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Busboys and Poets is a full-service restaurant, bar, bookstore, coffee shop, and events venue in the Washington, D.C. area, founded in 2005 by Andy Shallal.The original Busboys and Poets is located at 14th & V streets in the U Street Corridor of Washington, D.C.
Founding Busboys and Poets. Political party. Democratic. Anas " Andy " Shallal (Arabic: أنس شلال) (born March 21, 1955) is an Iraqi-American artist, activist, philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of the Washington, D.C., area restaurant, bookstore, and performance venue Busboys and Poets.
Lift Off is a yellow, canopy like, abstract sculpture that sits on the corner of the CityVista building in front of Busboys and Poets. A welded (3/8-inch x 1/2-inch) aluminum plate with four crossbeams form the main skeleton of the work. Each crossbeam features a small floodlight on the end which illuminates the scallop like, origami inspired ...
All eight of Busboys and Poets’s locations throughout the D.C. area will show the presidential debate, with “drink specials all night, pre-debate remarks by organizers and post-debate ...
Split This Rock is a national nonprofit organization of poets, artists, and activists based in Washington, D.C. The organization's stated goals are: To celebrate the poetry of provocation and witness being written, published, and performed in the United States today; and to call poets to a greater role in public life and to equip them with the ...
Biography. Cezanne was born and raised in San Diego, California. [3] Cezanne has been on multiple National Poetry Slam teams including: Da Poetry Lounge, [4] San Diego Slam Team, [2] Oakland Slam Team Elevated! [5], Golden State Slam, [3] The Root Slam, [6] Berkeley Poetry Slam, [7] and Busboys and Poets Beltway [8] [9] She represented the Root ...
Jesse James Holland Jr. (born June 28, 1971) is an American journalist, author, television personality and educator. He was one of the first African American journalists assigned to cover the Supreme Court full-time, and only the second African American editor of The Daily Mississippian, the college newspaper of the University of Mississippi. [1]
This metal sculpture is placed on an air intake vent on the facade of the CityVista building just north of Busboys and Poets. At 25 feet by 25 feet; it consists of five panels which are made up of 80 custom CNC plasma cut metal sheets. It weighs about 3,500 pounds. Painted in shades of blue, the design represents exhaled breath on a cold day.