About Guest List
Guest List is Washingtonian’s fantasy cast of who we’d like to invite over for dinner each month.
A monthly roundup of people we’d like to have over for drinks, food, and conversation—plus one person we definitely would not.
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Melanie Adams
The Minnesota transplant has been named the new head of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.
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Meg Goldthwaite
NPR’s marketing chief spearheaded planning to change Morning Edition’s 40-year-old theme music.
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Stephen Gutowski
A reporter for the conservative Washington Free Beacon, he’s led the pack in reporting on the NRA’s woes.
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Terri McCullough
As Nancy Pelosi’s new chief of staff, she becomes, ex officio, one of Capitol Hill’s most powerful unelected officials.
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Justin Johnson
He’s the driving force behind Moechella, a pop-up go-go event intended to protest gentrification in DC.
Disinvited!
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Unsuck DC Metro
Once a key chronicler of Metro’s troubles, the anonymous writer—exposed by WAMU as VOA staffer Matt Hilburn—has descended into conspiratorial paranoia.
Credits: Photo-illustration by John Ueland. Photograph of Adams by Brady Willette/Smithsonian. Photograph of Goldthwaite by Stephen Voss/NPR. Photograph of McCullough by Tom Williams/Getty. Photograph of Metro by Bonnie Jo Mount/Washington Post.
This article appears in the July 2019 issue of Washingtonian.