Ted hangs with master bugler, bourbon
Inaugural balls! We all wish to participate in them without paying. Last night, City Paper's Ted Scheinman and I entered the $350-per-head Kentucky Bluegrass Ball with naught but a press pass and a dream, and emerged with tummies full of bison burgers, commemorative bottles of Maker's Mark tucked beneath our [...]

D.C.'s most successful hotel developer (not pictured)
"I want to be in the City Paper!" announced the tuxedoed man. He, several other tuxedoed men, accompanied by several gowned women, were enjoying cocktails at the Marriott Wardman hotel on the occasion of the 2009 Kentucky Bluegrass Ball. "I am D.C.'s most successful hotel developer," he explained.
"Do you [...]