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Do you remember the swinging social scene of early-1960s Washington? So many parties with those fun-loving and oft-assassinated Kennedy boys! And then George W. Bush ruined it all when he was appointed president four decades later. That’s the gist of this six-hundred-page Vanity Fair recollection about the glamorous good old days of yesteryear, and it prompted one Washingtonian to pen the following recollection of the glamorous Clinton years.

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Every now and then, we come across legitimate excuses to get trashed on a Monday - proof of God’s everlasting love for the working man (and woman, I guess). If you’re still in the District and have yet plan out your New Year’s festivities, you’ve got quite a few options for how to spend your final evening of 2007 (some more expensive than others). It’s been one hell of a year, and we’re going to try to make it one hell of a night. MORE »

This morning, the entire gay community of Washington sent us a link to Metro Weekly’s photo gallery of local teh coalition of teh geyz, Axis of Fun, at its (in)famous Janky Christmas Sweater Festival of Lights festivus last weekend. Adorable. But eff that gallery, we made our own, culled from submissions from the last few days. Holy McHaney, these guys have a lot of enemies! I thought gay people were all nice to each other and shit. Not.

Libertarian super-chic magazine Reason held its “Secular Christmas” party in DC last night, and Team Wonkette was all over that shit. Among the many (one) super celebrity guests was Christopher Hitchens, whose alcohol tummy shone in full force as he led a sing along to a secular version of the already-secular “Deck the Halls” carol. Then he left before we could say hi, totally lame, screw that guy. But editor Nick Gillespie — who I think I’ve called a Paultard a few times — was kindly, and we thank him for the several bottles of Yellow Tail shiraz that we chugged. Anyway, masterful chronicler of the Human Condition Liz Gorman was on the scene to take some photos, so check them out if you want to live.

Oh, we certainly did not forget. Local coalition of gays Axis of Fun, which provided us with lots of material not long ago, held its 2nd Annual Janky Christmas Sweater Festival of Lights(!) on Saturday. We heard Wonkette’s meddling in AOF’s affairs were causing quite the stir in DC’s gay scene, and we’d like to continue this (for no apparent reason other than our penchant for stirring). So please, AOF lovers and haters — and we know you’re out there — send us as many party pix as possible! A Janky McHaney X-mas to you all.

Old man Politico sure is concerned about those Hill staffers not getting their holiday parties, what with damnable new ethics laws poisoning the egg nog. Le sigh. But hey, who are those sexy looking “staffers” in the accompanying photo? MORE »

The Kennedy Center held its 30th Honors gala last night, and thankfully we didn’t have to sit through it. Among the honorees were Brian Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Diana Ross, Steve Martin and Leon Fleisher, who all must have been thrilled to see George W. and the Lady Bush attending. And the event organizers really spared no expense in celebrating Brian Wilson’s incomprehensibly brilliant career: Hootie and the Blowfish performed a medley of his Beach Boys work for him. So it sounds like it was a fun time at the Kennedy Center Honors last night. [WP]

We continue to celebrate our last day by presenting scenes from yet another party that we neglected to attend. This one was the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts’ Eleventh Annual Noche de Gala Dinner, held last week at the Mayflower’s Grand Ballroom. Honored guests included, Jimmy Smits, Kenny Ortega, Ed Markey, and FCC commisioner Robert McDowell. And our own Liz Glover and Liz Gorman, who documented the whole affair for your enjoyment. Gorman’s gallery may be found here! And some of Glover’s reflections are after the jump.

Noche de Gala Gallery

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Bill Clinton threw a huge book party for the first novel by Chelsea’s ex-boyfriend Ian Klaus! And Chelsea brought her new boyfriend! Awkward! Though, seriously, they’re all still friends. So adult! Anyway if you’re a struggling novelist you better try to get with John McCain’s blogger daughter ASAP. Update: Not a novel! Whoops! All truth is relative etc etc [WP]

Last week, local British clothing emporium The District Line opened its flagship store in Georgetown. And because we bought a coat there once and also our friend designed the place and also especially because there was free gin all night we went to their party! And brought the intrepid Liz Gorman, who took pictures! And then we were going to put these pictures up on Monday but we forgot and then it became kind of a hectic week soon thereafter and so now, here they are, finally, the photos from the District Line party.

District Line Opening Gallery

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Considering that party promotion is already one of the most annoying professions in the world, it takes more than a little something extra to get noticed. It takes levels of un-self-conscious douchery that most people can’t even dream of. Back in June a friend forwarded me an email from a a dude she’d never heard of before inviting her to party that sounded like the worst thing either of us had ever heard of.

Kick off the 1st Official Night of Summer 2007! Mojito’s & Ketel One Citroen Specials all night! Music by DJ Alex Funk playing 80’s + Current Hits. No Cover Charge - Resort Attire = Seersucker, Topsiders, Pearls, Madras, Popped Collars, Red Pants and Sundresses.

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It is apparently “National House Party Night” and what better way to celebrate than with a kegger in support of that champion of alternative lifestyles, Rudy Giuliani? We learned about this morning at the Calitolist, that anonymous message board for hill staffers. It might be a joke but they promise a live webcast from “a presidential candidate himself.” Details after the jump. MORE »

It’s Monday, we’re hungover, you’re hungover, so here are some pictures of young DCenesters in their underwear. We’ll get to the substantive stuff later. [BYT]

When GQ put out their list of the most powerful people in Washington, we all had a good laugh at how dumb some of their choices were. Then because we are whores we accepted their invite to a party at Cafe Milano last Monday night (never forget!). Liz Gorman came too, she took pictures. We just drank. Gallery here, random recollections after the jump.

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