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Massachusetts Gov. Patrick introduces new book, April 13
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will introduce his new book, "A Reason to Believe: Lessons From an Improbable Life," at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 13. In January 2007, Patrick became the first African American governor of Massachusetts, one of only two African American governors elected in American history. That was just one triumphant step in a long, improbable journey that began in a poor tenement on the south side of Chicago -- from a chaotic childhood to an elite boarding school in New England to a sojourn doing relief work in Africa to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies and now to…
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Eat, Meet, Love? Wine dinner with Washington Post's "Cooking for One" columnist, March 29, $70
Join the Washington Post Food section's Joe Yonan for a six-course meal featuring recipes from Yonan's new cookbook, "Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One," at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at the Fourth Estate restaurant. Yonan, who has two James Beard Awards, will share his methods for creating simply good food in great variety and in portions to suit the 31 million single adults feeding themselves every day. Couples and groups are welcome. You can, after all, double the recipes. But there will be special tables set aside for single diners so they can meet, greet and eat! The…
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Find out how to get your stories found online, 6:30 pm March 16
Vanessa Fox, a former Google staffer and founder of Webmaster Central, will discuss search engine optimization at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in the Murrow Room. RSVP to [email protected] Fox will provide a primer on the best ways to get your stories to show up in Internet searches. In an event sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, she'll cover how search engines determine results; key ways of integrating search best practices; connecting with readers through search while maintaining the integrity of the story; how to optimize Google News, images, video and…
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Thriller author discusses "Devil's Light," 6:30 pm May 4
Author Richard North Patterson will discuss his latest thriller, The Devil's Light, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 4. A nuclear bomb is about to explode in a major city whose streets will turn bright with the light of a thousand suns. That's the setting for a novel in which Patterson slips into the minds of the mad and messianic and explores what it will mean for all of us if we allow an apocalyptic nightmare to become tomorrow's history-bending reality. Reservations are required. RSVP at [email protected] or call 202-662-7523. The author graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and in 1971…
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Journalists go for laughs at Comedia dell Media, 7 pm April 1; $12
Forget Pulitzer, Polk and Peabody. This year’s most highly-sought media award will be bestowed Commedia dell Media at the National Press Club at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1. Twelve competitors are lined up to vie for the title of D.C.’s Funniest Journalist at the third annual charity extravaganza. Cost is $12 until Friday, March 11, when the price will go up to $15 online and $20 at the door. Tickets are available online at www.press.org/comedy. Club members receive a $2 discount on all tickets and can receive the discount code by emailing Joshua Funk at [email protected]. Currently sharpening their…
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Health care advocate to unveil mental illness education program noon, March 10
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare CEO Linda Rosenberg will discuss the emergence of Mental Health First Aid, a new public-education program that teaches people how to help someone in crisis who is developing signs of mental illness or substance abuse at a Newsmaker at noon Thursday, March 10. Rosenberg will demonstrate how the program uses role playing and simulations to show participants how to assess a mental health crisis, select interventions and provide initial help until professional support is engaged. Brought to the United States from Australia in 2008, the program…
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Comic Harry Shearer addresses media mythmaking, March 14
Harry Shearer, famed voice of The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live cast member, radio host of Le Show, and star of the film This is Spinal Tap, will accuse the national press of perpetuating media myths in major news coverage at a National Press Club luncheon on March 14. Shearer says he hopes to “enhance the feeling of shame among practitioners” in the press, whom he says have a “blindness to accuracy.” He will argue that the nation’s top editors and producers are “notoriously herd-oriented," cling to first-draft versions of news stories, and are reluctant to adjust news narratives when new…
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Rep. Conyers to discuss guns, health care, workers' rights 10 am, March 14
Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will address congressional inaction on guns and also discuss health care, Afghanistan, jobs, workers’ rights and what he views as the U.S. Supreme Court’s threat to voting rights, at a Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Monday, March 14. -- Ron Baygents, [email protected]
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Book Rap: Investigative journo to discuss 8 years in Afghanistan/Pakistan
Kim Barker will discuss her new book, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, at the National Press Club Book Rap on March 24, 6:30 p.m., in the Bloomberg Room. Barker was an unlikely foreign correspondent—she did not own a passport, only spoke English, and knew little about Osama bin Laden or Islam. In the wake of 9/11, her bosses at the Chicago Tribune were looking to put reporters on the ground in the Middle East and Barker decided she was up for the challenge. She was later named the South Asia bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. The Taliban Shuffle is her…
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Meet and Eat: Wine dinner featuring Post food writer Joe Yonan, March 29
Save the date: Washington Post food writer Joe Yonan will host a wine dinner Tuesday, March 29 featuring recipes from his forthcoming cookbook, "Serve Yourself." Yonan is known for his Cooking for One column so we'll have several tables set aside for singles to meet and eat. Don't worry: If you meet someone special, you can always double the recipe! The menu is in the works and will be available soon. To reserve, call (202) 662-7638.
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