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Bill Clinton poses with Pussy Riot Former president Bill Clinton might be a granddad, but he still hangs out with rock stars — well, at least when they’re on discussion panels together. Clinton shared a stage — and posed for a picture — with members of Pussy Riot, the Moscow-based punk band that’s become the face of opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The band …  Read full article »

How to turn out a crowd on an icy night? Humorist Dave Barry offered a pizza-and-wine bribe.

Many Washingtonians hunkered down at home on Thursday night amid snowy sidewalks and iced-in cars. Events around town were cancelled (heck, even the snow-blase folks at the Norwegian embassy postponed their programming). But at least one show was still on — humorist Dave Barry’s reading at Northwest D.C. bookstore Politics & Prose — and the writer used a none-too-subtle method …  Read full article »

Harrison Ford had lobbied Congress about cuts affecting private aviation
Actor Harrison Ford, who was injured Thursday night when his small vintage plane crashed into  a Venice, Calif., golf course, has long been an advocate for private pilots and small airfields. In fact, he took his cause to Congress, arguing in 2013 that Congress should stave off cuts in the Federal Aviation Administration that would affect …  Read full article »