Reliable Source: New Republic’s Gabriel Snyder calls mag’s massive shake-up ‘some changes’

Fri., Feb. 20, 2015 View in your Web browser

Ashton Kutcher and Loretta Lynn are not Obama’s Cabinet picks President Obama might have a few celebrity pals, but let’s get something straight: His inner circle of top officials does not include the star of “Two and a Half Men.” Nor The Coal Miner’s Daughter. People keep confusing Ashton Carter, the new defense secretary, for hunky actor Ashton Kutcher. And not just regular folks scanning …  Read full article »

New Republic’s Gabriel Snyder calls mag’s massive shake-up ‘some changes’

Euphemism alert! New Republic’s new editor-in-chief, Gabriel Snyder, spoke at Wednesday night’s National Press Foundation’s annual awards dinner at the Washington Hilton — a gathering of Beltway journalists and other assorted media types — and his allusion to the blood-letting at the 100- year old magazine in December was a study in understatement. After talking about disruption throughout …  Read full article »

D.C. Councilman Jack Evans and his wife have split

D.C. Councilman Jack Evans and his wife of more than four years, interior designer Michele Seiver, have split, according to several people who know the couple. The couple, who married in 2010, broke up sometime in the fall, their friends say. Seiver has moved back into her home in D.C.’s Spring Valley neighborhood, which she kept …  Read full article »