Reliable Source: Kevin Costner and Anthony Mackie have a ‘very honest’ conversation about race

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Kevin Costner and Anthony Mackie have a ‘very honest’ conversation about race Hey isn’t that… Actors Kevin Costner and Anthony Mackie, stars of the new movie “Black or White,” mixing in straight talk about race while making a publicity blitz pit stop in Washington on Wednesday night? Before a film screening at the Motion Picture Association of America, about 80 VIPs gathered for an intimate sit-down dinner and discussion on …  Read full article »

Jill Biden among the guests at book party for NEA’s Lily Eskelsen Garcia

Picture a stuffy Washington book party, with its typical stilted, earnest conversations and tiny glasses of chardonnay. That was definitely not the scene at Wednesday night’s fete for National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia at Chinatown restaurant Oyamel. Margaritas were flowing, Rep. Jared Polis’s toddler son was roaming around charming guests, and the guac station was …  Read full article »

Athletes don’t always wear ties to meet the president: Check out Reagan and the Lakers #TBT

This week, we reported on the eyebrow raising that followed the White House visit by the 2014 NBA champs, the San Antonio Spurs. Tim Duncan showed up sans tie, which experts deemed a major fashion faux pas. But it seems there’s precedent for cravat-less athletes shaking the president’s hand. For this week’s Throwback Thursday let’s revisit 1985, when …  Read full article »

Local chef George Pagonis still in the game on ‘Top Chef’

Kapnos chef George Pagonis wasn’t the only local on this week’s low-stakes episode of Bravo’s “Top Chef.”  The cooking-competition show — in producers’ never-ending quest to ramp up drama — invited family members of the final four chef-testants to serve as sous-chefs, even as they announced that no one was going to be eliminated. For Pagonis, that meant …  Read full article »

Tom Hanks pens essay in support of Obama’s free community college plan

Tom Hanks wants you to know that without community college there would be no Tom Hanks. Thus and therefore, President Obama’s recently announced plan to make community college free for everyone could produce more Tom Hankses. Ipso facto, this plan is good for America. “President Obama hopes to make two years of free community college accessible for …  Read full article »

A ‘West Wing’ reunion? A ‘West Wing’ reunion!

Looks like President Bartlett and his gang of fast-talking aides are reassembling. But before the approximately 83 percent of Washingtonians who just looooved that show get too excited, they should know this: The reunion appears to be a temporary one. Former “WW”-ers, including Martin Sheen, Dule Hill, Bradley Whitford, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Joshua Malina …  Read full article »