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Best Photos of Oscar Night DC From Joseph Allen Images

Best Photos of Oscar Night DC From Joseph Allen Images

 

For more photos from the event, take a look at the amazing photography of Joseph Allen Images. I highly recommend his photography for weddings, and other events! He’s a great guy, and has a great eye!
- Miss A

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Have a Blast with G3Security Group’s Ladies Only Basic Gun Class

Have a Blast with G3Security Group’s Ladies Only Basic Gun Class

 
Gun ownership by ladies is on the rise. I don’t know about you girls, but I love skeet shooting and going to the shooting range. I’m actually a pretty good shot! I’ve shot skeet with shotguns, shot glocks, pistols, and even a Heckler & Koch MP5. I’m all about the Second Amendment. As Thomas Jefferson [...]

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Run-Away Acceleration: What To Do And What NOT To Do

Run-Away Acceleration: What To Do And What NOT To Do

Over the past two months, there have been numerous stories of run-away acceleration especially by Toyota vehicles, such as this one in the Washington Post today. However, the advice of “experts” on what to do has been conflicting – and sometimes NOT expert in my opinion. Here is some advice I recently received from someone in-the-know, [...]

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Andrea Rodgers on Washington Business Tonight

Andrea Rodgers on Washington Business Tonight

Click here to see my interview with WJLA/NewsChannel 8’s Rebecca Cooper for Washington Business Tonight. Rebecca got into the history and future of AskMissA.com. She also asked me about Betsy Rothstein’s inaccurate article on Media Bistro about Washington Life Magazine’s Young & the Guest List party being cancelled. I called out Betsy for cutting and pasting from [...]

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Scam Advisory Out from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

Scam Advisory Out from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

There is a scam e-mail making the rounds that is claiming to be from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).  At a periphery glance the e-mail looks official, from the grammatically correct wording to the info@ncua.gov e-mail address.  Upon closer inspection there are no official logos in the body of the e-mail and the “Sent [...]

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NBC Washington’s Coverage of Mirror, Mirror Upon the Wall

NBC Washington’s Coverage of Mirror, Mirror Upon the Wall

I want to thank everyone who came out to Hela Spa and Ted Gibson Salon to support the Washington Humane Society fundraising of Allison Brooks and me. I also want to thank Hela Spa and Ted Gibson Salon for hosting, and our sponsors Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Georgetown Cupcake, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, and my friends at [...]

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Open Letter to Betsy Rothstein at MediaBistro.com

Open Letter to Betsy Rothstein at MediaBistro.com

Work to Ride Kids (Photo by Joseph Allen Images)

Update: I spoke to Donya Blaze, Editor of Media Bistro, and they will post a statement about Work to Ride in the article online. Seems Betsy Rothstein received info from a reliable source and didn’t just cut & paste from LNS. She should have verified with Work to Ride [...]

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Nouveau Poor

Nouveau Poor

Today, Amanda Gordon wrote a piece on “cheap eats” for AskMissA.com’s NY Empress column, and reminded me about a new phrase an acquaintance of mine shared with me recently: Nouveau Poor. I think everyone is familiar with the Nouveau Riche, but do you know about the Nouveau Poor? My friends told me story about how he took a [...]

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Vogue Launches Vogue Stylist, An Interactive Fashion Genius!

Vogue Launches Vogue Stylist, An Interactive Fashion Genius!

One perk of being on the Vogue 100 list with amazing women such as Leslie M.M. Blume, Lisa Salzer, Dr. Carolyn Chang, Kate Roberts, and my friend Katie Rost is that Vogue keeps me in the loop on the amazing things they are doing.
Today, Vogue announced the launch of Vogue Stylist, an interactive fashion genius! Fusing the [...]

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Washingtonian’s “Being Beautiful Is Not For Wimps”

A few weeks ago, I told readers about the article that Cathy Alter wrote about me for the Washingtonian magazine’s February issue. I gave my take on the experience and noted that press coverage, much like beauty isn’t for wimps. Well, the article is finally up online, so here is the link for all my readers across [...]

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