XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been a year since one of the greatest nights of my life - election night 2008. For one 24-hour period, everything that was wrong with the world was suddenly okay. Fixable. The feeling in Washington the next morning was brilliant. In a city that went 92% to Obama , there was an incredible and rare sense of true community. For 2010, I'd like to hear THIS version of Janet Jackson return to music....
You Served (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
On Tuesday, November 10, at 8:30AM EST, the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE), a non-profit public benefit corporation whose mission is to help soldiers transition to civilian careers, will host a launch breakfast and press conference at the Newseum in Washington, DC. A major grant announcement and new partnership will also be unveiled. Recent trends [...]
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders of the U.S. Helsinki Commission said Wednesday the U.S. must lead the fight against modern tools of repression and consistently raise human rights concerns. Standing in front of the largest piece of the Berlin Wall outside Germany (Newseum's Berlin Wall in Washington, Nov. 4, 2009), U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission...
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
JW Marriott Hotel Washington DC is now offering a hotel package for DC's newest museum, Newseum. Enjoy great rates, an ideal location and a unique and educational experience at this Newseum hotel.
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Still from John Gerrard's "Animated Scene" (Oil Field), 2007 > > Directions: John Gerrard opens this Thursday at the Hirshhorn . In this exhibit, see Gerrard's farm-scapes and oil fields that raise questions regarding man's use and abuse of the environment. > > At the National Portrait Gallery , three artists ask the question: What is community? Rose Frantzen, Jim Torok, and...
EDD Blog Online (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The eDiscovery Institute is hosting its 5th Annual Gourmet Pizza After Party* at the Newseum in Washington DC on Thursday, November 12th, 2009, after the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced eDiscovery Institute CLE Program. It’s a great opportunity to interact and mingle with some of the leading e-discovery jurists, lawyers and providers. Last year’s party drew 150 participants, and...
Going Out Gurus (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
What do you get when you combine China's Terra Cotta Warriors, Pacman and crossbred chickens? That would be the local arts scene this month. Here's the rundown: The Terra Cotta Warriors march into Washington this month. (Wang de Gang) The 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall is not going by unnoticed, what with dance performances, a Newseum family day and various art exhibitions. Among those is Iconoclash!,...
Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Easily the weakest link in the Wall Street Journal’s Op-Ed page is Thomas Frank, who also happens to be the Journal’s token liberal. To be sure, at least one of Frank’s political opposites on the Journal’s Op-Ed pages writes about as much nonsense as Frank—particularly on the subject of fiscal responsibility. That would be Karl Rove, who encouraged his Presidential boss...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The Newseum's show for American Public Television, "The Future of News with Frank Sesno " presents "Digital Democracy: Who Decides What's Next?" on Saturday October 31, 2009 at 11.30 AM. Guests for this taping are the first chief technology officer for the White House, Aneesh Chopra and Ellen S. Miller , co-founder of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates openness in government...
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
In anticipation of the arrival of the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit at National Geographic headquarters, Destination DC is offering a Weekend Warriors Package from mid-November to the end of March. The Terra Cotta Warriors, the guardians of China's first emperor,...
Marc Gunther (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Lots has been written and said about green skyscrapers (like Bank of America’s $1 billion tower in Manhattan) and green campus buildings (like this one at Oberlin College) and even, strange as it sounds, green mansions (like the Atlanta home of Laura Turner Seydel). But what about green housing for the poor? Is that possible? [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Christiane Amanpour is surveying her studio, proud. It is typically, grandiosely, CNN. Her name scrolls in giant letters across a dozen flat-screen televisions, bathed in a rich red. Along the vast video wall that dominates one side of the set, a map of the world floats in blue.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Yesterday I live-blogged a bit from the terrific Government 2.0 event produced by FedScoop.com at the Newseum in Washington, DC. I wrote a post about how collaboration was not the means, but rather an end made possible by the means of social networking tools. You can read my original writing and some initial comments here. Below, I expand a bit...
Standing FIRM (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
I have been writing about Lou Dobbs for over a year now. Recently I attended a protest in front of the Newseum here in Washington, DC to protest CNN launching their new “Latinos in America” series while they continue to broadcast the hate of Dobbs every week day. Courting the Latino population while simultaneously aiding [...]
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