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Blues Alley Jazz Series featuring Dave Chappell & Friends (Virtual Event)
Blues Alley Jazz is pleased to announce the launch of its acclaimed “Monday Night Jazz” series, streaming live from the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Blues Alley Jazz is America’s oldest, continuously operating jazz supper club, located in our nation’s capital. For the past fifty-five years Blues Alley Jazz has been serving the finest in jazz entertainment and creole cuisine in America. With in-person gatherings prohibited due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blues Alley has partnered with the historic National Press Club to live stream performances to viewers around the world, as well as…
Type: Event
The Attorney General and Internal Security
John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General for the Bush Administration, talked about the role of the Attorney General and internal security at the Republican National Lawyers Association conference. He also responded to comments and questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Blues Alley Jazz Series featuring Christie Dashiell (Virtual Event)
Blues Alley Jazz is pleased to announce the launch of its acclaimed “Monday Night Jazz” series, streaming live from the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Blues Alley Jazz is America’s oldest, continuously operating jazz supper club, located in our nation’s capital. For the past fifty-five years Blues Alley Jazz has been serving the finest in jazz entertainment and creole cuisine in America. With in-person gatherings prohibited due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blues Alley has partnered with the historic National Press Club to live stream performances to viewers around the world, as well as…
Type: Event
National Press Club chef offers sweet potato recipe
Sweet potatoes don’t have to be excessively sweet or sentimental. This ‘tis the season for all things root vegetables and sweet potatoes. Just coming off a Thanksgiving candied sweet potato sugar rush, below is a variation on a theme that takes some of the sweetness out of baked yams. This baked dish has a tiny bit of heat at the end of every bite. The hardest part -- the trick, as it were -- is to find a can of Chipotles in Adobo sauce. Well-stocked supermarkets may have the cans, but you may have to check out the International/Hispanic line of products. If not in your supermarket, you may…
Type: News
Blues Alley Jazz launches virtual 'Monday Night Jazz at the NPC'
Blues Alley Jazz is launching its “Monday Night Jazz series at the National Press Club” tonight at 8 p.m. featuring mid-Atlantic recording artist Christie Dashiell performing from the Club's Fourth Estate Restaurant. Due to pandemic restrictions, an audience is not allowed. The five-week series plans to feature local, national and internationally renowned artists streaming live via virtual broadcast. A new artist is planned for each week with archival purchases available on-line thereafter. Single night advance sale purchases are $15, with $20 day-of-show, or a subscription series of five…
Type: News
Wilber plans to chat with Len Downie, Jr. about new memoir on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.
Del Wilber, a member of the National Press Club board, continues his virtual author chats with Len Downie, Jr., a former executive editor of the Washington Post who has just published a memoir detailing his time leading one of the nation's most-respected newspapers. The talk will be held over Zoom on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. To join, please email Del at [email protected]. He will add you to a list of participants and send you instructions closer to the talk. Downie, 78, has been getting non-stop praise for All about the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post. Kirkus…
Type: News
Books & Brunch will discuss 'The Shadow King' at Dec. 19 virtual meeting at noon
Books & Brunch will meet via Zoom at noon on Saturday, Dec. 19, to discuss The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste. This novel, short-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize, is set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, taking the reader back to the first conflict of WWII. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected]. Those people who RSVP should expect to receive the Zoom invitation at 9 a.m. Saturday. For those who wish to get a head start on their reading, the group will read Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin at the meeting…
Type: News
NPC Communicators Lunch and Learn how to select a PR agency on Thursday, Dec. 3 at noon
One element of the public relations/communications process that is often not given enough emphasis is how organizations go about finding and hiring agencies to support them, as well as how agencies “sell” their business to potential clients. During a Lunch and Learn session on Thursday, Dec. 3, at noon, Steve Drake (l) and Robert Udowitz, the founders of RFP Associates, plan to describe how the “request for proposal”, or RFP, is traditionally used in the agency-selection process. The National Press Club Communicators Team is hosting the online event, which will be conducted via Zoom and free…
Type: News
NPC Communicators Lunch and Learn: How to Select a PR Agency
One element of the public relations-communications process that is often not given enough emphasis is how organizations go about finding and hiring an agency to support them, as well as how agencies “sell” their business to potential clients. During this virtual program hosted by the NPC Communicators Team, Steve Drake and Robert Udowitz, the founders of RFP Associates, will describe how the “request for proposal” process is used to select an agency. This knowledge is based on the veteran communicators’ collective experience from both sides of the negotiating table during their careers at PR…
Type: Event
Online voting for Press Club 2020 election continues
Online voting continues today and ends tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. All members eligible to vote should have received an email from e-Ballot with a link taking them to the voting portal. If you’re eligible to vote and didn’t receive an email please contact Laura Coker at [email protected]. General information about the election can be found here.
Type: News