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05/22/2012

Condom Prank At the Obama Girls' School, Sidwell Friends

Some clever writer in the Sidwell Friends community -- my guess a senior or seniors -- pulled off a very funny prank today, sending a fake email to the upper school parents mailing list saying that sex on campus was a problem and soon condoms would be available, well, everywhere. We have the scoop here: Condom Prank at Sidwell Friends School.

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Congratulations To My Colleagues ... @washingtonian

It was a big night for The Washingtonian at the City and Regional Magazine Awards in Las Vegas. The publication won some very big awards. Here's the news sent to us in an early morning email from editor Garrett Graff:

I wanted to share some very, very good news: Tonight at the CRMAAwards, Washingtonian won the 2012 profile writing category for lastyear's Tom Bartlett profile of Gene Weingarten. That's always thetightest category of the CRMA writing awards and the judges calledBartlett's piece the "craft at its highest level."

...minutes later we did it one better: We won the overall "Excellence in Writing" category forour March 2011 issue, the highest writing award offered by CRMA, beatingout Texas Monthly, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. That MarchHome Improvement issue, as you might recall had features by Luke Mullins (AndyNajar), Shane Harris (Bloomberg's Death Star), Marisa Kashino (The Man Who VettedSarah Palin), and Emily Leaman (What’s Killing the Elephants?), aswell as a What I've Learned by Bill O'Sullivan and a piece by Adam Goodheart.

Bravo to my talented colleagues. It's a delight to work among them every day. Look out for the June issue when it hits newsstands on Thursday. It's a winner, too.

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