http://www.washingtonian.com/thismonth/capcom.html
BUSH TWINS ARE OUT ON THE TOWN BUT NOT ON THE WAGON
School’s out, and for the first time since Dad became president, there have been sightings of the First Twins in DC. Barbara and Jenna Bush, 20, have been partaking in the nightlife—and a few beers. One recent Thursday, the twins—who attend Yale and the University of Texas, respectively—were at Iota in Arlington with a pack of pals (a blur of Texas and Florida licenses) to see a folk band called Brown Couch. Band member Brian Smith is a friend of Barbara’s from Yale.
A source reports that Iota’s carding was tough that night, so “their fake IDs must be sweet.” When a bartender recognized the twins, he took their beers away. But the twins still stuck around.
The rest of the pair’s funapparently has been of the nonalcoholic variety. They’ve been spotted at the Sports Club/LA, taking part in Tuesday-night yoga classes with instructor Winnie Au, who practices a grueling version that one student jokingly calls “Gestapo yoga.”
No oneappeared to recognize the twins, who are trying to keep a low profile between their sophomore and junior years of college. And practicing yoga, even if it’s Au’s intense brand, is probably healthier than margaritas.
After a recent yoga class—Jenna clad in a white sports bra and bike shorts, Barbara in green shorts and a black tank top—the duo told friends they were heading to a showing of the racy road-trip movie Y Tu Mamá También.
James O’Brien, owner of Staccato, a piano bar on 18th Street in DC’s Adams Morgan, says Barbara and Jenna “have been here a couple of times,” quickly adding, “They were real good. Didn’t try and get served or anything like that.” It was Brown Couch, again, that drew the twins to Staccato.
Another source spotted them at the Black Cat club on 14th Street, although owner Dante Ferrando says he doesn’t recall seeing them. “It’s totally possible they were here, but I think I would have noticed the Secret Service,” says Ferrando. “I don’t want to get them in trouble.”
The twins have been seen dining at Café Jápone, on P Street, where they ate sushi, did karaoke with friends, and did not imbibe any sake. “I think the blond-haired one likes sushi,” says Sayuri Martinez, who has waited on the twins twice in the past month. “Yes, that one loves sushi. Especially California rolls.” Barbara, says Martinez, prefers chicken teriyaki.
Café Japone owner Kenji Akiho, who once tried to get a very embarrassed Jenna to sing karaoke to Madonna’s “La Isla Bonita,” says he has a photoof himself with the twins and offered to send it to The Washingtonian but then called back to say he decided against it.
“I have a 16-year-old daughter,” says Akiho, adding that he didn’t want the girls to be mad at him. “I know what it is like.”
According to New York magazine, Barbara is in New York City interning with Lela Rose, the fashion designer and longtime family friend who designed the outfits the twins wore to the inauguration.
The White House won’t comment on what either is doing this summer, saying that the twins are private citizens.
—COURTNEY RUBIN WITH RACHEL L. DODES
Then we have for corroboration a comment that the restaurant owner has a picture taken with them singing karaoke.
Does anyone on this thread ever bother to give the Bush twins the benefit of the doubt? Does anyone think that perhaps there are people who see the twins and make things up, knowing that the Washington papers will print anything they say? Does anyone wonder why Limbacher is consumed with covering stories like this?