Photo by kimberlyfaye We’ve been entertaining ourselves this morning by reading through the surprising number of emails we received over the past several days letting us know about the epic failure that apparently was the New Year’s Eve party hosted by LateNightShots dudes Fritz Brogan and Reed Landry. It’s not at all surprising, mind you, that this particular party, formally dubbed “New Year’s Eve at the National Building Museum,” was a huge flop. Rather,…

Former Miss D.C. Kate Michael writes on her blog, K Street Kate, that she was told by soon-to-be reality TV star Katherine Kennedy (“herself!”) that filming started yesterday on Blonde Charity Mafia. The show, as you’ll recall, is styled after The Hills and follows the lives of young, blonde Washington socialites. It will eventually air on the Lifetime network, following Project Runway….

On the heels of the announcement that Lifetime picked up the Late Night Shots-inspired reality show that’s been in development since early this year, we now have the title. According to the Post’s Lisa de Moraes, they’re going to call it Blonde Charity Mafia. That’s the nickname three of the show’s main characters have given themselves, due to their reputation for throwing elaborate parties that raise money for charitable causes. So what do you think…

No, you’re not having a waking nightmare. It’s really happening. So says Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour in their Yeas and Nays column in the Examiner. We can now exclusively confirm that Lifetime has picked up the show and filming begins in September. The half-hour show is slated to air in November and has scored a crucial timeslot: Immediately following Lifetime’s popular reality show, “Project Runway” (which will switch from Bravo to the Lifetime network…

As commenter RJ noted on our earlier post about the Washingtonienne television show, it appears that the reality show we’ve been … anticipating? for months now is getting realer and realer all the time. The Examiner’s Yeas & Nays column announced earlier today that a cast has been set for the so-called ‘The Hills of D.C.’ The stars are “local socialites/hotties/20-somethings Katherine Kennedy, Krista Johnson and Sophie Pyle. Johnson’s younger sister, Alexa Johnson, may also…

The Washington City Paper’s Angela Valdez provides a two-pronged update today to the monstrosity that could be the Late Night Shots reality TV show we told you about earlier this month. In a piece over at Campus Progress, she interviews Havva Eisenbaum, the producer of the pilot, who says that they’ve already had “nibbles of interest from networks” who might end up picking it up once the pilot is completed. Considering how many reality TV…

Late Night Shots, the invite-only, Georgetown social scene site first made famous by why.i.hate.dc, Wonkette and later by an investigative report by the Washington City Paper, has apparently piqued the interest of reality television producers looking to do a show similar to The Hills based on the web site. The image above is currently showing up as a splash page when you log in to Late Night Shots, which takes you to this page…

Hey look, someone who writes for Gawker doesn’t know where to go out in D.C., and thinks that everyone who lives here works for the government and never changes out of their work clothes! How adorable.Yesterday, I was trying to get home from Miami, but the weather had other plans, and the plane I was on got diverted to Washington, D.C. To Dulles Airport, to be exact, which is way farther outside of the city…

MONDAY Murder, urban intrigue, and the promiscuous pen of Edgar Allan Poe are the ingredients of Daniel Stashower’s treatise on the evolution of the detective story, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder. Chapters, 445 11th Street, NW., 1pm. TUESDAY Head on over to the Baird Auditorium at the National Museum of Natural History to hear Andrea Mitchell discuss Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and…

This week we discussed a jailbreak, found ways to stop global warming locally, spied some naked PETA protestors, dumped the pump, and reviewed Middle Distance Runner’s new album. We checked out (and mocked) D.C. Late Night Shots, expressed some reservations with the Pentagon Memorial, celebrated Pride Week, reviewed Assasins, and checked out what some local D.C. personalities were reading. We interviewed Pandora founder Tim Westergren, unlocked the mystery of OpenTable at local resturants, debated…