Maybe you feel like no one has your back, like you’ve been let down by people so many times that you’ve stopped believing in yourself. Maybe you feel like your destiny was written the day you were born and you ought to just rein in your hopes and scale back your dreams.
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JOSE ANDRES: NO MAS RIDGID RIDGEWELLS
Star chef and restaurateur Jose Andres was in town this week with his next big thing - the giant paella pan. I believe the Jolly Green Giant size cooker made two public appearances in town this month — at the White House Farmers Market which is open for [...]
Heads of state and their spouses are often not the people to consult for travel tips. Itineraries are meticulously crafted, and even entire environments are altered to give the right impression. I enjoy travel, but I usually (and maybe due to my own financial limitations) experience place on the same terms as a [...]
After the Health Care Summit, President Obama had one more item on his plate: the presentation of the National Medals of the Arts and Humanities at the White House. The recipients were selected in 2009 and received their medals yesterday (February 25). This ceremony was postponed due to the shooting at Fort [...]
Yesterday, I had the pleasure and opportunity to see White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and deputy social secretary Joe Reinstein at a meeting of NATCAP, the national society of government meeting professionals inside the National Archives building in downtown Washington. I have to give NATCAP credit, so far there has been no press [...]
Michelle Obama celebrates her 46th birthday today. Last night Nora’s, an organic restaurant in DC’s Dupont Circle, was the scene for the First Lady’s surprise birthday party. Nora has good food, but I find the mac and cheese a bit pricey especially considering I make my own…from scratch! And my sister’s 3-cheese [...]
Nikki Finke has a partial list of Hollywood guests for tonight’s White House state dinner for Indian prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and his wife, Ms. Gursharan Kaur. Note the word “expected” which means the full guest list printed in tomorrow” Washington Post will confirm the validity of Ms. Finke’s source. Her post [...]
I usually reserve Saturdays to post the President’s Weekly message, but this Saturday, eclectique|916 turns the post over to Michelle Obama. You can view and read the President’s Weekly here. [Topic is helping small business through bank lending and health care reform.]
In a video PSA posted on the White House website, the First [...]
SYMPOSIUM: Cuba in the World: Literature, Politics, Performance
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Ariel Fernandez at the Future of Music Policy Summit. Ariel’s working on a new documentary “Hip-Hop in Cuba: a Revolution Within the Revolution.” He sent me an email to let me know that he’s in [...]
Anna Wintour’s 60 Minutes interview - I guess the most revealing moment of this one-on-one with the 59-year-old editor of American Vogue is that she removed her signature shades to talk with Morley Safer. I see Wintour’s “decisiveness” as her strength in the fashion industry; others may hate her for it. But there [...]
