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Dressed Up With Nowhere to Dance
Tiffany Shannon, right, with her cousin Joya Holley, center, and friend Sindy Edward, shortly before they headed out to the American Music Inaugural Ball, which, unbeknown to them, had been canceled. (Courtesy Tiffany Shannon) Ah, the humanity! Of all the...
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January 23, 2009; 1:03 AM ET |
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For Miss D.C., It's About More Than Just a Tiara
Left to right: Miss District of Columbia Kate Marie Grinold, Miss Virginia Tara Wheeler and Miss Maryland Louise Schlegel speak at Discovery Communications HQ Jan. 8. (Courtesy of Discovery Communications) One day until the other coronation: The 88th crowning of...
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January 23, 2009; 1:02 AM ET |
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Bradley Whitford gets a tour of the National Air & Space Museum from curator Bob Van Der Linden Thursday. (Courtesy of the National Air & Space Museum) Stars! When will they leave? Paul Reiser (you know, the "Mad About...
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January 23, 2009; 1:01 AM ET |
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Quoted
(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) "Mother Nature was not very kind to me. I'm going to deal with her when I get home. It, by no means, was my standard." -- Aretha Franklin telling Larry King that the cold weather hurt...
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January 23, 2009; 1:00 AM ET |
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All Men Are Created Equal -- Except the VIPs
Husband-and-wife entertainers Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez weave through the Artists and Athletes Alliance reception at Café Milano Monday night. (Maile Krauss/3 Dog Agency) A new democratic era? Not at inaugural parties this week, where our era's great manifestation...
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January 22, 2009; 1:04 AM ET |
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One Last Inaugural Ball -- This Time for Staffers
Jay-Z -- again! (Getty Images file photo) One last inaugural ball! President Obama hailed a couple thousand supporters, mostly 20- and 30-somethings, at a party for campaign staffers at the D.C. Armory last night. "You guys dress a lot...
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January 22, 2009; 1:03 AM ET |
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Oprah Watch: Inauguration Edition
Oprah and Stedman Graham arrive at Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) So, what happened to that big Oprah party everyone expected? Never happened -- she decided that too many events were already scheduled, BFF Gayle King told...
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January 22, 2009; 1:02 AM ET |
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T.I. at the BET Inauguration Celebration Monday. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) T.I. making a quiet visit to Oak Hill, the District's juvenile detention center in Laurel, on Monday. The rapper, who headlined the Hip-Hop Inaugural Ball and attended a couple...
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January 22, 2009; 1:01 AM ET |
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Condoleezza Rice (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) Malia and Sasha Obama got a surprise Tuesday night: the Jonas Brothers. While their parents danced at the balls, the White House staff arranged for a party and scavenger hunt -- with the...
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January 22, 2009; 1:00 AM ET |
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Inaugural Ball Central -- Read About Them All Here
Two big wrapups of the inaugural balls, official and unofficial: Parties in Power: At 10 Inaugural Balls, the Obama Glow Steps Forward By Manuel Roig-Franzia "We are neighborhood people." So says Barack Obama. Some neighborhood. Jay-Z and Will.I.Am in the...
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January 21, 2009; 1:21 PM ET |
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Three Pros Who Know How to Pose
Sarah Silverman and Jessica Alba do the red carpet thing at the Huffington Post Pre-Inaugural Ball Monday. (Photo by Joe Kohen/Getty Images) Perfectly lovely pre-ball dinner the Impact Film Fund threw last night -- open bar, tasty food --...
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January 21, 2009; 2:00 AM ET |
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Youth Ball, Part III
DeNeen Brown reports: Musician Usher has this to say about Obama: "He's pretty cool. Old school is good." "The dance was incredible," Usher adds, speaking of the ball slow dance Barack Obama and Michelle did earlier in the evening, swirling...
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January 21, 2009; 12:56 AM ET |
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Youth Ball, Part II
(Reuters/Jim Young) Our colleague DeNeen Brown reports: Geraldo Rivera is in rose color shades speaking in superlatives. Kanye West just told a story on stage about his grandfather. "To see this day... This is the greatest story ever told."...
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January 21, 2009; 12:27 AM ET |
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Youth Ball, Part I
Kid Rock at the Youth Ball. (Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) Our colleague DeNeen Brown reports: Early on at the Youth ball, a smell of barbecue is spilling out onto the dance floor and Kid Rock is singing an old song, which...
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January 21, 2009; 12:15 AM ET |
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z before Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony. (Reuters/Jim Young) John Legend making a last-minute rush through the Chevy Chase Bloomingdale's yesterday evening with a lady friend who still needed to buy a gown. Samuel L. Jackson and Vanessa Williams...
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January 21, 2009; 12:01 AM ET |
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Hurricane Victims Recalled at Southern Ball
Another dance, this time at the Southern Ball. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) Our colleague Emily Yahr reports: At 10 minutes before 8 p.m., the coat check supervisor at the Southern Inaugural Ball at the National Guard D.C. Armory frantically...
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January 20, 2009; 11:59 PM ET |
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Trying to Trade Up at Midwest Ball
Sheryl Crow: Missing home at the Midwest Ball. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) Our colleague Michelle Thomas reports: At 6:00 p.m., Sheryl Crow is conducting a soundcheck. "I have not seen my child in four days," she says into the...
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January 20, 2009; 11:59 PM ET |
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Snowboots and Barbie Dresses at Mid-Atlantic Ball
Wyclef Jean performs at the Mid-Atlantic Ball. (Reuters/Mark Blinch) Our colleague Holly Thomas reports: In a chilly ballroom, the crowd at the Mid-Atlantic State Ball is warm and cuddly. Guests are dressed in everything from pink Barbie-esque confections to...
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January 20, 2009; 11:00 PM ET |
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Delaware Rising at Biden Home States Ball
As Jill Biden looks on, Vice President Joe Biden addresses the crowd during a quick stop at the Biden Home States Ball. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Our colleague Paul Farhi reports: At the slow-building Biden Home States Ball at...
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January 20, 2009; 10:32 PM ET |
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Cheers for Biden at C in C Ball
Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) Our colleague Jackie Trescott reports: Arriving at 8:50 p.m. to speak to the 2,000 military personnel at the Commander in Chief's Ball at the National Building Museum, Vice...
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January 20, 2009; 10:24 PM ET |
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Western Ball in Texas-Sized Room
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony talk on stage before performing together at the Western Ball. (Reuters/Mitch Dumke) Our colleague David Nakamura reports: The Western Ball took place in a room as expansive as the open plains, in the largest...
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January 20, 2009; 10:12 PM ET |
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Heard at the Neighborhood Ball
"Look how hot Michelle's looking with that one-shoulder dress!" --Carly Dodson, a student from Springfield, Va., reacting favorably to Michelle Obama's flowy white Jason Wu gown. She told our colleague, White House reporter Michael A. Fletcher: "I'm just so excited...
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January 20, 2009; 9:40 PM ET |
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Obamas at the Balls: First Dance
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) The crowd has been rocking out with Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey at the Neighborhood Ball inside one of the ballrooms of the cavernous Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and then, precisely at 8:30...
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January 20, 2009; 9:14 PM ET |
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Chanting at the Peace Ball
Eclectic get-ups mixed amid the tuxes give the 1,300-person Peace Ball at the National Postal Museum a rally-like feel. That, and the ball opens with a call-and-response chant. The call from stage: "We must choose to take America --" "Back!"...
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January 20, 2009; 9:13 PM ET |
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A Familiar Face at Home States
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama make their entrance at the Obama Home States Ball. (Lucian Perkins/The Washington Post) Over at the Home States Ball, a major sighting, reports Monica Hesse: "Oh my gosh there's Barack!" Myrna...
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January 20, 2009; 9:02 PM ET |
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Cheers for the End of Bush Era at 'Out for Equality'
Our colleague Jose Antonio Vargas reports: "Can you believe it?" howled Ross Mathews, the outrageous, in-your-face TV personality ("The Tonight Show," "Celebrity Fitness," "The View"). "He's finally gone!" To the throng of gays and lesbians gathered in downtown Washington, "he"...
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January 20, 2009; 8:53 PM ET |
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The Latest Cold Weather Accessory
Guests at the Washington Convention Center's six Inaugural balls had been told they could enter the building at 5 p.m., but at 5:30 the doors were still closed, thanks to something to do with the magnetrons. In the freezing line,...
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January 20, 2009; 7:59 PM ET |
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Bill Clinton: Still Talking After All These Years
Valerie Jarrett and Bill Clinton share a laugh at Vernon Jordan's and Buffy Cafritz's pre-inaugural party Monday. (Jim Brantley) The more things change, the more Bill Clinton.....talks. And talks. And talks. The country's "first black president" until the real...
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January 20, 2009; 3:06 PM ET |
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Update: American Music Ball Cancelled; Talent Heads to Heroes Ball
The American Music Ball has been cancelled, according to a rep for the Marriott Wardman Park hotel where it was to have been hosted. However, some of its big-name entertainers will find a home at another struggling inaugural fete --...
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January 20, 2009; 11:46 AM ET |
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Are We Having A Ball Yet?: The Inaugural Party Bubble Bursts
**UPDATED: American Music Ball cancelled, and some of its talent heads to Heroes Ball; read more here. ** Don't you hate it when you pop a bottle of champagne and it's flat? So, too, with some of these inaugural balls....
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January 20, 2009; 1:38 AM ET |
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Cattle Drive No. 3
At the Huffington Post takeover Wednesday night of the Newseum, a purgatory of overly familiar faces (Sting, Ricky Schroeder, John King, D.L. Hughley) and strangers pressed body to body in a grotesque simulacrum of exclusivity, groveling for tiny morsels of...
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January 20, 2009; 12:30 AM ET |
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Cattle Drive No. 2
Quite the scene at that glittering glass fortress known as the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on the Potomac River. Some 12,000 revelers at Texas' Black Tie & Boots gala inched their way, heel to toe, from ballroom to...
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January 20, 2009; 12:10 AM ET |
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Cattle Drive No. 1
Uh-oh: The shape of things to come Inaugural Night? Huddled masses all down and around the long block outside the Renaissance Hotel about 9:40 Wednesday evening, waiting to get into the Illinois Inaugural Gala. Mink upon mink upon mink....
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January 20, 2009; 12:05 AM ET |
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Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger ? You'd think he would have had enough of the Hudson after so smoothly crash-landing US Airways flight 1549 into the river last week. But no: Last night, in town with a special inauguration invite,...
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January 19, 2009; 9:30 PM ET |
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Caroline Kennedy (Paul J. Richards -- AFP/getty Images) Special inaugural edition, continued... Caroline Kennedy on the train from New York to D.C. Monday morning with husband Ed Schlossberg -- in a regular car, though they got up and moved...
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January 19, 2009; 3:15 PM ET |
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AWOLs at Heroes Ball: Big-Name Talent Vanishes?
Don't look for Jamie Foxx at the Heroes Ball (Mark J. Terrill - AP) About face! Forget about the huge talent lineup hyped for an unofficial military ball tomorrow, which was supposed to include actor Jamie Foxx, the rapper...
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January 19, 2009; 3:05 PM ET |
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Oprah's D.C. Inaugural Debut: The Root Ball
Oprah hobnobbed in The Root Ball's VIP room. (Courtesy of The Root) Turns out that being at a party with Oprah isn't really like being at a party with Oprah. Which isn't to say that it wasn't a pretty...
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January 19, 2009; 11:53 AM ET |
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Luda, Nelly, Silverman: Hot in Herre Indeed!
Impact Film Fund: MUST get into this party! The upstart non-profit made a name for themselves at the Democratic convention last summer for managing to pull the biggest Hollywood names, and their Sunday late night party was considered a hipster...
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January 19, 2009; 11:28 AM ET |
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Update: Rhee and Johnson Out Together at Parties
Kevin Johnson hugging Michelle Rhee after testifying on her behalf at her confirmation hearing last year. (Dayna Smith) Okay, can we call them a power couple now? D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and former NBA star turned Sacramento Mayor...
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January 19, 2009; 9:48 AM ET |
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Old D.C. Parties On
Ann Walker Marchant with Cher (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Change? Change what? Permanent Washington -- socialites, lobbyists, media folk, sports stars, safe-seaters -- isn't going anywhere, thank you, but it was happy to use the inauguration as cause to party this...
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January 19, 2009; 1:00 AM ET |
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Oprah's BFF Hits the Parties, Tries to Stay Warm
Gayle King, center with Arianna Huffington, left, and Hilary Rosen at Debra Lee's home Friday. (Roxanne Roberts/The Washington Post) You know, just another Washington night, talking underwear with Oprah's best friend. Gayle King got off a plane Friday night...
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January 18, 2009; 4:37 PM ET |
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Obama's Sister Maya Is Early Inaugural Star
Maya Soetoro-Ng, Barack Obama's half-sister, speaks with churchgoers in Hawaii last June. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman) It must be in the genes. Barack Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng got the rock-star treatment --packed room, cellphone cameras hoisted above heads -- at...
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January 18, 2009; 3:38 PM ET |
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Hey, Isn't That. . . ?
Oh, you know who. (Getty Images) Special inaugural edition Oprah Winfrey -- first D.C. inaugural weekend sighting! (that we know of. . . you all holding back on us?) -- passing through Bourbon Steak, the restuarant at the Four...
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January 18, 2009; 2:00 PM ET |
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