Reliable Source: Sen. Mitch McConnell is star of annual Alfalfa dinner

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Charlie Sheen gets shut down at Old Ebbitt Grill Hey isn’t that… Actor and the high king of quotables Charlie Sheen trying (and epically failing) to keep the Superbowl XLIX party going near the White House early Monday morning/late Sunday night? According to a tipster, Sheen showed up at the Old Ebbitt Grill at around 2:15 a.m. on Monday. The restaurant closes at 2 …  Read full article »

Billionaire Warren Buffett pregames at the Palm

Hey isn’t that … billionaire Warren Buffet sitting in his booth — that would be No. 55 — on Friday night at the Palm? In town for the annual Alfalfa Club dinner at the Capital Hilton, Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, spent the night before the big dinner noshing on veal parmigiana and sautéed spinach with …  Read full article »

How Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West ended up at a small vegan resto on Georgia Ave.

Nu Vegan Cafe is no Cafe Milano (or Bibiana or Fiola Mare, for that matter). Those Washington restos are among the the reliable VIP magnets where a celebrity sighting — Oh, hey there, Lionel Richie, Claire Danes, Steven Tyler and John Wall — comes with your side of Brussels sprouts. No, Nu Vegan, which serves no animal or …  Read full article »

Sen. Mitch McConnell is star of annual Alfalfa dinner

Mitt who? The big name on everyone lips following Saturday night’s Alfalfa Club dinner wasn’t the non-presidential candidate’s. Instead–and somewhat surprisingly–Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the breakout star of the annual titans-of-every-industry schmooze fest at the Capital Hilton. Mitch, the 102-year-old club’s incoming president and the night’s main speaker, definitely outshone Mitt, one the club’s newest inductees, a.k.a. a “sprout,” …  Read full article »

‘Turtleman’ Ernie Lee Brown gets civilized at Georgetown restaurant

Hey, isn’t that…Ernie Lee Brown, aka wild-critter trapper known as the “Turtleman” from Animal Planet’s “Call of the Wildman,” dining out in surprisingly civilized style at Georgetown’s Old Europe restaurant? It was a long way from his usual backwoods milieu, but Brown seemed right at home, a spy says, posing for pictures with fans before …  Read full article »

Mark Shriver penning book on Pope Francis

Kennedy scion Mark Shriver’s last book was about his own dad, Sargent Shriver. The subject of his next?  The Holy Father. Shriver is writing a book about Pope Francis for Random House, he told pals in an e-mail today. The publisher’s executive editor, former Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham will edit, Shriver says. “The Pope has …  Read full article »