GBA Celebrates 40th in Top Style
• July 1, 2016

The Georgetown Business Association, founded in 1976 to promote businesses in D.C.’s oldest neighborhood and work with the other community groups and the District government, celebrated its 40th anniversary in […]

‘Tying the Knots’ of American-Russian Friendship
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On June 7, the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation celebrated the 150th anniversary of the historic U.S. Navy’s goodwill mission to Russia, reciprocating the Russian Navy’s goodwill visit during the Civil […]

Italy-U.S.A. at Dumbarton
• June 29, 2016

On May 26, the American Initiative for Italian Culture hosted its spring benefit at Dumbarton House. The event included a live auction, with items such as trips to private homes […]

Italy-U.S.A. at Dumbarton
• June 27, 2016

On May 26, the American Initiative for Italian Culture hosted its spring benefit at Dumbarton House. The event included a …

‘Tying the Knots’ of American-Russian Friendship
• June 22, 2016

On June 7, the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation celebrated the 150th anniversary of the historic U.S. Navy’s goodwill …

GBA Celebrates 40th in Top Style
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The Georgetown Business Association, founded in 1976 to promote businesses in D.C.’s oldest neighborhood and work with the …

Watergate Hotel Fetes Its Luxury, History
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Jacques and Rakel Cohen of Euro Capital Properties, owners of the Watergate Hotel, celebrated its grand reopening June 14, following …

Oprah Pledges $1M to N Street Village Women’s Shelter
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You know it’s going to be a real power lunch when Oprah Winfrey is the keynote speaker. At the …

Business Group Touts Hometown Innovation, Inventor Alexander Graham Bell
• May 23, 2016

It isn’t every day that you get to walk in the building and in the yard of a great inventor, especially when you happen to be in Georgetown.

The Georgetown Business Association held its monthly reception at Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta Bureau on 35th Street to talk up innovation in Washington, D.C., past and present. Most Georgetowners, much less Washingtonians, have never come to the AG Bell headquarters, but all use Bell’s most famous invention, the telephone.

The nonprofit, also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, aims to change that. It welcomed guests to the yellow building at 35th Street and Volta Place, built in 1893, and explained that it is celebrating 125 years of Bell’s laboratory and legacy in Georgetown. Across Volta Place stands Bell’s original laboratory and the home of the inventor’s father, Alexander Melville Bell.

GBA President Sonya Bernhardt touted Georgetown’s innovation credo — take Herman Hollerith, for example, who located his Tabulating Machine Company in what is now the Canal Square Building on 31st Street, next to the C&O Canal. The company merged with others to become International Business Machines, IBM. You could say that the computer was invented here — at least part of it.

Tech firms, such as Palantir Technologies and EverFi, thrive in D.C.’s oldest neighborhood. Add to that initiatives like StartupHoyas at Georgetown University and S&R Foundation’s Halcyon Incubator. Bernhardt also mentioned that the D.C. government is calling this month, innoMAYtion, a program that provided resources to 500 disadvantaged small businesses, and welcomed at-large council member Vincent Orange.

There are anniversaries coming up, guests learned.

The GBA will celebrate 40 years as Georgetown’s biggest business advocate at the Rosewood Hotel, June 15, and salute one of its founders, Rick Hindin, who also began the legendary clothing store

To celebrate Bell and AG Bell’s 125th anniversary, a gala will be held Sept. 29 at the National Geographic Society. One of the awardees at the gala will be Gilbert Grosvenor, who retired as chairman of the society in 2011.
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D.C. Flooded With Parties for White House Correspondents’ Week
• May 9, 2016

They call this week and long weekend many things for the main event that is the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (what with the president, politicos and journalists showing up) and all the attending parties before, during and after — “Harmless fun,” “Nerd prom,” “Yes, I was invited,” “the End Times,” “Look, it’s Joe Biden.”

Thursday, April 28

Dog Tag Storms the Hill Day Reception (with the Altria Group) — 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., 101 Constitution Ave. NW (Suite 400W).

Third Annual Women & Journalism Awards — 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Kalorama home of Gloria Dittus.

“Global Beat” Party: Devex, Foreign Affairs, UN Foundation — 6:30 p.m. to 8:30pm, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (UN Foundation headquarters).

“Bytes and Bylines” reception-buffet — 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Spanish Ambassador’s residence, 2350 Foxhall Road NW.

“Swipe the Vote” Party: Tinder and Independent Journal Review with Rock the Vote — 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Hotel W Rooftop, 555 15th St. NW.

Friday, April 29

Time and People Magazine Reception — 6 p.m. to 8pm, St. Regis hotel, 923 16th St. NW.

“Celebration of Journalism” Reception with Screen Actors Guild-Variety-Washington Post — 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Washington Post, 1301 K Street NW.

Voto Latino-Our Voices (“Diversity in Media”) — 6:30 to 9:30pm, Hay Adams (rooftop terrace), 800 16th St. NW.

The Hill-Extra-Thomson Reuters reception — 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Embassy of Canada, 501 Pennsylvania Ave NW.

The Creative Coalition’s Night Before Dinner (hosted by Tim Daly, Emily Ratajkowski, Nina Dobrev, Rosario Dawson, Neve Campbell, Gabrielle Union, Tyler Posey, Wendi McLendon-Covey,  AnnaLynne McCord, Constance Zimmer, Lisa Edelstein, Richard Schiff and others TBA) — 8 p.m., the Supper Suite by STK, 1250 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Google, HBO and Smithsonian American Art Museum party — 8 p.m., Renwick Gallery, 1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

White House Correspondents Jam II (bands with those in the media) — 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., the Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW.

The New Yorker reception — 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., W Hotel, 555 15th St. NW.

Funny or Die 4th Annual Party (location disclosed to those invited) — 11 p.m.

Saturday, April 30

Annual Garden Brunch — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Beall-Washington House, 2920 R St. NW.

The New Media Party Party — noon to 3 p.m., the Brixton, 901 U St. NW.

BuzzFeed’s WHCD Pregame — 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., D.C. office, 1630 Connecticut Ave. NW.

The Young Turks-the Huffington Post-TYT Network — 8 p.m. to 11p.m., 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW.

WHCAD pre-parties — 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Reuters; Atlantic Media-CBS News; others.

White House House Correspondents’ Association Dinner — 7:30 p.m, POTUS plus entertainer Larry Wilmore, Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.

WHCAD post-parties — 10:30 p.m., the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW. Reuters; others. Nearby: Annual Bloomberg-Vanity Fair (at the French Ambassador’s residence on Kalorama Road).

“Diamond Joe Biden’s Badass Balls-to-the-Wall Fiesta,” hosted by the Onion — 9 p.m. to 1 am, the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

MSNBC after-party — 10:30 p.m., U.S. Institute of Peace, 2301 Constitution Ave. NW.

Sunday, May 1

CNN’s Political Hangover Brunch —10 a.m. to 2pm, Longview Gallery, 1234 9th St. NW.

Thomson-Reuters Brunch — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Hay Adams, 800 16th St. NW.

Albritton brunch — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Q Street residence in Georgetown.

Arianna Huffington’s “The Sleep Revolution” book brunch — 11 a.m., the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.