In the fall of 2006, The Washington Examiner launched the Yeas & Nays column to cover the world of people, power and politics. In those almost seven years, the print column has entertained hundreds of thousands on their daily Metro commutes. Now, with the print edition gone after Friday, Yeas & Nays will have a new home. The column is moving to our sister site, Red Alert Politics, and will resume covering politics and pop culture on July 1.

D.C. warms up with summer events

Alicia Cohn

June 13, 12:00 AM June 13, 06:35 PM

With the end of the column, here are some events we're missing but you shouldn't:

Capitol Hill guests next week include actors Dan Grimaldi ("The Sopranos") and Charlotte Rae ("Facts of Life") lobbying on Tuesday for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

Friday, Redskins receiver Josh Morgan is throwing a birthday "party with a purpose" at Arlington's Artisphere benefiting three charities. Early tickets are currently $45 at jmorganpartywpurpose.eventbrite.com.

Also at Artisphere, writer Robert Thurman (also known as Uma Thurman's dad) is headed to BuddhaFest on June 22. Tickets atbuddhafest.org.

Lincoln owners PRG Hospitality bring us another presidential restaurant with Teddy & The Bully Bar, opening June 24.

Screenings have already started, and expect to see the cast of "White House Down" promoting their D.C. disaster movie in the District ahead of its June 28 release date.

Emmy-winning voice actor Rob Paulsen (Pinky of "Pinky and the Brain") will speak at the National Press Club on Aug. 1. General admission tickets are $10 at press.org/events/paulsen.

And Alec Baldwin and wife, Hilaria, are expected to attend the Oct. 17 gala celebrating the opening of the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery's new "Yoga: The Art of Transformation" exhibition. The couple are co-chairing the event.

These are a few of our favorite Yeas

Nikki Schwab

June 13, 12:00 AM June 13, 06:55 PM

We surveyed the Yeas & Nays alumni association -- Politico's Patrick Gavin, Urban Daddy's Jeff Dufour, Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Kiki Ryan, the New York Post's Tara Palmeri, Clyde's Restaurant Group's Katy Adams and Washington City Paper's Jenny Rogers -- to give you, loyal readers, some of our favorite items that appeared in the newspaper:

» Back in April of 2007, Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour got President Carter to give his take on the low-rider debate. Low-rider, you ask? The city of Plains, Ga., Carter's hometown, was trying to ban low-riding pants. Carter plead ignorance on the issue, but the Plains City Council hoped to get the former POTUS on board. "His support would be very valuable," one member said.

» "Nancy, where are you?" screamed a headline on the Drudge Report after Yeas & Nays reported that Nancy Pelosi's face had clearly been airbrushed on the May/June 2010 cover of Capitol File Magazine, leaving the House speaker looking more like Katie Couric then herself.

» "We're not pedophiles" was Joe Jonas' response as Yeas & Nays caught the Jonas Brothers "sulking in the corner" of the Bloomberg/Vanity Fair party over White House Correspondents' Association Dinner weekend in 2010. The teen heartthrobs were angry that President Obama threatened them with "predator drones" if they went anywhere near Sasha and Malia.

» "Meet the Press" host David Gregory let the cat (errr rap?) out of the bag during an early GOP presidential debate in 2011 that he was a big fan of '90s hip-hop, showcasing his lyrical knowledge on Twitter. "A lot of suburban white kids like me were into that stuff," Gregory told us. Though he noted he was never into the "nasty stuff."

» Partisanship was out in full fury at last summer's annual DNC-RNC softball game as our Jenny Rogers captured taunts like "Oh, they're going after the Hispanic vote." (A reaction to the DNC's cheer of "Si, se puede.") Others included "at least we shower" and "you suck." RNC Chairman Reince Priebus admitted that the teams really get into it. "We take it pretty seriously," he said.

» And then there are the times when Yeas & Nays is the news. Our own Tara Palmeri asked a follow-up question to actor Sean Penn, who had told his detractors they could die "screaming of rectal cancer." Palmeri promptly got booted from the event and made national gossip news in the process.

The Newsbabes -- those pink-clad broads of broadcasting -- are back again this year with their annual breast cancer fundraising, this year raising money for the Howard University Cancer Center. The event, in its fifth year, will be taking place June 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hamilton in downtown D.C. Tickets cost $75. The host committee consists of WJLA's Rebecca Cooper, NBC4's Angie Goff, CNN's Brianna Keilar and more.

Beatles in the District

Alicia Cohn

June 12, 12:00 AM June 12, 04:40 PM

Abbey Road was briefly in front of the Capitol earlier this month. On June 6, Madame Tussauds Washington D.C. brought George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to briefly walk the sidewalk there to promote the museum's new Beatles exhibit, which opened Wednesday.

If you're wondering about the mix of wax and D.C.'s summer weather, have no fear: A spokesperson for Madame Tussauds assures us that although their figures are durable, "we would not leave them out in direct sunlight or intense heat for prolonged periods of time."

Hillary Clinton's first reality show pitch is "a go," according to Bravo executive Andy Cohen. The former secretary of state hit it out of the park with the "Project Pantsuit" idea she joked about earlier this month.

"I thought it was hilarious," Cohen told Yeas & Nays. "10 episodes; Madeleine Albright's gonna do the first show," he joked, adding that he'd also like to get Sarah Palin involved.

Cohen and fellow stars of cable shows ranging from "Swamp People" to "Property Brothers" walked the red carpet at a reception for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association on Tuesday night.

Susan Lucci, star of Lifetime's "Devious Maids," dropped in briefly before returning to George Washington University Hospital, where her husband was unexpectedly admitted that day. "He's in great hands and he's feeling better and he will be fine," she told reporters.

Ricky Schroder told us he's game for taking on another branch of the military after his Army reality show, "Starting Strong" (as a pilot, the Air Force tops his list).

And big D.C.-based TV fan Roland Martin surprised us by ranking Kelsey Grammer's political show "Boss" over "House of Cards."

"It got canceled, and it really hurt me," he said. ("Scandal" is still his favorite.)

Rasika West End was overflowing with D.C. newsmakers Tuesday night. First, President Obama's nominee for national security adviser, Susan Rice, dined at one table with her family. Then, at another table, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had a meal with PBS' Jim Lehrer. And finally, Shaun Donovan, secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, ate at a third table, a restaurant rep tells Yeas & Nays.

Also, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was dining down the street at the Oval Room with a lady friend. He arrived about 7:30 p.m. and stayed for about two hours, a restaurant rep reports.

Jennifer Lopez pitches new TV project in D.C.

Alicia Cohn

June 12, 12:00 AM June 12, 04:05 PM

Jennifer Lopez wants D.C. to know she's still "Jenny From the Block," seeing as the multitasking superstar mentioned growing up in the Bronx within the first three minutes of her interview onstage Wednesday at the Cable Show taking place at the Washington Convention Center.

"I grew up watching ['The Brady Bunch's'] Marcia Brady or ['The Cosby Show'] Huxtables, but I didn't really see myself," said Lopez, who said watching "West Side Story" once a year on Thanksgiving provided some inspiration.

"It represents something bigger than just television," she said of the Latino-targeting, English language nuvoTV channel she's helping launch in July. "It represents doing something for this community that has been so underserved for so long."

Lopez, who as chief creative officer is attending a wide range of program development and marketing meetings, said she constantly pushes for more music involvement, and is on the lookout for scripted programming. She will appear "probably sooner rather than later" in programing for the channel's launch.

She limited her remarks to the convention for broadband professionals to pitching the new cable channel, although Entertainment Weekly's Lynette Rice slyly raised the question of Lopez's possible return as a judge on "American Idol" by asking about her busy schedule.

"That's just a rumor!" Lopez protested.

By the numbers: Oprah donated how much to the Smithsonian?

Nikki Schwab

June 11, 12:00 AM June 11, 04:30 PM

$12 million -- That's the whopping number of dollars Oprah Winfrey handed over to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the museum announced Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. Winfrey's name will adorn a 350-seat theater in the new museum, which is slated to open in 2015 on the National Mall. She already donated $1 million to the project in 2007 and has served on the museum's advisory council since 2004.

James Cameron directs Congress: Fund deep sea exploration

Alicia Cohn

June 11, 12:00 AM June 11, 04:35 PM

Science and exploration "are the two things that I'm more excited about in the world," according to "Titanic" director James Cameron. "I do those movies to get a little money so I can go do exploration. That's the fun stuff."

The filmmaker brought his Deepsea Challenger submersible to the District on Tuesday, parking what he described as his "Kawasaki racing green sub" on the Senate side of Capitol Hill and then on Pennsylvania Avenue about two blocks from the White House.

"I'm gonna go make two more 'Avatar' movies, so I'm going to be busy for the next few years," Cameron said of his decision to donate the sub to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. On his way from California to deliver it to Massachusetts, he's making educational stops to pitch deep sea exploration.

"How is it that we've managed to get into the 21st century thinking that we've explored this whole planet, and we've missed an entire continent," he said. "The idea behind building this thing was to open that up."

Cameron, who says he has "always had an affinity for the ocean," commissioned the manned (or "personed," as Cameron pointedly noted, in deference to the many female oceanographers) submersible, which took seven years to build, and piloted it more than 35,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

"Sending a piloted vehicle down gets a lot more media and public attention," Cameron said at a Capitol Hill briefing. "I don't have a degree in any of the sciences or in engineering, but I didn't have a degree in filmmaking either, and that didn't stop me."

He told congressional staff members that he does not have a "specific call to action" on policy, but that it "boils down to funding" deep sea exploration. He and Dr. Susan Avery, director of Woods Hole, compared exploring the deeper ocean to exploring space -- but said the former has been neglected in comparison.

"As much as I love space exploration in the abstract, going to Mars is not speaking directly to our life-support systems," Cameron said. His first two speaking appearances were a warm-up for his appearance at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in the afternoon, where he made a similar pitch to some of the lawmakers holding the federal purse strings.