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Celebrity chef Carla Hall cookbook dinner Tuesday, April 8 nearly sold out
Just a few tickets remain to dine with Carla Hall, co-host of ABC's "The Chew" and a former competitor on BRAVO’s “Top Chef”, at a wine and cookbook dinner Tuesday, April 8 at the Fourth Estate restaurant. The multi-course meal will feature dishes created from recipes in Hall's soon-to-be-published cookbook, "Carla's Comfort Foods: Favorite Dishes from Around the World" paired with wines. The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. Ticket price includes a copy of the cookbook. To reserve tickets for this event, please click here: A full menu is listed below. Hall is the owner of Carla Hall Petite Cookies…
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New members to learn about Club goodies at orientation sessions Tuesday
Are you a new member of National Press Club? Want to learn more about what the Club has to offer you? You can find out at a choice of two New Member Orientation sessions Tuesday, Feb. 11. To fit members' schedules, the Club's Membership Department is offering sessions at both breakfast and lunch. The breakfast orientation will begin at 8:30 a.m., the lunch session at noon. Both will be in the Reliable Source restaurant. Please RSVP with your choice of session to Recruitment Manager Allyson Cannon at [email protected] by Monday, Feb.10.
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Coming Monday to Kalb Report: NY Times columnist Tom Friedman
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman will join host Marvin Kalb Monday, (Feb. 10) to talk about the intersection of national security and personal freedom. With the fallout from Edward Snowden’s massive leaks about NSA surveillance reverberating around the world, the appearance of the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner comes at a critical moment. Kalb and Friedman will discuss “not just freedom of the press but all of our freedoms at a time when we must consider the dangers of global terrorism threatening our own cherished freedom,” Kalb said in announcing the show. The show will begin…
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Valentine's Day nears; Fourth Estate doubles your chance to catch, or send, Cupid’s Arrow
Valentine's Day is coming up next Friday, Feb. 14, and the National Press Club's Fourth Estate restaurant thinks it is too special a day to limit the celebration to a 24-hour period. Thus, to honor the occasion, the restaurant will offer a special fixe price menu on both Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15. Dinner will be served from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. both days. The menu, priced at $75 for a couple and $40 single, includes rack of lamb, beef, shrimp, crab-stuffed flounder and vegetarian chili rellenos. Desserts are a chocolate or raspberry heart pastry or (tongue in cheek) sour on sex lemon…
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Journalism Institute reaps nearly $7,000 in year-end fundraising appeal
Forty-three Club members and friends of the National Press Club Journalism Institute (NPCJI) donated nearly $7,000 to the institute (NPCJI) in its annual year-end fundraising appeal in 2013, the institute has announced. Donors were: Anonymous (three), Helen Bernstein, Don Black, Simeon & Carol Booker, Betti Brown, Ross Chomiak, Barbara Cochran, Claudette Cox, Robert Daley, Laura Faul, Karen Fawcett, Elliot Feldman, Jonah Gitlitz, Matt Gryta, Jane Simpson Hahn, Mark Hamrick, Marvin Kalb, Frank Kane, Kathy Kiely, Pamela Killian Fox. Gil Klein, Katherine Lewis, Craig Lewis, Arline Jolles…
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See the future: get demo of Google Glass at Communicators Breakfast Feb. 12
Back in the 1980s, the band Timbuk3 released the hit song "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." But if that one-hit wonder band were around today, its musicians likely would be singing about how their wearable computer, Google Glass, is helping them see what lies ahead. At the next Communicators Breakfast on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 8 a.m. in the Truman Lounge, National Press Club member Thomas Sanchez will demonstrate his new pair of Google Glass and discuss how the wearable computer, which was recently introduced by the giant technology firm, has the power to shape the future.…
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Special guest to join 'Books & Brunch' discussion of Seamus Heaney book Feb. 22
The National Press Club's Books and Brunch Group will meet in the Club's Fourth Estate restaurant at noon on Saturday, Feb. 22, to discuss the poet Seamus Heaney's "Human Chain," the Nobel Prize winner's last published work before his death last year. Joining the Group for the discussion will be Merrill Leffler -- poet, editor, teacher and publisher -- who has been a central figure on the metropolitan Washington, D.C. literary scene for more than 45 years. He has authored three books of poetry, including most recently "Mark the Music," and published numerous individual collections by a…
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Public sector communicators: learn first-hand success stories Feb. 21
The way Americans communicate is constantly changing, and if you’re a public sector communicator, you’re probably finding it a challenge to keep pace. To answer the challenge, you can get help from a panel of experts at a National Press Club event on Friday, Feb. 21, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the Club’s Conference Rooms. Communicators from the State Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration will describe how they took an imaginative approach to a communications challenge or crisis – and achieved successful a successful result. The…
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National Press Club Journalism Contest goes online
The National Press Club wants to see examples of the best journalism from 2013 in its annual Journalism Contest, and, for the first time, will allow contestants to send their entries in online. The contest will award prizes in several photo categories, in breaking news competition for print/online and for broadcast, and in many other categories. "The National Press Club is recognized as the world's leading professional organization for journalists, and the prestige of the annual awards is a reflection of the high standing with which the Club is held by peers," Club President Myron Belkind…
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