Events

Politico Publisher Robert Allbritton and his wife, Elena, are opening up their expansive home for Sunday brunch the morning after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It’s their third year hosting the exclusive event that is not easy to get into.

This year’s notable guests: Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour; fashion designer Tory Burch; NBC’s Savannah Guthrie; actress Goldie Hawn; White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett; CNN’s Piers Morgan; CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell; RNC Chairman Reince Priebus; ABC’s Diane Sawyer; Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; and Fox News’s Chris Wallace.

Note: Hawn is the guest of CNN’s Piers Morgan at the dinner.

WHAT: NPR is hosting ‘Friday Night Spin’, an invitation-only party on the eve of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

The tab for the evening’s festivities is being picked up by NPR Trustees John Herrmann, Jr. and John McGinn, as well as in-kind donations. In-kind donors include: Gibson Guitar Showroom, Georgetown Cupcake, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Smart Water, Robert Foley Vinyards and Beam Global.

WHEN: Friday, April 27, 2012
8pm – 11pm

WHERE: Gibson Guitar Showroom

WHO: Hosted by NPR White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, welcome from NPR President & CEO Gary Knell, music by guest DJ Solange Knowles.

NPR’s WHDC guests also attending party include:
Mary J. Blige (Grammy Award-winning musician)
Ginnifer Goodwin (Actress)
Colin Hanks (Actor)
Chris Hughes (Co-founder of Facebook; publisher and editor-in-chief, The New Republic)
Katherine Stockett (Novelist, author of The Help)

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Consider this an unusual date – real news versus fake. BuzzFeed and Comedy Central’s Indecision will present “UnSuper Tuesday,” a Twitter-centric live-streamed special on Ustream tomorrow, Tuesday, April 24 from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. EDT.

BuzzFeed’s Editor-in-Chief, Ben Smith, will host along with editorial producer of Comedy Central’s Indecision, Mary Phillips-Sandy.  The “UnSuper Tuesday” team will offer commentary in the run-up to Mitt Romney‘s general election launch as the Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island primary results come in.

BuzzFeed political reporter and speed retweeter Zeke Miller will also be on-hand to monitor the “social conversation” on Twitter and “relay pertinent information from campaign and top GOP sources.”

There will also be insights from BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray on the political season’s most viral moments. Comedy Central’s Indecision bloggers Gonzalo Cordova and Jess Dweck will weigh in on the “crushing dullness” of Romney.

You win some, you lose some.

HuffPost-AOL‘s Arianna Huffington is setting off for the United States hotspot of Mayfield, Ohio on April 25 for a CBC Magazine Entrepreneur Summit. “Learn how to work with social media, find the capital to grow your biz, and polish your negotiation techniques,” a site called “Cool Cleveland” writes. Huffington’s talk is called “A Female Entrepreneur’s Success Story.”

Fun Facts about Mayfield:

• It’s a village in Cuyahoga County.

• Population: 3,460

• Progressive Auto Insurance in HQ’d here.

• They can probably use Arianna’s advice. Males have a median income of $52,361 versus $34,152 for females.

Writer and scholar Lesley Lee Francis, granddaughter of Robert Frost, will discuss the life and poems of her grandfather tonight at Montgomery College. The gathering is part of a “Writers Coffee House” that will take place in the Student Services Building from 7p.m. to 9 p.m. Participants are welcome to bring their favorite Frost poems. Refreshments will be served.

We now have the details for the Jeopardy “Power Players” edition that is coming to D.C. It tapes this weekend and starts Saturday morning. The first round will see MSNBC’s Chris Matthews battle Lizzie O’Leary from CNN and former POTUS Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs. Their game will tape at 10am ET. After that, Fox News’ Dana Perino will battle CNBC’s David Faber and basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Because when we think Washington D.C. power players, we think Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. After that, BBC’s Katty Kay faces down Fox’s Chris Wallace and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Again, Oprah’s doctor isn’t the first person that pops to mind when we think D.C. Power Players but he can talk poop with the best of ‘em. Following that meeting of the minds, CNN’s Anderson Cooper meets MSNBC’s Kelly O’Donnell and NYT columnist and all-around big-brain Thomas L. Friedman. The final matchup tapes at 6:35pm ET and features MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, comedian Lewis Black and Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page.

Just in time for her upcoming appearance in Washington, The Guardian‘s Ana Marie Cox has a new tattoo on her arm. She described it “brand new” and “not subtle” and something “that took a long time to do.” After Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman asked if it was on her lower back, she joked that it was Calvin peeing on the Chinese word for strength – with a rainbow. Then she posted a picture of what is presumably her arm on her space in her Posterous account. Guess she’s feeling patriotic?

On May 1 Cox, who left D.C. last summer, will appear on a panel for an event called “An Evening With the Guardian.” The panel will convene for cocktails at the Longview Gallery in northwest D.C. and will include The Raben Group’s Jamal Simmons, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Josh Trevino, BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone‘s Michael Hastings, The Atlantic‘s Molly Ball and The Guardian‘s Gary Younge.

The panel will discuss “Post-Truth Politics” and the Media’s Role. The hosts are Janine Gibson, Editor-in-Chief of Guardian US and Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media.

Post event there will be drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

See the invitation…

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Partnering with Apollo Group, NJ is launching its “Next America” project, a series of events “exploring the dramatic effects of the demographic revolution that is remaking the face of America.”

The first event on April 19 will feature an interview with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) followed by panel discussions related to the diversification of the U.S and how it will affect public policy.

Confirmed speakers include William H. Frey of the Brookings Institution, Paul Taylor of the Pew Hispanic Center and Esther Aguilera of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Moderating the panels are NJ‘s Major Garrett, Univision anchor Enrique Acevedo and NPR’s Michele Norris.

The Next America launch event will be held at the Newseum’s Knight Broadcast Studio on Thursday from 8p.m. to 11 a.m.

RSVP with Rachel Alben at ralben@nationaljournal.com.

Attention campaign reporters who aren’t on the road: Former GOP presidential hopeful Gov. Jon Huntsman is scheduled to speak at American University next Wednesday, April 18. We’re told these types of events usually include a Q & A session. The event comes just months after the Occupy AU club drove Gov. Jan Brewer out of an event on campus and disrupted a speech by another former GOP presidential hopeful, Gov. Rick Perry.

Huntsman’s speaking engagement begins at 8 p.m. in the University Club of the Mary Graydon Center.

Students at Washington University in St. Louis will soon have the opportunity to listen to NBC Political Director Chuck Todd discuss the 2012 elections.

On April 16 he will visit the campus and speak to the students in the chapel. The university will pay Todd for his appearance. Washington University is not Todd’s alma mater. He attended George Washington University. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University.

Correction: Todd did not graduate from GWU as we reported earlier. He dropped out. We’ve changed the above to reflect the correction. He attended GWU from 1990 to 1994.

Update: Todd will donate any money he receives to charity.