Kate Michael

Kate Michael, @kstreetkate, is a Writer/Model/On-Camera Host and Event Emcee. Notable as the Founder and current Editor-At-Large of K Street Magazine, Kate started the site while serving as Miss District of Columbia 2006 and competing in Miss America (2007). Currently, Kate works as a professional spokesperson and model, walking the runway for such industry icons as Valentino, Derek Lam, Naeem Kahn and Oscar de la Renta. Her media portfolio includes a spread in Elle magazine and features on Inside Edition and BBC World News’ “The Real Cities” series. You’ll catch her interviewing guests on DC’s NewChannel8′s Let’s Talk Live and showcasing products on BestBuy.com, as well as work appearing on NBC, Fox, Comcast and local print publications.

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Author/Experimenter Manny Howard celebrated for “breaking a lot of rules”

Posted on May 13, 2010 in Around Town, Eats, Green, Parties/Events, People

At a book signing Wednesday evening at Georgetown’s Hook restaurant, author Manny Howard takes his James Beard Foundation Award-winning New York Magazine cover story and explains how he turned it into a full – and experimental – novel for the locavore movement.

In My Empire of Dirt, Howard details how, for seven months, he maintained the first farm in Brooklyn in generations, complete with refuse, radishes and the all-important forbidden rooster. The simple goal? To live on his own land, while still having a life!

Video embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK4O9Q_ehzI