We'll be having a Happy Hour this Thursday, July 27, starting around 6:30PM, at The 18th Street Lounge, in Washington, DC. The Lounge is located at 1212 18th Street, NW, near the intersection of Jefferson, 18th, and Connecticut (look for an unmarked door next to a mattress store and walk on up).
Among the reasons to celebrate:
--we're welcoming Katherine Mangu-Ward, late of The New York Times and The Weekly Standard, aboard as an associate editor (she was also a Reason summer intern in 2000). Read some of her previous work for Reason here and here.
--the promotion of Kerry Howley to associate editor. Read her work here.
--the publication of Reason's annual August-September issue, with its controversial special section, "Immigration Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever" that has been praised by the Wall Street Journal and already caused a couple dozen subscription cancellations.
--Reason being named one of "The 50 Best Magazines" by The Chicago Tribune for the third time in four years.
--first-place finishes in the 48th annual Southern California Journalism Awards by Reason's Ron Bailey, Matt Welch, and me, and a fistful of second-place and honorable mentions, too.
Other guest stars this time around include ABC News' Jake Tapper and the DC Examiner's and FishBowl DC's Patrick Gavin.