A-Rod was really impressed by Georgetown.

Emma Watson, Katy Perry, Patricia Arquette, Amy Poehler, Olivia Wilde, and others were spotted on the National Mall during the Women’s March, while Solange stopped into Sankofa.

Mayor Vince Gray, who was getting arrested for protesting way before any of these Occupy people, has made it his mission to turn October into a month-long push for D.C. autonomy. Part of that push involves calling in favors from some of his celeb pals, who will record public service announcements denouncing the District’s second-class status.

WHEREAS, Mayor Vince Gray thinks that television and film star Hayden Panettiere “has proven not only her acting chops, but also her commitment to the cause of full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia,” and…

A group of athletes, celebrities and local media personalities gathered at Kastles Stadium along the Southwest waterfront yesterday for the Celebrity Soccer Challenge to benefit the Mia Hamm Foundation.

D.C. may be known as Hollywood for ugly people, but for a little while last night, it was almost like we were just plain Hollywood. Granted, there was no actual red carpet at last night’s “red carpet” U.S. premiere — which was billed as a World Premiere despite Tuesday night’s London screening — of Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian at the National Air & Space Museum. But there was a crowd…

President Obama’s inauguration was a star-studded affair, with some of America’s most famous personalities and entertainers showing up at concerts, gala events or with prime seats to Tuesday’s swearing-in. One star, though, tried to translate her fame into better seating—with mixed results. New York Magazine relates the story of Sonja Sohn, who famously played Detective Shakima Gregg on HBO’s The Wire, but couldn’t manage to parlay her celebrity to get her any closer to…

The second Transformers movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is apparently filming in Washington right now, because people keep sending us celebrity gossip reports that actor Shia LaBeouf allegedly set off a smoke alarm inside a bathroom at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum over the weekend when he tried to sneak a cigarette inside the building. The story seems to have come entirely from the National Enquirer, however, so we should probably take…

>> Lieutenant Sean M. Egan of the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department has emailed out a citywide call for blood donations in the wake of four D.C. firefighters having been seriously burned yesterday at a rowhouse fire at 621 4th St. NE. You can find a blood donation center here. >> George Clooney is in D.C., and still hott. [GossipGirls] >> Police are investigating an arson at Western Presbyterian Church on Virginia…

MONDAY: French journalist Sylvain Cypel will speak about his book Walled, a look at relations between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the barriers — both cultural and physical — between the two groups. Politics and Prose, 7 p.m. D.C.-area Star Wars geeks will want to check out Olsson’s Arlington/Courthouse, where science-fiction author Karen Traviss will be talking about her new novel Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice. We love Han, Chewie and the gang as…