Spotted: Late Sunday afternoon, The Daily Beast‘s Andrew Sullivan could be seen lounging in shorts al fresco at Napoleon Café in Adams Morgan. Dining with two men.Well-behaved dogs lying at their feet. Sullivan appeared to be enjoying his brunch of waffles and fruit.

Over the weekend, The Native Makers, the rock band featuring Carl Hulse on the drums, rocked Capitol Hill in an event labeled Rock and Roll Apocalypse. Hulse, the NYT Deputy Bureau Chief, ripped through a series of cover songs at the 18th Amendment on Capitol Hill. The playlist leaned heavily on the Rolling Stones and other classic rock favorites. In a bizarre stage setup, the band was forced to play directly beneath a giant TV playing a “Rocky” movie marathon. The howls of Grateful Dead cover songs provided a very unique soundtrack to Rocky Balboa’s defeat of Clubber Lang.

Jamming in the crowd were WSJ’s Neil King with his wife, Shalaigh Murray , who is now communications director for VPOTUS. Also spotted: HuffPost’s Arthur Delaney, WaPo’s Mike DeBonis and Susan G. Komen’s Kiki Ryan with Tim Burger. Quinn Gillespie & Associates was well repped with both John Feehery and Jim Manley in attendance in a marked sign of bipartisanship.

Spotted this morning: Ex-CNN host Eliot Spitzer saying hello to Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick at Peregrine Espresso on Capitol Hill. They were both guests on Bill Press‘s “Full Court Press” radio show that airs on Current TV and met up after their hit.

Spitzer and Lithwick passed each other as she was on her way and he was on his way into the show. Lithwick emaled the show to have Spitzer meet her at the café after his hit. He did so, but had to leave early for a breakfast meeting.

Unfortunately for actor George Clooney, he was arrested today while protesting in front of the Sudan embassy in Washington. But the good news is the ABC 7 cameras captured a very enthusiastic Christina Wilkie as she walked with Clooney before the arrest.

The HuffPost reporter described the scene to FBDC in an email:

It was a zoo, with about 50 reporters all angling (and elbowing) for the same shot. We spoke to Clooney on the way over to the protest, though, so we already had a good interview in pocket when we got there.

HuffPost videographer Sara Kenigsberg was in the middle of the action, while I sneaked onto the wall of the embassy of Mali so I could catch the dialogue between Clooney and the cops, which was friendly but nothing newsworthy.

Wilkie told us that she didn’t see her cameo on ABC 7 today.

WaPo op-ed columnist and political commentator E.J. Dionne was spotted out to lunch this afternoon at Pesce (a restaurant after our own hearts) off Dupont Circle. He was dining with a blonde woman. His meal consisted of ice water and Caesar’s Salad.

As loquacious as ever, Dionne was heard talking about a column he wrote on Kennedy in 1998. The woman listened attentively and didn’t appear bored by the political chatter.

Here he is above at the table.

Update: We’ve corrected the above to reflect that Dionne wrote his column on Kennedy in 1998 not 1968. He wrote into FishbowlDC: “Greetings. E. J. Dionne here.A friend sent me this and I just wanted the record to be clear: I wasn’t old enough to write a column on Robert Kennedy’s death! I was talking about a column I wrote in 1998 on the 30th Anniversary of the death of my dad, who also died in 1968. Glad you have a source at Pesce, a lovely place.” Indeed, E.J., we have our fishy spies at all the best spots around town.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has jumped back into her signature look: The pantsuit. Here she is looking eager and kind of Callista Gingrich-ish in this monochrome outfit on her way to the Senate building.

Photos via Colin Drummond with Celebrity Q&A.

The Washington Examiner gives such a detailed account of what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ate at Charlie Palmer’s the other night that you’d think they sifted through their stool with a microscope. But the information missing from their post is about the only part of a possible story that could’ve been interesting.

They knew everything they ordered down to the wine and potato puree, but there wasn’t one word about with whom they were eating, just “a group”. Who in DC, Hollywood for the ugly, rated high enough to dine with the king and queen of Washington for the beautiful?

In the words of Twitter – #FAIL.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), known for his cantankerous ways and for not speaking to media unless it’s his idea, was overheard at the Delta Crown lounge at Reagan National Airport today talking on his cellphone about an incident he said occurred three weeks ago while at an Episcopal church auction. Please note, a church auction.

Our source, a Democratic operative who heard the whole thing, said he was “very loud”. Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that after buying all their “crap” (his word) a woman approached him and praised first lady Michelle Obama.  He told the woman that Michelle should practice what she preaches — “she lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.”

Hold the phone! Did the congressman just say Michelle Obama has a FAT ASS?

The operative said it sounded like he was on the phone with a staffer who was telling him that someone in the media would likely write about his comments (concerning something) to which he said it was heresy and just liberal media bias to print gossip.  But “he stands by his remarks.”

At this juncture we’d like to point out that Sensenbrenner, who typically celebrates his birthdays by eating Cheetos and shrimp, has no business discussing fat asses while having quite the big butt himself.  And we realize that our picture is only head shot, but if this is what his noggin looks like, just imagine his backside. A note to the Congressman: “Let’s Move” could do you a WORLD of good. And lay off the Cheetos!

We reached out to Amanda Infield in Sensenbrenner’s Washington press office by both email and phone. When and if she responds, we’ll provide her quotes.

UPDATE: Sensenbrenner’s spokeswoman responds. Read here.

Read the email I sent to Amanda after the jump…

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We hit the jackpot in the sightings department. Monday night Slate‘s Dave Weigel and WaPo‘s Ezra Klein were spotted together at The Passenger bar near McPherson Square.

They were with a group of friends, roughly five guys, four girls. Klein wore a dark suit and chatted up two of the females. A wine-sipping Weigel wore a light colored button-up underneath a black sweater vest.

Shortly after we showed up on the scene, Klein left. Weigel and the rest of the Boybander brood hung out near the bar and one of his lady friends committed a party foul: She knocked a drink to the ground, shattering glass everywhere. Weigel quickly walked away, sipping his wine until the mess was cleared.

We spotted Bill Kristol, founder and Editor of The Weekly Standard, entering Reagan National Airport around 10:20 a.m Monday. He was wearing a dark blue suit with a lighter blue button-up shirt.

He was alone and wheeling one medium-sized piece of luggage. The blank expression on his face as well as his casual stroll indicated he was neither in a rush nor late for his flight.

We did our best to snap a photograph of Kristol to prove we really did see him. But, as fate would have it, he hopped on one of those conveyor belts that sends you speeding across the airport’s long halls, even if you are only walking at a leisurely pace. We were unable to catch up and the chase left us breathless near passenger check in.

– EDDIE SCARRY