We definitely 'kept' it real at mb's recent DC Media & Film party at Left Bank. Our guest of honor was Kept author E. Euny Hong, a journalist-turned-novelist who, in addition to writing her book on four (!) continents, was recently awarded a Fulbright Young Journalists Award. A regular multimedia miracle, she gave us the perfect reason to come together, led by mb hostesses Lisa Gschwandnter and Rina Rapuano.

At Leftbank, August 15, 2006

Photos by Naomi Brookner

Kept author and guest-of-honor E. Euny Hong

mb hostess Lisa Gschwandnter and mb volunteer Nkemjike

NPR's David Rabin and New Voyage Communications producer Glenn Marcus

Screenwriter and producer Chad Sekerchak and Washington Businessman's Krishna Collie

Science News's Ben Harder and The Washington Post's Tod Plotkin

Association for Psychological Sciences's Eric Vargo, writer Lori Robertson and National Guard writer Lauren Bigge

AARP associate editor Monica Hesse, The Magazine Group associate editor Nick Kolakowski and The Magazine Group managing editor Sacha Cohen

Congressional Quarterly assistant managing editor Dan Parks and writer Monica Trucco

Writer Keith Collins and mb hostess and writer Rina Rapuano

CorpWatch correspondent David Phinney and novelist Stephen Sullivan

Lisa Gschwandnter