On December 12, 2013, Georgetown Jingle will host a book signing with renowned designer Alexa
Hampton as she introduces her second book, Decorating in Detail. Hampton, who is the owner and designer for the firm Mark Hampton LLC, is a perennial member of Architectural Digest’s AD100, House Beautiful’s Top Designer list and a member of Elle Decor’s A-list. She is also one of the guest designers for the 8th Annual Georgetown Jingle, a holiday extravaganza hosted each year by Four Seasons Hotel and the design community to raise funds for Medstar Georgetown University Hospital’s pediatric oncology programs.
Hampton is the featured designer for this year’s event, decorating the prominent mantle in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel. Working with an assortment of seasonal décor including floral, antiques and wood workings, she will design a masterpiece vignette that will retail for $30,800—all of which will be donated to Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center to benefit pediatric patients. Hampton’s mantle and 17 Holiday Trees decorated by other designers will be on display and available for purchase at Four Seasons Hotel beginning December 4.
At Alexa Hampton’s Book Signing, guests will have the opportunity to meet the design icon and receive a personalized copy of her new book, Decorating in Detail. Coffee, tea and decadent holiday sweets will be provided by Four Seasons Hotel. Tickets to the Book Signing are $65, with a portion of each ticket benefiting Georgetown Jingle.
To purchase tickets, RSVP to Shazalynn@scwinteriors.net by Tuesday, December 10.
Thursday, December 12
Four Seasons Hotel
George Washington Room
10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Called “the ultimate ‘you go, girl’” community by New York Times best-selling author, Marianne Williamson, Women on Fire is proud to announce the Washington, D.C. launch of the new book, Women on Fire: 21 Inspiring Women Share Their Life Secrets (and Save You Years of Struggle!) on Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 at The Dunes in Columbia Heights (1402 Meridian Place, NW, Washington, DC 20010).
The post-holiday book release party and celebration will include readings by DC area authors from the book containing 21 unique voices, each one belonging to a courageous woman who chose to share her story of heartache, loss, and discovery in the hopes of saving you years of struggle. Insights in the chapters include how to:
Conquer the grief left behind after the death of a loved one;
Go from stay-at-home Mom to building a blockbuster business;
Conquer an eating disorder and take charge of your life;
Take the road to recovery from drug and alcohol abuse;
And many more insights from women just like you who battled their way through obstacles to find a life of freedom, compassion and joy on the other side!
WHAT: Washington, DC Post-Holiday Book Release Party for Women on Fire:
21 Inspiring Women Share Their Life Secrets (and Save You Years of Struggle!)
WHO: DC Area Authors from the 2nd Version of the Women on Fire book series.
Women on Fire is one of the fastest growing organizations of powerful women in the country.
Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Books will be available for purchase at the event, signed by the authors.
Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott in Conversation With Kate Reading
4801 Bethesda Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814, 301-986-1761h
On Thursday, February 27, Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas discuss their New York Times bestselling book, The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business and Our Lives, in a talk that coincides with the book’s paperback release. With billions of people coming online in the next decade, the book tackles some of the most interesting questions about our future: how will technology change privacy and security, war and intervention, diplomacy, revolution and terrorism? How will technology improve our lives? What new disruptions can we expect?
Billions of people are coming online in the next decade. Their physical lives, human rights, and civic relationships will be forever altered. Technology is reshaping human society in ways we never imagined, and the story for the future is one of promise and innovation.
In the paperback release of the New York Timesbestseller The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Business and Our Lives, Eric Schmidt, theExecutive Chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, tackle some of the most interesting questions about our future: how will technology change privacy and security, war and intervention, diplomacy, revolution and terrorism? How will technology improve our lives? What new disruptions can we expect?
On the heels of months of news stories about online privacy and security, The New Digital Age is a timely and forward-thinking account of where our world is headed and what this means for people, states and businesses.
In conversation with Alec Ross, one of America’s leading experts on innovation, a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs, and former Senior Advisor for Innovation to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Admission:
1 ticket + 1 book: $18
2 tickets + 1 book: $28
How to Purchase:
Online or by phone (877.987.6487 with a $1.50 fee per ticket). Additional fees apply.
Seating:
General Admission
Doors Open:
6:00 pm
Then, on Wednesday, April 2, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shares stories on the power of creativity and how to harness it in Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of a Creative Mind. Reflecting on his path to Google, Twitter and beyond, Biz (who also can add GQ’s “Nerd of the Year” and one of TIME magazine’s “Most Influential People” to his résumé) also provides his insights on ambition, failure, corporate culture, and the value of vulnerability. Most recently, Biz is founder and CEO of his newest venture, Jelly.
In Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of a Creative Mind, he shares fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories on the power of creativity and how to harness it. Biz’s early life and unique resume embody the mindset of today’s top innovators. He knows better than anyone that:
- Opportunity can be manufactured
- Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking
- Creativity never runs out
- Asking questions is free
- Empathy is core to personal and global success
Admission:
1 ticket: $20
1 ticket + 1 book: $30
2 tickets + 1 book: $40
How to Purchase:
Online or by phone (877.987.6487 with a $1.50 fee per ticket). Additional fees apply.
Seating:
General Admission
Seinfeld writer Peter Mehlman’s will launch his debut novel at Kramer Books & Afterwords in D.C. on September 23, 6:30 pm in K Street Magazine. Known for most memorableSeinfeld-isms like “Yada Yada”, “sponge-worthy” and “double-dipping”, he is a graduate of the University of Maryland and wrote for theWashington Post before his engagement on Seinfeld throughout which he continued to write for top publications, including New York TimesMagazine, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Esquire as well as contributing to NPR’s “Day to Day” and “All Things Considered”.
It Won’t Always Be This Great is a literary debut that perfectly captures Peter’s satirical genius in a uniquely conceived crime story, set in East Coast suburbia, that offers timely social commentary about religion, marriage, and the politics of life. Distinguished advance praise includes:
“Anyone who writes for television gets frustrated that they can’t write like Peter Mehlman. Now he’s going to make novelists mad too. Mehlman’s writing style is completely unique, and creates an intimate bond between the narrator and the reader. You finish the book feeling as though you’ve made a new friend.” ––Academy award winning writer Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network)
“Peter Mehlman wrote a brilliantly funny, effortlessly insightful and unexpectedly moving book.” ––Academy award winning writer/directorSteven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich, Traffic)
“Peter has an uncanny knack for pin-pointing the absurdities of our petty bourgeoisie. Funny and astute and disarmingly humane.” ―Madeleine Brand, American broadcast journalist and radio personality
For more on Peter Mehlman, please visit: www.pmehlman.com.
Tuesday, September 23 at 7:00 pm
In Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, the co-founder of PayPal draws on his experience investing in hundreds of start-ups and shares what he has learned about how to build companies that create new things.
with Politics & Prose
David Sedaris has leveraged his sardonic wit and incisive social critiques to become one of America’s preeminent humor writers. Beginning with his wildly popular “Santaland Diaries,” the great skill with which Sedaris slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition. He visits his D.C. “home away from home,” the Music Center at Strathmore, on Friday, October 17, 2014 at 8 p.m. Says the San Francisco Chronicle: “Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.” For more information or to purchase tickets, call (301) 581-5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.
In addition to “Barrel Fever,” Sedaris is the author of “Holidays on Ice,” as well as collections of personal essays, “Naked,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” and his most recent book, “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls,” each of which became an immediate bestseller. The audio version of “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls” was a 56th Annual Grammy nominee for Best Spoken Word Album. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of fables entitled “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary.”
Sedaris’s pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.” There are a total of seven million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 25 languages.
He and his sister Amy Sedaris have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include “Stump the Host,” “Stitches,” “One Woman Shoe,” which received an Obie Award, “Incident at Cobbler’s Knob,” and “The Book of Liz,” which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service.
David Sedaris’s original radio pieces can often be heard on This American Life. David Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His most recent audio recording of new stories (recorded live) is “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure.”
A feature film adaptation of his story “C.O.G.” was released after a premier at the Sundance Film Festival (2013).
Life has been an endless series of adventures for Neil Patrick Harris. He has enthralled fans for nearly three decades in more than 100 wildly varied roles, ranging from the iconic Doogie Howser, M.D., and Barney Stinson to Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible and his recent, Tony Award-winning turn as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.Never one to limit himself, Harris is also a two-time Emmy host, four-time Tony host, an accomplished amateur magician, and a licensed taxidermist (one of those is not true). Exhausted yet? Neil’s not!
In addition to his busy work life, Neil is also raising very energetic twin three-year-olds with his husband, David Burtka. But how did an aspiring child actor from a tiny mountain town in New Mexico turn into an award-winning, jet-setting, A-list performer who is also the most prominent example of gay family life in America? By chance or by choice? Not only will NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Crown Archetype; On Sale October 14, 2014) tell readers the whole story, Neil invites them to step into his shoes and roll the dice for him at decisive turning points throughout his life. In this affectionate homage to the Choose Your Own Adventure books he loved as a kid, he offers dozens of paths to choose from, some of which lead to the NPH we know and love, and others that end in the type of tragic demise that will be very familiar to fans of the original series. Neil Patrick Harris reinvents the celebrity memoir with an autobiography that puts YOU in charge of his life.
WHO: Neil Patrick Harris
WHAT: Book signing
WHEN: 7:30 PM
WHERE: Sixth & I
600 I Street Northwest
