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Get out your green: Club's St. Patrick's Day buffet, celebration coming up
The National Press Club's annual St. Patrick's Day celebration -- always a gala event -- is around the corner. Featuring a sumptuous buffet plus Irish music by popular guitarist Matt Palombo, the event is slated for Tuesday, March 17, in the Reliable Source restaurant. The food comes out starting at 5:30 p.m., with the music at 6:30 p.m. The price is $30 for Club members and $35 for nonmember guests, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are encouraged because the event usually sells out. To reserve, call 202-662-7443 or email [email protected]. A special menu and special drinks are planned. Here's…
Type: News
Legal Challenges to Elections
Panelists spoke about potential legal challenges on and after Election Day. They discussed lessons learned after the 2000 election, changes in electoral procedures, and the Help America Vote Act. Following their remarks, panelists responded to questions from audience members.
Type: Media
Deadline today for application to join Headliners Team
Headliners is seeking members to fill five recently opened slots on the team. The Headliners Team, the only National Press Club committee whose members are appointed by the Club president, books and organizes Headliner luncheons, Newsmakers and Book Raps at the Club. Recent speakers have included Carlyle Group chairman David Rubinstein, U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert and actor/activist Jane Fonda. The team meets once a month, but team members work throughout the year to recruit top…
Type: News
Members get discount to screening of 'The Hoy Boys' at Independent Film Festival, March 6
National Press Club members can receive discount tickets to a screening of "The Hoy Boys," a film documenting working class twin brothers rose to become noted White House news photographers, at the D.C. Independent Film Festival Friday, March 6, at 5:45 p.m. at the Carnegie Institute for Science. Tickets for the screening, which will be preceded by a cocktail reception at 5 p.m., are $10 for Club members. Purchase them online here. To receive the discount, use the promo code HOYPRESS. The film tells the story of Tom and Frank Hoy, who hustled up copy boy jobs in 1953 and became White House…
Type: News
Club’s indie authors to hear how to turn a manuscript into a book, March 12
Katherine Pickett, owner of POP Editorial Services, will be guest speaker at the next meeting of the independent authors group of the National Press Club Thursday, March 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the McClendon Room. Authors who have published via the independent route (sometimes called self-publishing) are invited to attend. Contact Ed Barks at [email protected] for your invitation. The group also extends a special invitation to Club members who may be in the process of writing a book and want to learn more about the benefits of indie authorship. Pickett's topic will be "How to turn…
Type: News
Coronavirus and the Uyghur Crisis
Type: Event
Freedom Forum 2020 hosted by Advocates of Silenced Turkey (CANCELLED)
Freedom Forum 2020 hosted by Advocates of Silenced Turkey is a unique convention for human rights activists, intellectuals, and policy makers focused on human rights violations in Turkey. The conference will be held on Tuesday, March 24, 8AM-5PM at @PressClubDC featuring Enes Kanter as the Host Committee Chair. Confirmed speakers include Rabia Chaudry, NYT Bestselling Author; Katrina Lantos Swett, President of Lantos Foundation for Human Rights; and David Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. …
Type: Event
National Human Rights Network
Media Advisory Deteriorating Human Rights Violations in Rwanda: Mysterious Death of the Rwandan Gospel Music Singer, Kizito Mihigo in Police Detention. In the 26 years since the end of the genocide that claimed the lives of about 800,000 people, Rwanda has made a remarkable social and economic recovery that has attracted many investors to an extent that there has been even a proposal for the country to host the 26th Commonwealth Summit. But it should also be noted that this transformation accompanied by economic boom is also shadowed by an increasingly grim outlook on political space,…
Type: Event
Democratic Election Campaign Issues
Mr. Soros talked about his interest in the political process, campaign fundraising, his personal support for the Kerry campaign, and the concerns of the electorate. He also talked about the tone of political discourse and military operations overseas. Following his remarks he answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Philanthropist David Rubenstein's advice: Read books, help other people
National Press Club President Michael Freedman (left) presents philanthropist David P Rubenstein with the NPC coffee mug following his interview and Q&A with Rubenstein at a Club event Feb. 24. Photo: Marshall H. Cohen. David Rubenstein, financier, philanthropist and lover of history, suggested to members of a National Press Club audience Monday that they should read more books -- and in order to be happy doing things they feel passionately about, help other people. "I'm reasonably happy," said Rubenstein, who recently turned 70. "What I'm trying to do is race to the finish line." "…
Type: News