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It's every party planner's worst nightmare: no one shows up. That's what happened yesterday at Occupy Congress, a protest that was prepared for 10,000 people but only attracted a laughable few hundred.

The same thing happened at the Key Bridge protest, when more media turned up for the show than actual occupy protesters.

I get that it's a bad economy. I get that many are underpaid and unemployed. It totally stinks for a huge majority of teens and twenty-somethings...

...but aren't there a few marketing majors in the Occupy crowd? Event planners? More»

Guest of a Guest DC re-launched, Weiner got caught in a sext scandal, an innocent old lady was murdered by her young husband in Georgetown, Ashley Biden got engaged, Carol Joynt bounced back, Michaele Salahi got kidnapped, and more happened in DC in 2011:

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A report by Bundle.com listed Washington, D.C. as the top "shopaholic" city, with people spending an average of $263/month on clothes. Arlington was hot on D.C.'s Louboutin heels, with Arlingtonians spending an average of $254/month. More»

The two metal detectors at the Old Post Office Pavilion probably wouldn't have stuck out to us so much if we hadn't waited in 45 minutes with hundreds of people to get into the Postal Pavilion Halloween Party on Saturday. We might not even have minded the wait if it had been a seasonally appropriate 50-degree night. More»