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Animal lovers and their canine counterparts came out in full force for Animal Fair magazine’s jeep yappy hour to benefit the Washington Animal Rescue League on September 15. Animal Fair is the first lifestyle magazine for animal lovers in support of fairness to animals.
women.Tall and always elegant Nini Ferguson and petite, always-beautifully-dressed Tandy Dickerson were a case in point. (“Wyatt helps with decisions on my wardrobe,”Tandy says of her husband.“He has a discerning eye that I trust.”) “WATER DIVIDES NATIONS AND WINE UNITES THEM” This is
wine and hospitality consultant Daniel Mahdavian’s (of D.M. and Company) happy motto, and it was wine which united him to his betrothed, wine authority Melanie Corcoran, granddaughter of the legendary lobbyist and FDR-confidante Tommy “the Cork” Corcoran. They celebrated their engagement at an “It’s nacho ordinary” Latin-themed party hosted by Elsie and Dr. Jim Sprague, and Melanie’s mother, Carole Anderson, with south-ofthe-border food, margaritas and wines (top quality, of course) for 80 local and international friends,
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ANIKO GAAL SCHOTT, HUDA AND SAMIA FAROUKI AND DIDI CUTLER
DAVID IGNATIUS AND WILLIAM HASELTINE
In conjunction with the Kennedy Center’s festival of china, Aniko Gaal Schott and William Haseltine hosted a reception to showcase jewelry designer Kai-Yin Lo’s collection, “The New China Chic” on October 4. Kai-Yin’s collections are known for her placement and use of rare and precious materials— unusual jades, ivories, sapphires and pearls—in contemporary settings. PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON
including Anthony and Chase Harrigan of IBG Partners LLC; Les and Mary Lou Zimmerman of First Capital Realty (who are big wine collectors), Jan Donovan; Salim and Himela Mohammed of Vancouver; Melanie’s father, Dr. David Corcoran, and his wife, Margaret; and Steve Maguire, the night life lounge guru, about to open his new place at Dupont Circle, the Science Club. THE NEWEST OLDEST NEWSPAPER Unlike all the just-born
publications recently popping up like—well, popcorn—on the local scene, is the historical Alexandria Times. John Arundel of the communications family, has just revived—200 years later—the newspaper that George Washington sat down with at five o’clock in the morning to read under his favorite fig tree. The Times’ re-launch was celebrated at a party at Crystal City’s McCormick and Schmidt’s
restaurant, where we learned that co-owner William McCormick had just been appointed U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and was about to leave for that country. AGED BUT NOT AGING One publication that is fresh and certainly even more relevant today than when it began is the recently revamped the Congressional Quarterly, which just celebrated its sixtieth birthday. Newsmakers and news gatherers flocked to Decatur House for CQ’s event, and some even made it around the corner to Olives for the instantaneous after-party. Host and CQ president and publisher Robert Merry has been attracting attention and controversy with his recent, incisive book.The title explains the hoop-la-la,“Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy and the Hazards of Global Ambition…” A week prior, power players, columnists and staffers joined the Washingtonian’s Philip and Ellie
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Merrill and editor Jack Limpert to celebrate the magazine “Washington Lives By.” Guests included Fred Malek, John McLaughlin, former Sen. Paul Laxalt and former GOP chairman Frank Fahrenkopf. POMP AND PAGEANTRY Carmen Petrowitz and William Feighan rep-
resented the United States recently at a colorful ceremony in Austria. The “white-tie-and-decorations” Investiture of the Order of St. Stanislas took place in the 12th century Plankenstein Castle, just outside Vienna, during an eventful weekend. The chivalric order was founded in 1765 by Poland’s last king in honor of the martyred saint, and continues today the charitable works for which it was begun. Afterward Carmen returned to the U.S. only to take off again for Buenos Aires. Send advance notice of an event you think Around Town should know about to aroundtown@washingtonlife.com.
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