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Just like Nick Naylor and the Merchants of Death in Thank You For Smoking, lobbyists, top staffers, and other DC deal bots have their go-to spots for power lunches. I got some help from my favorite lobbyist, my dad Nick Pyle. He has been a lobbyist for decades, largely repping food clients, which makes him a double expert:

Despite the freak snowstorm DC endured Saturday, the night was setup for success with a 17-bar lineup and $5 Red Bull & Barcardi Torched Cherry Bombs. With girls freezing in their teeny costumes while waiting on hour long lines (ie. Sign of the Whale), everyone was excited to warm up on the dance floors next to plenty of funky, fuzzy and downright scary identities. Although McFadden's had their own costume contest, we compiled our collection of favorite costumes from the crawl. And while the bar crawl claimed to be a "nightmare" of a night, all the attendees would agree with me in saying the hangover was a way worse nightmare, unless you took advantage of bottomless mimosas at Sunday morning brunch.

After closing her first deal in June, realtor agent Diana C. Minshall, 28, closed seven more deals in July to round her hot summer as TTR Sotheby's youngest realtor--ever. She looks forward to her busy fall and shares her intel on DC's next big neighborhoods. More»

Socials gathered for a party at District Underground in Adams Morgan to celebrate the re-launch of Guest of a Guest DC.

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If you stay cooped up tonight, you're letting Irene win.

While some of us might be disinclined to fête it up with a woman whose greatest claim to fame is supposedly crashing a White House party, others might feel the complete opposite: being near Salahi is kind of like being near Obama, right? More»

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Trawling Flickr can be really tiresome (we know, our lives are really hard). But every now and then you stumble upon gems such as these, some awesome old photos of D.C. from the days when everything was in black and white. More»

Squeaky clean boy band the Jonas Brothers did what any pure Americana God fearing band does on holiday - they went to the National Museum of American History on a Sunday morning (rather than tearing up D.C on a three day bender, like their wild heavy metal boy band predecessors of the 80's). More»

via dc.guestofaguest.com: GofG just launched it's Washington D.C. site. Like, right now. Go check it out! It's still in, what the nerds like to call, "beta version," but it's up! And just in time! This weekend's White House Corespondents' Dinner is tomorrow!

It's one thing to hear that Washington D.C. has the worst HIV/AIDS problem in America. But when The Other City, a new documentary, says that "the capital city of the most powerful country on earth" has higher infection rates than Port-au-Prince and Dakar, the most surprising thing about the statistic may be that you haven't heard it before. More»