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 also says [...]
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 Lady [...]
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 DC this week [...]
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 it is. [...]
Okay, it’s official for those who caught this on the web days ago. Bo, a Portuguese water dog and gift from Senator Edward Kennedy (who owns a few), is to be the Obama family’s dog inside the White House. Bo hails from a kennel in Texas – a return. Oops was that from the unofficial [...]
I teared up myself when I saw this story on “Today.” Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy U.S. Unemployment hits 8.5% This number doesn’t include the under-employed, i.e. part-time workers, or the folks who’ve just given up. The National Endowment for the Arts releases their report on Artist Unemployment [...]
I remember getting my first St. Patrick’s Day card…from Ireland. The card was from a former co-worker who had repatriated to Ireland with her husband. I was surprised that it didn’t have dancing leprechauns or a “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” kind of limerick. It was quite sober, sweet, and religious. Like choosing an angel over [...]
My friends at WETA TV 26 are probably thrilled to the gills because they’re at the White House right now taping the first “In Performance at the White House” for the Obama Presidency. Presdient Obama presents Stevie Wonder with the second Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song named for song writers George and [...]
I like totally spaced out on Fashion Week (Fall 2009 collections) which wrapped up in NYC yesterday. On the topic of “fashion,” I tend to defer to Robin Givhan on this blog. Like me, Robin knows fashion is more than just expensive clothes. And we don’t obsess over Anna Wintour’s sunglasses. In the Washington Post [...]
