcoran had a crew of up and coming Washington socialites – did the event (and fashion) sink or swim?
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Men’s Mag Power
19 October 2009
GQ takes a shot at listing top influencers and launches its 50 Most Powerful People in Washington issue on Pennsylvania Ave (but not at that address).
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Obama’s Coming Out Party
13 October 2009
The President makes a historic keynote address and the crowd goes Gaga for the First Lady of pop at the Human Rights Campaign Gala.
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WL Insider: W’s Operatic Opening
12 October 2009
The W Hotel Washington and John Legend put on a grand opening performance, Pollywood style.
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WL Insider: Maxwell’s Afternoon Hangout
02 October 2009
Jeffrey Wright gathers DC's African American power players to support Taia Peace Foundation and Maxwell.
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Access Pollywood: Sotomayor Mambós at Noche Musicál
16 September 2009
Bailamos! The NHFA hosted their annual gala celebrating Noche Musicál Tuesday night at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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Wonder Women
01 May 2009
The 17th Annual Kennedy Center Spring Gala celebrates Women in The Arts (and Michelle Obama).
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African Queen
27 March 2009
The National Museum of African Art fetes its new director Johnnetta Cole
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WL Insider: Paint It Art Basel
12 February 2009
Politics might be our calling card, but Washingtonians have a strong art community, and it showed this year in Miami.
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A Prat Fall
18 October 2008
By Michael M. Clements WL Insider Michael M Clements I felt the summer of ’08 melt away along with the spirit of the ’60s as I stood in the crowd at the VIRGIN MOBILE FESTIVAL. Watching a surprisingly coherent Bob Dylan, I felt privileged to see the aging Tambourine man, but conflicted knowing his anti-establishment edge had [...]
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All The World’s A Stage
01 July 2008
And in Washington there are great theaters and plenty of players.
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Runway to Enlightenment
01 May 2008
From art exhibits to film competitions, DJ classes to fashion shows, unleash your inner artist.
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Rock in the New Year
01 March 2008
From Sundance to New York Fashion Week, surviving the Y&GL, and talking Love Letters with Patti Smith.
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A French Cover Up
01 December 2007
Missed events, French women who change their mind, and the art of making covers.
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The New Sounds of Fall
01 October 2007
From African hip-hop to the National Opera’s contemporary concoction, new rhythms of the season have us dancing to a different beat.
