Xenophon Strategies

Katie Lane

Last Friday, October 5^th marked our fifth annual chili cook-off and it was as competitive as ever as ten staff members competed for the big prize, their name on a trophy and bragging rights for the rest of the year. Below are the top five memorable moments from this year’s event:

1. Matt Meenan bringing home the first place prize, for the second time in cook-off history with his chorizo...

Bob Brady

I won’t pretend to know much about Julia Child and her cooking. I can’t even claim to have seen the movie Julie & Julia, which earned Meryl Streep a Golden Globe, as well as an Academy Award nomination. What I do know though, is that today, August 15, the legendary Julia Child would be turning 100 years old. I also know that she was one of, if not the most influential chef and television personalities...

Blake Rhodes

As we settle in for our “once every four years” ritual of watching the Olympics over the next two weeks, we’ll be viewing the games differently than any other Olympiad in history: with an iPad or Tablet in one hand and the TV remote control in the other.

NBC, which has produced every summer Olympic games since Seoul in 1988 and every Winter Games since Salt Lake City in 2002, will utilize four networks on television—NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC and BRAVO...

Brandon Wright

Fisker, a luxury car manufacturer hopes the answer is yes. On June 22, Fisker ran several ads in The Wall Street Journal. The ads come after several recalls and embarrassing reviews of its only car on the market, the Karma, a luxury hybrid sports sedan. Since its founding in 2007, Fisker has...

Blake Rhodes

Last week, before Washington Nationals 19-year-old phenom, Bryce Harper, dismissed a Toronto reporter’s question about which Canadian beer he would celebrate a big hit with by saying, “that’s a clown question, bro,” you could hear one of the team’s media relations representatives stepping in to close down the line of questioning.  This brings the question, when is the right time for communications...